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| Wednesday, 12 August 2009 | |
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Students from poor families will likely find it increasingly difficult to enter state-owned universities in the coming years, as the number of seats offered through special entrance schemes, which require higher admission fees, are steadily increasing.
According to Vice Rector of ITB Adang Surachman, Overseer of Academic Affairs, the high admission fees applied to the special entrance test scheme did not seem to influence applicants' preference for the special test over the regular one.
Meanwhile, Asep Gana Suganda, secretary of the local committee of the 2009 university entrance tests (SNMPTN) said the committee only printed 28,000 application forms because of the increasing trend of students choosing to take special entrance tests over the national SNMPTN test. He also added that the number of senior high school graduates taking regular university entrance tests continues to decrease. In order to prevent the committee from experiencing the same financial losses we incurred last year, only fewer application forms were printed.
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Source: Jakarta Post, Wednesday 12 August 2009 |
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