Dhaka, June 24 -- School and college heads will be held legally responsible if cheating is found at their institutions, Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon has warned.

He clarified the government's stance on Wednesday during an exchange of views with centre secretaries from the Dhaka, Mymensingh, Madrasa, and Technical Education Boards at Azimpur Girls' School and College ahead of the scheduled Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations.

Cheating has not vanished but shape-shifted into new forms, the minister said, likening it to a coronavirus variant and pointing to it as the driving force behind changes to The Public Examinations (Offences) Act, 1980.

"It has been passed in cabinet and will now go before pa...