For those that ever doubted whether it was hard to get into college in China, the newest technology deployment in this arena has made it clear that the Asian country takes higher education quite seriously, as they've recently introduced a drone college entrance program to single out cheaters trying to get into universities in the country.
Though it seems for now the drone college entrance program is only starting out, Chinese officials spent hundreds of thousands of yuan in the project (tens of thousands of dollars), and now there's a six-propeller drone flying over testing centers in the Henan province city of Luoyang.
According to The Guardian, officials have released the drone college entrance program to monitor two different testing centers in the Chinese city for the first day of the college admissions exam, and the purpose of the drone is to scan signals set between devices that could have been smuggled into the site.
CNN reports that the measure to create the drone college entrance program came after high school students started coming up with increasingly more stylish ways to cheat on their college admissions exams, including selling answers, getting someone else to do the test for them and using wireless equipment to communicate between test-takers.
There's little doubt as to why authorities had to reach the measure to create a drone college entrance program in China, as the National College Entrance Exams, or gaoko, basically separate the successful from the unsuccessful in the country at a very young age; upon failure, Chinese youth has no other way to get into college and, as such, they face poorer job prospects for the rest of their lives.
The Washington Post reports that, last year, things got so bad with cheaters during the exam that more than 80 people (ranging from authorities to even parents) faced sanctions over this, even being dismissed from the Hubei province in Central China.
For now, only one province has adopted the drone college entrance program, though it may increase - and so far there are no reports of cheating this year.
