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A Singaporean tutor has pleaded guilty to helping six Chinese students cheat in school exams in a «highly sophisticated» operation using video calling and skin-coloured earphones, court documents seen by Reuters on Wednesday showed. Private tuitioSingapore tutor faces jail for 'sophisticated' system to help students cheat
A Singaporean tutor has pleaded guilty to helping six Chinese students cheat in school exams in a «highly sophisticated» operation using video calling and skin-coloured earphones, court documents seen by Reuters on Wednesday showed. Private tuition is big business in Singapore with parents paying as much as S$700 (€431) for four-session courses and some tutors have become millionaires from the business. Singapore's reputation for a good education system attracts students from across Asia and beyond. Tan Jia Yan, 32, worked for a tuition centre that offered money-back guarantees to Chinese students if they failed to pass exams and get a place in a Singapore polytechnic. Tan pleaded guilty on Monday to 27 charges of cheating. Together with her colleagues, Tan helped attach «wearable Bluetooth devices» and skin-coloured earphones to the students which were connected to discreetly placed mobile phones when they sat their exams in 2016. Tan then sat the exams herself as a private candidate and used a camera phone attached to her chest to send video footage of the paper to her colleagues via Facebook's Facetime app . Her colleagues would then call the students to tell them the... Read more