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2007.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Based on a review of the history and current circumstances of the preferential policies applied to ethnic minority students in college/university enrolment, the present paper justifies these policies from a social perspective and provides an evaluation of their impact. The paper concludes that these preferential policies function as an effective guarantee of equal access to education rights, opportunities and resources for those ethnic minority students whose educational performance is comparatively poor owing to external constraints from society, family and school. This conclusion applies in particular to the 'lowering admission scores policy' through which ethnic minority students can be admitted to higher education with lower scores than those belonging to all but a few categories of Han students.
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