Over 82,000 pass university admission tests<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
A total 82,190 senior high school graduates secured a place at 49
\nstate universities across the country, the national selection
\ncommittee announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The qualifiers account for 4.1 percent of 337,707 students,
\nincluding 29 disabled entrants, who sat the national admission
\ntests on July 14 and July 15, the tests taking place
\nsimultaneously across the country?.<\/p>\n
Secretary of the selection committee Soesmalijah Soeswondo
\nsaid the results of the entrance tests would be announced on
\nFriday via national print media and the committee's website
\n(www.spmb.or.id).<\/p>\n
She said that, unlike in previous years, the committee would
\nopen information counters at the University of Indonesia (UI) in
\nDepok, West Java, the Jakarta State University in Rawamangun,
\nEast Jakarta, and the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic Institute
\nin Ciputat, South Jakarta. Previously, a counter was set up at
\nthe Senayan sports complex, Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of National Education announced in June that
\nthere were 1,06 million senior high school graduates, down from
\naround 1.1 million the previous year.<\/p>\n
Soesmalijah said the number of participants in the national
\nuniversity admission tests this year fell by 4.2 percent, from
\n350,306 in 2003, due to a decline in the number of high school
\ngraduates and because more state universities also organized
\ntheir own entrance tests.<\/p>\n
The individual selection was carried out before the national
\nfinal exams for senior high school students. Those who were
\nselected were required to pay much more than those who passed the
\nnational admission tests.<\/p>\n
UI, for example, admitted 20 percent of its new students
\nthrough its own selection tests. They have been charged from Rp
\n25 million (US$2,717) to Rp 75 million in entrance fees.<\/p>\n
The fees for new students selected via national admission
\ntests range from Rp 5 million to Rp 25 million, effective this
\nyear.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of UI students staged a protest on Monday at the
\nuniversity management's decision to raise tuition fees.<\/p>\n
Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Yogyakarta, is accepting only 18
\npercent of new students via national admission tests this year.
\nThe remainder have been admitted through its privately run
\nselection program, which required new students to pay as much as
\nRp 100 million.<\/p>\n
Both UI and UGM are among five state universities that have
\nchanged their status to autonomous institutions, which allows
\nthem to raise education funds from the public and manage the
\nfunds themselves. Consequently, the government has cut and will
\ngradually scrap its subsidy to them.<\/p>\n
The national committee in charge of university admission tests
\nallowed 3,000 high school graduates from poor families across the
\ncountry to sit the tests free of charge this year.<\/p>",
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