Elementary and junior high schools should stop evaluating students' academic performance in relation to others and instead use an "absolute criteria," an advisory panel to the education minister proposed Monday.
The proposal concerns curriculum guidance records of students' academic achievements and reports on these records used as recommendations to other schools.
The school records are invariably used as criteria when high schools select applicants. They have often been a source of conflict with teachers when students fail to gain admittance to their preferred schools.