Posted on 04/22/2019 2:08:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
April 22 (UPI) -- More than 100 university students in Vietnam are accused of manipulating their test scores in order to gain admission to the country's top colleges, according to a South Korean press report.
Television network KBS reported Monday from Vietnam public anger is rising following revelations 108 students used their elite connections to gain entry into top schools.
A total of 53 students in the group have voluntarily dropped out following the charges, or have been expelled from their institutions, the report said, quoting local Vietnamese news sources.
All students accused of cheating in last year's June entrance exam hail from one of two provinces: Hoa Binh and Son La, both located in the northwest region of Vietnam, about 2-6 hours from Hanoi, the capital.
The students were enrolled at Vietnam's most prestigious schools: National Economics University, Foreign Trade University and Hanoi Medical University.
A total of 16 Vietnamese education administration officials who abetted the students have been arrested and were taken into custody.
The students were helped from the inside; students' answers and scores were saved to two separate CDs in Hoa Binh and Son La. One CD reportedly contained the students' responses, the second CD contained the scores, but the original data was tampered with before they were processed for final scoring, according to KBS.
The results were inflated test scores. Students' test grades rose by as much as 90 percent following the manipulation.
The charges come after parents at the high schools where the accused students were enrolled complained about "incredibly high scores" for "mediocre students" whose parents were local senior officials with people's committees in the region.
The Economist recently reported Vietnam has an outstanding state-school system for a developing country, but also has one of the fastest-growing private education sectors that encourage students to attend after-hours cram schools in preparation for tests.
The country spent about $9 billion for private education in 2018, according to The Economist.
Just goes to show that parents are the same all over the world.................
Probably banned...................
They did a survey across different countries amongst the general population, and it turned out, at least amongst the common people, that Vietnam was the most pro-capitalist country on the planet.
I think it’s only a matter of time before change happens.
You take a Freedom Bird into DaNang, now, and EVERYONE is wearing a baseball cap, American style advertising is everywhere... It's almost as if we'd won.
In Vietnam the guilty are sold for parts right?
Or is that China?
I found him back then, when "Back To School" was in the theater. I've never bothered with HBO, so I'd never seen him, or Dice, or a ton of others who had the specials. Now of course we have loads of those, uh, available for, uh, free, on YouTube.
China....................;;
Rodney: “What’s your major?”
Co-ed: “Poetry.”
Rodney: “Maybe you can help me straighten out my Longfellow.”
There have been big scandals in China as well, it’s a pretty well known fact that there is a lot of test cheating going on outside of the US
Special Agent Orange that was me!
“You only cheat at American exam!”
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