[Epoch Times News on June 8, 2021](Interviewed by Epoch Times reporters Gu Xiaohua and Luo Ya) On June 4th, students from independent colleges and universities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang held rallies, sit-ins, and parades on campus. Refuse to change the nature of running an independent college to a vocational undergraduate. Under the pressure of the student movement, Zhejiang and Jiangsu Education Group issued announcements one after another, announcing an emergency call to stop the merger, and the student protests achieved an initial victory. However, the protests of thousands of students from North China College of Nanjing Normal University in Jiangsu Province were violently suppressed by the police, and many students are currently missing.
Independent colleges in Jiangsu and Zhejiang broke out one after another resistance
The Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China issued a policy requiring independent colleges and vocational colleges to be merged into vocational and technical universities, triggering the recent wave of students in many provinces in mainland China.
On June 4 (“June 4th”) the day of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Student Movement, student protests took place in Zhijiang College of Zhejiang University of Technology. They collectively raised banners on campus to protest. “The exemption of discussion”, “Zhijiang students never bow their heads, changing their names is not acceptable”, “30,000 tuition fees, 550 cut-off, not for transfer to junior college”, etc., they demanded “transferred, publicly run general version, rejected job title “.
At the same time, the parents collectively went to the Zhejiang Education Bureau to express the same demands as the students.
On June 5th, students from Hangzhou Business School of Zhejiang Gongshang University marched and protested on the campus. They all held umbrellas and shouted slogans like “Reject my job title, return my job title” and so on. The parade was mighty.
The Hangzhou Business School recruited the police to block the students from the school gate and prevent the supportive parents from entering the school. Many parents scolded the school outside the gate of the campus.
On June 6, a female student trapped in the dormitory expressed dissatisfaction that male teachers broke into the female dormitory at will, and there were many male teachers and employees outside the dormitory who monitored the behavior of students; when they ate out of the dormitory, they had to be viewed by the security guards. signature.
The Zhejiang Independent Colleges participating in this wave of student protests include the School of Information Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University, the Oriental College of Zhejiang University of Finance, Hangzhou Business School of Zhejiang Gongshang University, and the School of Modern Science and Technology of China Jiliang University.
On June 6, student protests also occurred in the North China College of Nanjing Normal University, Jiangsu Province. The school girl Wu Hua (pseudonym) introduced to The Epoch Times on the evening of June 7 that this protest began on the evening of June 6. Many students gathered at the entrance of the teaching building, demanding an explanation from the leaders, and shouting at the protest site ” Slogans such as “Reject the job title, return my original job”. The protest continued until the early morning of June 8.
She introduced that the total number of students in the school is eight to nine thousand, and there are estimated to be three to four thousand people on the spot. Students also protested peacefully in two places, the north gate of the school and the library.
Student Wu also introduced that a lot of police officers arrived at the school last night, stationed inside and outside the school, about 200 people. “The school gate was closed this morning to prevent us from going out. Then the students, the auxiliary police and the security guards began to push. The auxiliary police treated individual students violently, drew water at our students, and pushed us to the ground. Then, A lot of auxiliary police dragged a person to a place, and some students were bruised and bleeding on their heads. No students were arrested, but some were locked up in the classroom.”
She also said, “We don’t necessarily make trouble when we go out of school. They shouldn’t restrict our freedom.”
Thousands of students persisted until the early morning of June 8. Wu said that after the authorities issued a red-head document to stop the transfer, a large number of special police rushed into the school at 4 am on the 8th, beating students and spraying pepper water. The campus was closed and many students lost contact. The authorities threatened the students on the grounds that the video was streamed to the Internet. Wu said that none of them took drugs (the police suppressed the students by taking drugs), nor did any foreign forces intervene.
The merger policy of 186 independent colleges in mainland China is nearby. Students from various schools send petitions
On the evening of June 3, Zhijiang College’s official Weibo post stated that the college is currently conducting research and investigations on various transfer paths according to the national and provincial work arrangements for the transfer of independent colleges, and no specific plan has been formed. Please also Make more suggestions. But the Weibo closed comments, leaving only the school mailbox.
At present, there are still 186 independent colleges like this in the mainland as of late January this year.
According to the “Implementation Plan on Accelerating the Promotion of the Transition of Independent Colleges” issued by the Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China on May 18 last year, each independent college is required to formulate a transition work plan before the end of last year, and at the same time promote a group of independent colleges to realize the transition, and Mentioned three conversion paths, including conversion to private operation, conversion to public operation, and termination of schooling. Among them, the sub-independent colleges were paired and merged with higher vocational colleges and colleges, and they were transferred to vocational and technical universities.
According to the official microblog of “University News” on June 4, many students expressed dissatisfaction with the “transfer of Hangzhou Business School of Zhejiang Gongshang University”, and similar situations existed in many schools. The Weibo also attached various petitions and comments from students.
The student petition puts forward 5 reasons for refusal to transfer, including the admission score of 550 points in the year; the tuition fee charged by the school is about 30,000 per year and 120,000 for four years; but after graduation, the student status of Xuexin.com is first general undergraduate and then vocational education. Undergraduate. This has a serious impact on the future employment of students, and also affects students’ entrance examinations for postgraduates. Zhejiang Gongshang University and Hangzhou School of Business can no longer be found on the App.
The petition letter also made it clear that if the school fails to give a reasonable solution, it will initiate a strike. If the student transfers successfully during the summer vacation, the student directly refuses to pay the tuition and will adopt the legal right of assembly and demonstration. If you transfer from an undergraduate to a junior college, this degree is not worth it.
On June 7, a petition from North China College of Nanjing Normal University in Jiangsu Province put forward three requests. 1. The information of graduates on Xuexin.com will always be ordinary undergraduates, not vocational undergraduates. It is the same now, and will never change; 2. Stop the transition from an ordinary undergraduate to a vocational undergraduate from North China College of Nanjing Normal University. If not, either stop running the school or transfer to an ordinary undergraduate; 3. Please ask the education department at the provincial level or above Issue a red-head document for us to confirm the validity of the above two requests.
Zhejiang stops “transferring” Jiangsu to follow up and issue red header documents
Under the pressure of this wave of students in Zhejiang, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education issued a notice on June 5: “After a research decision, our province has completely suspended the merger of independent colleges and vocational colleges and converted to vocational and technical universities.”
On June 6, Zhejiang Gongshang University also issued an announcement stating that the school has decided not to merge Hangzhou Business School of Zhejiang Gongshang University with higher vocational colleges and turn it into a vocational and technical university.
When the Paper reported the two documents, it did not mention the student protests in Zhejiang.
On the evening of the 7th, the “Global Times” issued a one-sentence news with a one-sentence announcement picture: “On June 7, the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education issued an announcement that Jiangsu Province suspended the merger and transfer of independent colleges and higher vocational colleges. jobs.”
At present, at least the students of independent colleges in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces have won the resistance, and the protest has ended with the official withdrawal order.
Student Wu said: “Turning a bachelor degree into a vocational undergraduate degree is no different from a junior college degree. The gold content of the diploma will definitely be reduced. In the future, we will have a great impact on postgraduate entrance examinations or job hunting. This is what we are not satisfied with.”
A fresh graduate student Li told The Epoch Times, “As a student who has taken the college entrance examination, I can fully understand the feelings of the students from these independent colleges. After all, they got the corresponding scores and paid more than the average public school. Students have more tuition fees, but their degrees are downgraded from undergraduates to vocational undergraduates. The public examinations are not good, the postgraduate entrance examinations are restricted, and the job search will be discriminated against as vocational school students. Now there is so much pressure on work and college, and this kind of thing happens again. It can be said that it is worse for them, and I will do my best to fight for me.”
He said: “The fundamental reason why things are making such a big mess now is that the administrative and educational system under the CCP is accustomed to changing day by day and doing one-size-fits-all changes. At present, work and postgraduate entrance examinations in the society are highly linked to academic qualifications, which stimulates students’ academic qualifications. Just stepping on the bottom line of the students, this kind of contradiction is irreconcilable.”
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