Two held for altering college applications
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July 21, 2012, Saturday
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POLICE have detained two people who allegedly tampered with students' college applications to help a private college boost recruitment following China's national college entrance exams.
The two, a man surnamed Li and a woman surnamed Zheng, were apprehended on Wednesday and Thursday after secretly editing online lists created by 14 prospective college students from Zhoukou, Henan Province, local media said yesterday.
The students, all from the Zhoukou City Medical School, completed an entrance examination for medical college in June. They, like nearly all other Chinese high school grads, participated in a selection process in which they prioritized their first, second and third choices for college, with lists for the colleges posted online.
The 14 students discovered in early July that the top schools on their lists had all been changed to "Shandong Modern Vocational College," a university that admitted hiring Li and Zheng as temporary recruiters.
Li and Zheng told police the school offered them 550 yuan per student for successfully recruiting new students.
Students and parents said the Zhoukou school posted the students' information, including names, ID numbers, exam registration numbers and passwords for filling out their online lists on a school bulletin board on June 27.
Some of them saw three people in charge of SMVC recruitment, including Li and Zheng, removing sheets of paper containing the information from the board.
Officials with the Henan provincial admissions office said recruitment for vocational colleges will start on August 2, before which they will make a decision on the matter based on police investigation. Zou Jianguo, vice president of the SMVC, said the college has assigned a vice president to join investigators.
Zou said Li and Zheng, who were both students at SMVC, were privately hired by college admissions worker Li Zhizhen, but it is still unknown whether Li Zhizhen was involved in the tampering.
"The college will give penalties according to national law and college regulations if any employee is found to be involved," said Zou.
Experts believe the illegal recruitment methods have highlighted the economic difficulties that many private colleges are encountering.
The two, a man surnamed Li and a woman surnamed Zheng, were apprehended on Wednesday and Thursday after secretly editing online lists created by 14 prospective college students from Zhoukou, Henan Province, local media said yesterday.
The students, all from the Zhoukou City Medical School, completed an entrance examination for medical college in June. They, like nearly all other Chinese high school grads, participated in a selection process in which they prioritized their first, second and third choices for college, with lists for the colleges posted online.
The 14 students discovered in early July that the top schools on their lists had all been changed to "Shandong Modern Vocational College," a university that admitted hiring Li and Zheng as temporary recruiters.
Li and Zheng told police the school offered them 550 yuan per student for successfully recruiting new students.
Students and parents said the Zhoukou school posted the students' information, including names, ID numbers, exam registration numbers and passwords for filling out their online lists on a school bulletin board on June 27.
Some of them saw three people in charge of SMVC recruitment, including Li and Zheng, removing sheets of paper containing the information from the board.
Officials with the Henan provincial admissions office said recruitment for vocational colleges will start on August 2, before which they will make a decision on the matter based on police investigation. Zou Jianguo, vice president of the SMVC, said the college has assigned a vice president to join investigators.
Zou said Li and Zheng, who were both students at SMVC, were privately hired by college admissions worker Li Zhizhen, but it is still unknown whether Li Zhizhen was involved in the tampering.
"The college will give penalties according to national law and college regulations if any employee is found to be involved," said Zou.
Experts believe the illegal recruitment methods have highlighted the economic difficulties that many private colleges are encountering.
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