Thief has field day as students sit examination

At least eight students at Ghent University in Belgium had personal belongings stolen as they sat an examination, writes Alan Hope for The Brussels Times.

Among the property stolen were jackets and backpacks, as well as laptops containing irreplaceable class notes. The students concerned were in the bio-engineering sciences department at the Coupure in Ghent.

The university administration said that nobody had told the students not to bring personal belongings into the exam room – although such a thing would appear to be normal to avoid the possibility of cheating, for example by smuggling in notes. The room where the belongings were left is not covered by CCTV.
Full report on The Brussels Times site