China university offers US$11,000 ‘micro’ overseas study to help students pass failed courses

A privately run college in China has come under fire for asking students who failed exams to pay as much as 79,800 yuan (US$11,000) to join a nonexistent “micro study abroad” programme to have their fail record removed. Xian Technology and Business College, financed by Beijing Northern Investment Group, is a little-known institute in Xian, Shaanxi province, northwestern China. In mid-December, some parents complained to the news outlet Benliu News that teachers at the school coerced them into...