Testing times for nonresident families - Topic - 解析“随迁子女就地高考”之难 - 本期话题

Nonresident parents in Beijing have been signing a petition against a policy that will continue to limit their children’s eligibility to take the national college entrance exam in the city. For the past three decades in China, high school graduates could only take the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, in their home provinces. That’s where their hukou, or household permits, were registered. However, 2011 statistics show that one in six Chinese citizens no longer lives where their hukou was registered. Having to return to one's home province in order to be eligible to take the national college entrance exam has created a huge problem for hundreds of thousands of Chinese families.

北京的非户籍家长近日联名向教育部递交了一份诉讼书，反对北京市刚刚出台的异地高考方案。在过去的三十年里，中国的高中毕业生只能在其家乡省份参加高考，即他们的户口所在地。然而，2011年的数据显示，每六名中国公民中就有一名不在其户口所在地居住。必须回到原籍才有资格参加高考，给中国千百万个家庭带来了巨大的问题。