With competition fierce for admission to college in China, students are being monitored by video cameras while writing national college entrance examinations to deter them from cheating.
China’s national College Entrance Examinations (CEE) are the largest set of tests in the world, and determine the future of thousands of students and their families.
A record breaking 10.5 million students are registered for the exams this year but only 5.9 million of these students will be eligible for college.
China’s Education Examinations Instructive Center has been using video cameras to monitor the CEEs in 31 provinces this year. In 16 of these provinces, including Tibet and Xinjiang, the video surveillance is in real-time.
Parents waiting outside the testing site June 7, 2008. AFP/Getty Images
