Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a series of amendments to a law on education banning the use of mobile phones during exams in schools and universities, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
The use of mobile phones during exams has been previously banned by normative acts issued by the Federal Education and Science Supervision Service.
The amended law allows the use of calculators during math and physics exams.
The law also stipulates requirements on the protection of information contained in the exam materials. The term "confidential information" has been changed to "restricted access information."
The new term allows the officials to take administrative action against those who intentionally disseminate this information.
Russia introduced the so-called Unified State Examination (USE) in secondary schools and most universities in 2009. Since then, each student has to pass several exams, including two obligatory (the Russian language and maths) ones, in order to get a secondary education certificate.
Universities are obliged to accept students on the basis of USE results, although some of them have maintained their right to carry out additional examinations.
MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti)
