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China students hold principal hostage in protest
Thousands of protesting students held a school principal hostage over fears their degrees would be devalued, Chinese police said on Tuesday.
The protests were over a plan to merge a Nanjing college in Jiangsu province with a vocational institute - which are seen as less prestigious.
Some of the students were reportedly injured as police allegedly used batons and pepper spray on them.
Such protests are rare in China where mass movements are controlled.
Danyang city police said in a statement on Tuesday that undergraduates at Nanjing Normal University s Zhongbei College in Jiangsu province had gathered from Sunday and detained the 55-year-old principal on campus for more than 30 hours.
Chinese police violently suppress students protest against transfer of undergraduate colleges ANI | Updated: Jun 09, 2021 20:50 IST
Beijing [China], June 9 (ANI): As part of China s education reform , several college students in the Jiangsu province were violently suppressed when they protested against the transfer of their undergraduate colleges to vocational undergraduate institutions.
According to local reports, students from five Chinese schools issued a joint statement and launched large-scale protests after at least five independent colleges were transferred from undergraduates to so-called vocational undergraduates . The video footage of the protests showed the police using arms and the arrests of several students.
According to the statement issued by the Jiangsu Educational Institution on June 7, it is necessary to explore the in-province independent colleges of school-in-charge under the Independent College Transfer Plan
Chinese police violently suppress students protest
10 Jun 2021, 03:27 GMT+10
Beijing [China], June 9 (ANI): As part of China s education reform , several college students in the Jiangsu province were violently suppressed when they protested against the transfer of their undergraduate colleges to vocational undergraduate institutions.
According to local reports, students from five Chinese schools issued a joint statement and launched large-scale protests after at least five independent colleges were transferred from undergraduates to so-called vocational undergraduates . The video footage of the protests showed the police using arms and the arrests of several students.
According to the statement issued by the Jiangsu Educational Institution on June 7, it is necessary to explore the in-province independent colleges of school-in-charge under the Independent College Transfer Plan issued by the National Education Bureau in May.