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Title:: The Constitutional Regulation over the Policy of Awarded Points in China’s College Admission System

Keywords:: awarded points in college admission; administrative permission; autonomy in admission; equal right to education; freedom of scientific research

Abstract:: The policy of awarded points in college admission concerns millions of people. The constitutional basis for the right to application for admission to universities, which is often mistaken for the basic right to education, is actually the basic right of equality. Although colleges and universities are controlled by the government in the process of admission, the autonomy which they exercise in admission is academic power that comes from the freedom of doing scientific research. The transfer of the candidates’ files from the government to colleges is administrative permission, which lacks legal basis and thus should not exist any longer. Building high level universities in different provinces is the only basic road to ensuring both equality and the freedom of scientific research. If universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University and some popular degree programs abolish the system of awarding bonus points and the compensatory bonus points do not play a decisive role in admission, we can balance the equality and the freedom of scientific research in China’s universities.