Due to widespread cheating during examinations, China is considering passing a law to better fight back, said an official with the Ministry of Education.

 

Dai Jiagan, director of the Ministry of Education's National Education Examination Authority (NEEA), said that examination security is of prime concern to Chinese people, since academic fairness is the bedrock of social equality.

 

However, those scoundrels determined to destroy this ideal are growing in number and are proving to be an innovative and well-organized foe.

 

The NEEA revealed that police spotted as many as eleven vehicles containing wireless communication devices outside a venue hosting a national college entrance examination last summer. In the vehicles, some "qiangshou" -- persons employed to assist students on exam papers -- were busy illicitly researching the answers and sending them through mobile phones.

 

However, police were unable to take any steps towards curbing the trend since no law governs this travesty of justice.

 

Exam papers for the national college entrance exam are regarded as confidential documents, but no regulations exist on a declassification date.

 

Unfortunately, cheating is not just limited to college entrance exams but is rampant across other national exams, such as college English tests, revealing the dire need for an examination security law.

 

(Xinhua News Agency April 10, 2007)