China - Feb 3
Chinese professors of higher education have been under fire recently regarding the flexibility of their teaching style. China's education minister, Yuan Guiren, has boldly stated that professors are not to integrate any Western rights such as criticism of party leadership or the communist system into their lessons. The Communist Party wants strict adherence to communist ideology. Chinese professors who have failed to comply have been fire or even sentenced to jail. The Communist Party in China has always been charged with depriving its people of such basic human rights such as freedom of the press and speech; this trend continues as the government does not want professors to have any freedom in teaching China's youth. China's strict policy seems only fitting since they want to generate a future of educated youths who will become the eventual inheritors of future government or business jobs. The control over the education system is an essential quality to forming the right population backbone to a country.
Source: The Asahi Shimbun