Formalism not helping students to prepare well
The Ministry of Education has confirmed that a contractor mistakenly deleted more than 10,000 online study histories — which universities could access to evaluate applicants — uploaded by 7,854 students from 81 senior and vocational high schools nationwide. Some worry that the full electronic portfolios cannot be recovered and say that the ministry should protect students’ rights by postponing a policy to use e-portfolios as a key criterion for university admission. Others say that the files simply reward formalism — benefiting those who have followed the bureaucratic process — and d...