Nigerian nurses slam council test cheating claims

A group of more than 100 Nigerian nurses have called on the Health Secretary to help them correct ‘a significant injustice’ after the nursing regulator accused them of cheating in tests to practise in the UK. The Guardian reports that they say their lives were destroyed when the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) accused them of fraud, having concluded that the computer-based tests in numeracy and clinical practice were completed implausibly quickly. The NMC last year said widespread fraud had been identified at the Yunnik Technologies test centre in Ibadan, Nigeria, which was overseen by the NMC’s test provider, Pearson Vue. The nurses claim that many retook the tests in the UK and completed them in similar times. They said they had no need to cheat as the tests were simple, and they called on the NMC to provide forensic evidence that they had cheated.

Full report in The Guardian