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Osaka high school in shady statistics shuffle
An Osaka city high school made one of their A-students take a large number of entrance exams to prestigious private universities in order to boost their statistics of the number of students that have gone on to higher education, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported Friday.
At Osaka Gakugeki High School in Sumoyshi Ward, Osaka City, a highly gifted student who had expressed an interest in studying science at a national university was asked by the high school if he would mind taking tests at other universities as well, at the school’s discretion. The student agreed. The school then let the student take a total of 73 entrance exams to several different faculties at the four most prestigious private universities in the region - Kansai University, Kwansei Gakuin University, Doshisha University and Ritsumeikan university.
The student went on and performed remarkably well on every single test and got accepted to all 73 faculties. The school then made it official that in 2006, 144 of their students had been accepted to the four prestigious private universities, when in fact more than half of that number was based on the one student’s 73 successful exams.
The examination fees, which stopped at an impressive 1.3 million yen, were paid in their entirety by the high school. Additionally, the school paid the student 50,000 yen after the results had been presented, and presented him a wristwatch worth several tens of thousands yen.
When Yomiuri asked the school’s head master for a comment, he replied: “I can’t deny that the amount of our students that have went on to higher education is one of our school’s appeals, but as long as other schools inflate their numbers, our school alone can’t afford to present the real numbers.“
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) is currently investigating the matter.
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