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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong> President Discussed College<br />

Entrance Exam Reform with Presidents<br />

from Russian Key Universities<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2006--10—12<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=161005504<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, Oct. 12th, 2006: At the press conference <strong>of</strong> "Chinese and<br />

Russian Key <strong>University</strong> President Forum" which was held on Oct 12th, <strong>PKU</strong><br />

President Xu Zhihong talked about the national college entrance exam with<br />

presidents from Russian key universities.<br />

"The basic solution to the fierce competition for the National College Entrance Exam<br />

(NCEE) is to increase excellent education resources." Xu said so in answering a<br />

reporter‘s question about the reform <strong>of</strong> NCEE.<br />

As what president Xu pointed out, the reform <strong>of</strong> NCEE is being carried out in different<br />

ways all over China. In his opinion, there were two standards in measuring the<br />

rationality <strong>of</strong> the methods, one is if they lightened the burden <strong>of</strong> students in primary<br />

and junior or high school, the other is if they helped to pick out talented high school<br />

student. He admitted that there are certain aspects for improvement about NCEE,<br />

and the basic solution to the problems was to increase excellent high education<br />

resource and construct a group <strong>of</strong> high quality universities.<br />

President Satophernick from Moscow State <strong>University</strong> agreed with President Xu and<br />

gave his own opinions about the situation in Russia. He said:"Universities have the<br />

obligation to educate the talented people, and losing even one talented person is the<br />

disaster <strong>of</strong> a nation." President Satophernick said nowadays the way <strong>of</strong> enrollment in<br />

Russia is through both national unified exam and self-enrollment by each university.<br />

He believed that the key to a rational Entrance Exam system is to give every student<br />

equal opportunity, based on which Russia will finally construct a complete Higher<br />

Education Entrance Exam system.<br />

President Digunski from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> New Siberia also said that in his university<br />

students who got higher records also give better performance than others, but it<br />

didn‘t mean that faculty members totally agreed on the present national unified<br />

exam. It was suggested that students applying for arts major should not go through<br />

the unified exam, and the same could be applied to the field <strong>of</strong> biology and physics<br />

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