Maintaining discipline, fairness and prestige of the high school graduation exam
Accordingly, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) said that it has received a request from the People's Committee of Tuyen Quang province to re-organize the Math exam for candidates at the Tuyen Quang Specialized High School exam site.
Regarding this matter, the Ministry of Education and Training requested the People's Committee of Tuyen Quang province to continue to direct functional agencies to urgently verify fully and objectively the nature of the case; clarify violations, and strictly handle organizations and individuals violating exam regulations and violating the law in accordance with regulations.
Based on the exam regulations, the inspection and handling results of Tuyen Quang Provincial People's Committee, the verification results of functional agencies and the comprehensive impact assessment of the case, the Ministry of Education and Training will decide on appropriate handling plans; ensuring objectivity, fairness, publicity, and compliance with the provisions of law; and ensuring humanity in education, the legitimate and lawful rights and interests of candidates, not allowing those with real ability to be affected in their learning opportunities, and maintaining discipline, fairness and prestige of the high school graduation exam.
Experts recommend handling options
Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Duc, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, said that in this case, it is necessary to maintain two parallel principles: It must be very strict to protect the fairness of the exam, but it must also be very cautious not to attribute collective fault to students when there is no official conclusion.
According to Mr. Duc, first of all, students must still be guaranteed the right to register their aspirations normally within the prescribed time because this is only a step to show the selection and admission, not the final admission decision.
If right now stop the right to register or handle students simultaneously just because their exam scores are suspected, it may affect the legitimate rights of students who do not violate" - Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Duc analyzed.
However, according to Mr. Duc, protecting student rights does not mean ignoring the principle of fairness with hundreds of thousands of other candidates across the country. Therefore, he proposed that the Ministry of Education and Training and functional agencies handle it in the direction of clearly classifying each case, not handling it generally.
In case there is evidence that candidates violated regulations, received answers, used materials, exchanged or had fraudulent acts, the results must be canceled according to regulations, and at the same time, those results must not be used for university admission. In case there is no basis for violation after verification, the results must be recognized and the rights of the students must be fully protected.
He suggested that, in the period when there is no final conclusion, a "temporary" technical mechanism can be applied: Candidates who are subject to verification can still register their aspirations, but the official admission results need to be linked to the condition that the exam scores have been validly verified. If the verification is completed before the time of virtual filtering and announcement of admission, it should be completely processed immediately on the system. If not completed, management agencies need to clearly notify universities to avoid a suspicious result affecting targets, benchmark scores and the rights of other candidates.
In the long term, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Duc believes that university admissions cannot be too heavily dependent on a single exam.
Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen post-inspection of exam data, compare exam scores with transcripts, mock exam results, and academic history; and at the same time expand independent and transparent competency assessment methods so that universities have more basis for selection.
But in the immediate future, the most urgent thing is to investigate and verify quickly, publicly, and in accordance with regulations, not to prolong it to the time of admission and enrollment, because the longer it is prolonged, the more anxiety it causes for students, parents, schools and society" - Mr. Duc stated.
Agreeing with this view, Mr. Dinh Duc Hien - CEO of FPT School Bac Giang said that if the students involved in the case in Tuyen Quang, if they are found to have violated, they must comply with the exam regulations and not recognize the exam results.
The important thing is that functional agencies need to soon determine whether these students have violated or not" - Mr. Hien said.
