The Chronicle News Blog: Venezuelan Government Eliminates Universities’ Entrance Examinations
Bogotá, Colombia — Venezuelan public universities’ individual entrance examinations will be eliminated, the government’s National University Council decided on Thursday night against the wishes of many at the nation’s leading colleges.
University officials and student leaders have said that eliminating the tests will lower academic quality and admit far more students than the universities can handle. For their part, government officials argue that the universities’ entrance exams discriminate against lower-income students, who come from public high schools and generally receive poorer educations than wealthier students who attend private high schools.
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