Tue, 05 Jul 1994

To catch a computer whiz

From Jayakarta

The pooled entrance examination to the state-run universities has ended. However, the problem of "jockeys", in which abler students illicitly take the seats of actual high-school graduate applicants in the examination (presumably to increase the likelihood of passing), has apparently not been solved.

Interestingly, the prestigious Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) has reported the most cases of jockeying for years. How come? Minister of Education and Culture Wardiman Djojonegoro himself had reportedly thrown up his hands from trying to overcome the problem.

Here I would like to point out that most likely it was because more and more students at the famed ITB have become computer whizzes. If I am right I would recommend that to catch these jockeys a special computer program has to be applied. Why not send the ITB teachers who ought to be brighter in computer matters than these mere-student jockeys to the job?

The Ministry can surely do that?

IWAN

Cileungsi, Bogor

West Java