http://edu.qq.com/a/20070707/000002.htm
The Ministry of Education recently issued a notice requiring that freshmen entering university in 2007 and thereafter be guaranteed accommodation arranged by class. In principle, students are not permitted to rent housing off campus on their own.
According to reports, some universities in China do not arrange students to live in dormitories and apartments by class cohort. There are also some universities that assign housing according to students’ financial circumstances.
For this reason, the notice requires universities in all regions to conscientiously implement the requirement of arranging housing by class, and to make full use of the period when graduates leave campus and freshmen arrive to do a proper job of adjusting student dormitories. For students in other grades who are enrolled and not living by class, plans are to be formulated so that class-based accommodation will be gradually achieved within three years.
The notice requires universities in all regions to eliminate housing arrangements based on students’ financial circumstances. At the same time, a sound system of assistance policies for students from families with financial difficulties is to be established and improved.
For students renting housing off campus for special reasons, the Ministry of Education requires universities in all regions to go through the relevant filing procedures, strengthen information communication, and strictly manage education.
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In some other news items I saw reasons given for why off-campus renting should be prohibited; the main reason seems to be that if students rent off campus it encourages student couples to XXX. In fact, this reason is simply laughable. Because the ban mainly can only target those living off campus for a long time; couples going to a hotel now and then to get a room and do something certainly cannot be controlled. At worst, they can get a room during the day and come back at night. Not to mention that in a place like Peking University, there is no need to rent any room at all—just pull a curtain around the bed in the dormitory and you can do whatever you want; what does that have to do with whether renting is banned or not? Then the second reason often mentioned is that renting off campus easily leads to neglecting studies, getting addicted to the internet, and so on. That is even more nonsense—those who are going to fall into decline will fall into decline whether they rent or not; rather than falling into decline in the dormitory and affecting one’s roommates, it is better to go out alone and take care of oneself.
Aside from issuing contradictory policies from one day to the next, the people in the Ministry of Education don’t understand anything else. I won’t complain too much about that either. In any case, such a “principle” is at least being ignored at Peking University.
Latest comments
- Yi Wu
2007-07-09 21:59:29
Did they say you can’t go home and live there?
This article is really funny… - mist
2007-07-09 22:24:14 anonymous 124.17.16.80
Generational gap, generational gap
They just can’t understand it~
Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.
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