May 16, 2016 06:33 PM

Gov't Assures Parents after Protests over Changes to University Admission Quotas

Parents holding signs that read "oppose reduced enrollment, education equality" protest outside the provincial education department in Nanjing, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, on May 14

(Beijing) – Education authorities say a recent change to admission rules in rich cities that require universities to take in a greater number of non-local students will not put students in the home province at a disadvantage.

Following protests by parents, the Education Department in the eastern Jiangsu Province said on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, on May 13 that the college acceptance rate for local students "will not be lower than the previous year" because the number of test-takers in the province declined each year.