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Cheats suspended from university entrance exams in Vietnam

More than 1,000 candidates have been suspended from the second phase of Vietnam's university entrance examinations after they were found to be cheating. Around 477,000 young people were registered in the second phase of the exam session to obtain a seat in one of the 74 universities and colleges in the country.

The first phase of the university selection took place on July 4, with more than 460,000 candidates participating. On Tuesday, Vietnamese police busted a network accused of recruiting high-flying students to take the place of around 50 other candidates. Each candidate paid to have someone else take the selection exams.

The network exchanged the candidates by doctoring their identification cards and university applications files. Around a million students take entrance exams to universities each year.

ABC Radio Australia - July 10, 2003