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University denies place to student over ethnicity lies
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-07-02 20:08 He Chuanyang was one of the 31 students involved in the ethnicity cheating scandal, uncovered by city authorities in mid June upon citizens' complaints, but the other students' names were not published. The cheating scandal has caused Lu to be temporarily removed from her post as deputy head of the CPC Wushan County Committee's organization department. The boy's father, He Yeda, has also been removed from his post as head of Wushan County's college admission office. The couple's friend Wan Minqiang, now chairman of the county science commission, was also sacked for helping with the cheating when he was head of the county's ethnic and religious affairs bureau. He Chuanyang has stayed out of the public eye since the scandal was revealed. His parents said he was "saddened and speechless" at Beijing University's denial. He can still apply to other universities. However Chongqing education authorities did not say Thursday whether the boy would be disqualified altogether for this year's admission. "Admission would start on July 9, and by then you'll find the answer," an official said on condition of anonymity. He's mother, meanwhile, said she would be very happy if other universities, either in the interior regions or Hong Kong, would admit the boy. China's national college admission test, or "gao kao", has been a fierce competition since it was resumed in 1977 after the 10-year Cultural Revolution. Though it's easier nowadays to enter college -- with 10.2 million candidates competing for 6.29 million seats this year, compared with 5.7 million for 270,000 places in 1977, competition remains white-hot as most students eye top universities. As a result, a string of scandals about cheating, leaking exam papers or even buying into universities have been reported in recent years. The Ministry of Education said 2,219 students were found cheating during this year's exam alone. Last month, four people in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region were sentenced to three to five years for selling falsified papers to parents and bribing police officers into changing students ethnic status to minorities.
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