Three high-school students from Shandong province filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing the Chinese government of discriminating against students from some provinces in the process of deciding who is eligible for higher education.
The Beijing People’ s High Court has yet to decide if it will accept the case, according to the Commoner’s Daily, a local newspaper that reported on the case.
The Ministry of Education has had a policy in place for many years that to qualify for university admission, students from outside Beijing need a higher score on the national college-entrance examination than students from Beijing need. Beijing universities argue that the policy is necessary because students from the city can live at home, freeing up valuable dorm spaces for out-of-town students. Out-of-town students argue that Beijing students receive privileges because of the capital’s parochialism. Every university in China has lower entrance requirements for students in its province, but Beijing has the majority of China’s key universities, so the difference is particularly acute there.
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