Exams at elementary schools<\/p>\n
JAKARTA: Beginning next month the government will publicize a
\nprogram, which entrusts each elementary school to run its own
\nexams after it eliminated the national exams for the schools
\n(Ebtanas), an official said.<\/p>\n
\"We will start getting the word out on the new exam structure
\nnext month. We are now preparing various related regulations with
\nregard to the government's decision to drop Ebtanas, including
\nautonomy for each school to do its own exams. The minister of
\neducation and the directorate general (of the elementary and
\nsecondary schools) will send around information packets,\"
\nDirector General of the Elementary and Secondary Education
\nIndrajati said in Magelang, Central Java, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Each school is expected to start doing its own exams beginning
\nin July, he said.<\/p>\n
Minister of National Education Abdul Malik Fajar revealed last
\nmonth the government's plan to eliminate Ebtanas for elementary
\nschools in relation to the nine-year compulsory education
\nprogram, and will also reduce some of the cumbersome bureaucratic
\nprocedures for the junior high exams.<\/p>\n
The plan to scrap Ebtanas has received a thumbs-up from both
\nteachers and education experts, pointing out that the existing
\nsystem is redundant, misleading and prone to corruption.<\/p>\n
The government's idea is expected to entrust each school to
\nrun its own exams and should empower both the teachers and the
\nschools as the national exam was not a good indicator of the
\nquality of the education program or curriculum.<\/p>\n
It was instead turned into a cash-cow for unscrupulous
\nadministrators, wherein students were forced to pay exam \"fees\"
\nin order to pass the test, enabling them to go on to junior high
\nschool. -- Antara<\/p>",
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