China's educational authority yesterday gave the green light to college students planning to get married.
Starting from the fall, students reaching the legal age for marriage don't have to ask their university for approval when they plan to tie the knot, Ministry of Education officials said yesterday at a press conference in Beijing to announce revise Guidelines on University Students. The current campus regulations were issued in 1990.
But it doesn't mean the government encourages collegians to marry, said Sun Xiaobing, director of the ministry's legal office.
Students should focus on their studies, Sun said, "College students should handle properly the issues of studies, marriage and family. They aren't financially prepared yet for marriage."
"The ministry lifted the ban to get in line with the country's new Marriage Law, which came into force in 2003." said Sun.
The new Marriage Law says a person needn't get approval from his or her employer for marriage registration. But sources said only one in every 10,000 students has registered for marriage.
The revised campus regulations also offer university officials more say in punishing students who are caught cheating in an exam or plagiarizing(剽窃)research achievements.
A university can kick out a student if he or she takes an exam for another candidate, hires a proxy(替考者)to take an exam, organizes exam cheating, cheats through telecommunications devices like a cell phone, or steals ideas from a published research paper, the guidelines say.
On March 3, a district court in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, ordered Zhengzhou University to cancel its order to dismiss a student who had been caught cheating in an exam. The court said the punishment was too cruel, according to the campus rules. To better protect students' rights, the new guidelines allow students to appeal to their school or even the provincial-level education authority if they are unhappy with a punishment.
1. The Ministry of Education called off the ban in order to ________.
A. better protect students' rights
B. encourage collegians to marry
C. be in line with the country's new Marriage Law
D. challenge the current campus regulations issued in 1990
2. The underlined phrase “tie the knot (in Paragraph 2)” has the same meaning with the word “______” in the passage.
A. get married B. change school rules C. make a tie D. graduate earlier
3. According to the new campus regulations, students reaching the legal age for marriage______.
A. should concentrate on their studies
B. should earn more money to prepare them for marriage
C. can decide when to marry at their will
D. must get approval from his or her university
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