Hong Kong’s examination authority U-turn lets some candidates sit university entrance exams in mainland China
- Examination authority to set up two assessment centres to let 110 candidates sit university entrance exams on mainland
- It earlier insisted all candidates had to travel to Hong Kong for the exams
Hong Kong’s examination authority will allow some pupils to sit their university entrance exams in mainland China – a U-turn on previous policy after security fears over the transport and storage of exam papers were resolved.
The Examination and Assessment Authority on Tuesday said it would set up two university entrance assessment centres on the mainland for the first time to let about 110 pupils from Shenzhen Hong Kong Pui Kiu College Longhua Xinyi School and the Affiliated School of JNU for Hong Kong & Macau Students to sit the exams across the border.
The authority said exam papers would be transported by professional companies and monitored by a CCTV system. The exams would be cancelled if a major leak of questions was detected.
“We have had to sort out many minor details during the process, such as ensuring storage of exam papers in the two schools are secured,” an authority spokesman said. “We have asked them to make improvements over the past month.”
The authority said in early January pupils from the two mainland schools would have to travel to Hong Kong to sit the exams because the establishment of assessment centres across the border needed further discussions.
