CHINA: Ministry encourages independent entrance tests

China's Ministry of Education has promised to promote multiple measures to spot talented young people and send them for higher education, writes Chen Jia for China Daily. It has encouraged top universities to use independent examinations, besides the national one, to test students hoping to enter universities in 2012.

"Encouraging universities to select students based on independent criteria is an important supplement to the country's system of college entrance exams," said a notice released by the ministry last week.

The new move nullifies earlier rumours that China's educational authority will strangle the increasing number of university alliances holding independent university entrance examinations.
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