2026-11-11
A PPT from the Southeast University Medical School circulating online shows that out of 236 freshmen enrolled, only 133 remain, a dropout rate of 43.6%. In Medical Imaging, 6 out of 21 remain, and in the 5+3 integrated clinical program, 39 out of 86 students transferred out. Some students claim that in their freshman year, the class size dropped from over 30 to 14.
2026-11-11
Recently, a Douyin influencer posted a video claiming that students were not released from school until 9:50 PM, with the school gate brightly lit and crowded with people. The caption read, 'If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it.' Netizens left sarcastic comments and recalled similar experiences.
2026-11-10
Around November 10, a netizen posted on Douyin recalling that a boy in the Tsinghua-Peking University elite class jumped to his death after being repeatedly reprimanded by teachers and parents following a poor performance in a monthly exam. His family wore mourning clothes and wailed at the school gates for days, sparking heated discussions among netizens.
2026-11-08
On November 8, Chinese media reported that primary and secondary schools in many parts of the country have adjusted their schedules, delaying school start times and canceling morning reading sessions. Netizens commented that canceling extended school services is the only real measure to reduce time spent at school, and netizens from many provinces stated that local school schedules have not been adjusted, with student pressure remaining excessively high.
2026-11-06
Following updates to engineering education accreditation requirements, the school demanded a retrospective audit of course and assignment records from the past three years to demonstrate corporate cooperation. As many courses lacked such cooperation, school leadership ordered teachers to fabricate materials to meet the requirements. Teachers are now facing layers of assessment pressure and are overwhelmed by the burden of filling out paperwork for documentation.
2026-11-05
On November 5, The Paper reported that universities including Jiangnan University, Heilongjiang University, Wenzhou University, and Northeast Forestry University have introduced AI classroom patrol systems to monitor attendance rates and student engagement (head-up rates). Jiangnan University's system covers 462 classrooms, has analyzed over 120,000 class hours, and automatically sends alerts for abnormal classroom situations, while Southern Medical University uses AI to grade classes.
2026-10-31
On October 31, at a Halloween event in Qingdao, Shandong, a netizen attracted attention by wearing a cape made of exam papers, labeling it 'Flower of the Motherland'.
2026-10-14
On October 14, a university teacher posted on a social platform, saying that what he teaches students is knowledge that is years behind, mocking himself as "a product of the previous industrial revolution teaching knowledge from the era of industrial Cthulhu," and feeling powerless for his students. The post received 857,000 likes and 157,000 reposts.
2026-10-11
On October 11, according to domestic media reports, a member of the parent committee at Siji School in Jinwan District, Zhuhai, proposed in a group chat that parents take turns going to the school to supervise students' midday rest, claiming the move was intended to allow teachers to rest better.
2026-10-10
On October 10, a mother posted a video of her first-grade daughter on Douyin, saying that her daughter wakes up at 6:40 every day, does homework until 9:30, and doesn't go to sleep until 10:30, with no light left in her eyes. She said she was powerless to help. Netizens commented that it looked like working the night shift and getting used to assembly-line life in advance.
2026-10-08
A recent post on X discussing French secondary school students' strike protests has sparked widespread discussion. The poster compared the daily schedule and study intensity of Chinese high school students in order to criticize French students, but a large number of Chinese netizens instead sided with the French students and used the issue to criticize China's education system. French netizens subsequently expressed their thanks to the Chinese netizens.
2026-10-08
During the National Day holiday, Chinese parents and students took to social media to complain that students had too much homework. Some students broke down frantically rushing to finish assignments in the early hours of the morning, questioning the point of having a holiday.
2026-10-01
On October 1, a netizen posted their 33 National Day holiday exam papers on Douyin. In the comments section, students from various regions shared their own workloads, with some needing to complete 108, 121, or even as many as 168 exam papers.
2026-09-30
On September 30, a Douyin blogger posted a video criticizing schools for oppressing students with fake two-day weekends and a score-first mentality, saying that children study with the posture of slaves. The video received more than 470,000 likes and over 20,000 comments, and many people in the comments section wished to fall sick in order to ask for leave.
2026-09-29
On September 29, the Beijing Institute of Technology announced that faculty member Pei Yi had seriously violated professional conduct standards for teachers, revoking his qualification as a graduate supervisor and terminating his employment. Pei Yi had previously sparked controversy over remarks made in class discussing feminism and noting that all members of the Politburo Standing Committee are male.
2026-09-29
On September 27, the WeChat public account “Wang Jiu’s Notebook” published news that Yantai Sino-English School in Shandong issued 94 exam papers for a 10-day Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday; on September 29, it received a letter demanding post deletion from the school bearing an official seal.
2026-09-28
Recently, netizen "Tony's Diary" published a short video revealing how some unscrupulous teachers treat students as "hostages" with differential treatment. Parents, fearing their children will be targeted, dare not complain, and must also shoulder extra tutoring tasks while teachers rely on putting pressure on students to achieve results and secure promotions. The video sparked widespread discussion among netizens, with a parent in Heilongjiang stating they had given a teacher a 1,000 yuan cash envelope, and a Guangdong parent saying their child was targeted but they dared not speak up.
2026-09-26
On September 26, Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University in Nanjing, Jiangsu, set up a dedicated "children's infusion study area" equipped with desks and chairs in the pediatric infusion zone, drawing public attention.
7月22日
A netizen shared a video of two elderly people fighting over cardboard boxes, sparking sighs in the comments section about social involution. Some netizens pointed out that given the involution and food safety issues in China, many people might not even live long enough to reach the age of fighting over cardboard boxes.
2026-09-23
Ministry of Education spokesperson and Vice Minister Wang Guangyan announced that China has built the world's largest and highest-quality education system, with 270 million people having received higher education.
2026-09-16
On September 16, a parent shared that their 10-year-old child tested positive for severe depression symptoms, sparking discussion among netizens about the excessive psychological pressure on children in China.
2026-09-10
On September 10, 2026, netizens exposed screenshots of some university group chats showing that voluntary blood donation and bone marrow donation can be counted as bonus points for comprehensive evaluation, with bone marrow donation reaching as high as 10 points per time. Upon investigation, the scholarship or comprehensive evaluation review details of universities such as Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine indeed contain regulations that treat blood donation and hematopoietic stem cell donation as bonus items, sparking public controversy.
2026-09-09
On September 9, AI designer Mihrolla released a surrealist video, using metaphor to showcase the academic burden and ideological constraints in Chinese education.
2026-09-09
On September 9, a Douyin user posted a video in which a seventh-grade boy complains that going to school every day is just deceiving himself, saying he arrives at school at 7:30 in the morning and is dismissed at 6 in the afternoon. After imitating self-encouragement, he shouts “I’m going crazy.” Commenters wrote that his life as a beast of burden has just begun.
2026-09-07
China University of Petroleum: You're Mom If You Play Games
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, primary and secondary school teachers in various regions posted on social media to complain about schools disguisedly forcing donations. Quotas were assigned based on senior teacher rank or permanent staff status, with requirements to post screenshots of the donations in work groups, triggering strong resentment.
2026-09-05
On September 5, 2026, Tang Jiafeng, a famous postgraduate entrance exam math tutor, publicly declared that English is merely a tool, calling for an end to English's status as a core course in basic education and an end to the worship of foreign things, sparking fierce public controversy over education reform.
2026-09-03
A plan by Zizhuang Primary School in Yongchuan, Chongqing, to charge students a tray-cleaning fee of 45 yuan per semester has sparked controversy. On September 3, 2026, the Yongchuan District Education Commission announced that the charge was non-compliant and ordered the school to stop it immediately.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, a parent exposed the schedule of the high school division of Haikou City No. 4 Middle School, which shows that the school forces students to collectively watch a half-hour broadcast of Xinwen Lianbo during the evening self-study period, sparking public discussion.
2026-09-01
In Huazhou, Guangdong, a large number of students' parents gathered at the school gate to protest after some students were required to transfer to other campuses, and clashed with police.
2026-09
Police told Enxu that Li Zheng was being detained on suspicion of organized crime; the report also stated that Li Zheng's network of schools was still registering companies and promoting new schools.
2026-09
Beijing No. 18 Middle School recently replaced its principal with one from Shandong along with a number of teachers, sparking dissatisfaction over their poor Mandarin, low teaching quality, and an open letter from the principal criticizing students; subsequently, the principal was exposed as allegedly having a prior rape record, leading to collective student protests.
2026-09-01
On September 1, 2026, some kindergartens in Hong Kong had young children perform Chinese-style marching drills to raise the flag at their opening ceremonies, and the Education Bureau disclosed that it had held 40 flag-raising workshops for more than 1,000 kindergarten teachers across Hong Kong to strengthen patriotic identity.
2026-09
A teacher at Tongling No. 1 High School in Anhui, Anhui Province, posted a complaint saying that in addition to regular teaching they must constantly take part in teaching-research activities, write study reflections, work on papers and research projects, and set exam questions, saying: "Why can't work just be teaching? I'm so miserable, I want to escape all of this."
2026-08-28
Hong Kong's Education Bureau announced a series of student mainland exchange programs themed on the "90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March" for the new school year, arranging for students to visit relevant memorial sites and participate in themed activities.
2026-08-28
On August 28, 2026, the Hong Kong Education Bureau sent a circular to all primary and secondary schools across Hong Kong, launching a student mainland exchange program for the 90th anniversary of the Long March victory, organizing students to visit Zunyi and other places to enhance their sense of identity.
2026-08-25
On August 25, 2026, Aite Qidi Yulongwan Kindergarten in Laiyang, Shandong issued a report stating that family members of 3 students forcibly entered the teaching area and beat the kindergarten director and teachers, causing injuries, and that the kindergarten is cooperating in pursuing legal responsibility against the attackers.
Location: Yantai, Shandong ·
Importance II ·
Verification: Official claim ·
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2026-07-10
First-year high school students at Anlu No. 1 High School in Hubei Province staged a collective strike to protest the school's decision to cut their original 20-day summer vacation down to just 5 days. Chanting slogans such as "Against centralization, advocate equality" and "Return our 20-day summer vacation," they ultimately forced the school administration to compromise and restore the long break.
2026-06
Blogger Shiju Insight posted in June this year that some university technician classes failed to recruit enough students and in the end had to hold classes together with ordinary classes starting from junior high school graduates; the teachers' lecturing pace was extremely slow and the content extremely shallow, and high-end skills training turned into a big pot of stew for just killing time.
2026-06-01
A university teacher submitted a post arguing that engineering education accreditation, while wearing a non-governmental mask, is actually an administrative directive that reduces engineering universities to formalistic administrative performances, resulting in the 'high schoolization of universities'.
2024-09
Online reports claim that China has begun implanting chips into student school uniforms for location tracking and surveillance.
2024-06-13
Netizens submitted records of extreme point deductions at Hengshui No.2 High School, showing that students were frequently penalized for everyday details such as holding books incorrectly, using the restroom at night, not lying down properly while sleeping, and even laughing or combing hair.
2021-07-24
The General Office of the CCP Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Further Easing the Burden of Homework and Off-Campus Tutoring on Students in Compulsory Education, delivering a devastating blow to the tutoring industry.
2010
Henan examinee Li Mengmeng scored 565, 13 points above the first-tier cutoff, but her paper application form never entered the admission process and was forgotten in the admissions office.
2006
Starting in 2006, rural western China was the first to waive tuition and fees; in 2007 this was extended to all rural areas, and in 2008 free education was achieved in both urban and rural areas. The Two Exemptions and One Subsidy policy covered 150 million rural students, bringing to an end the system of paying fees during the compulsory education stage.
1950
The author's uncle scored excellently on exams at Shanghai No. 5 Middle School in the 1950s, but because his father was a fugitive landlord he could not attend university and was assigned to an agricultural university in the northwest; that school was located in a famine-stricken area where people starved to death. After he returned to Shanghai, his household registration had already been transferred out so he could not re-register there, and he ultimately returned to his hometown in Zhejiang to farm and live out his days.