Universities queue up to offer places for knife-attack heroes
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MORE than 10 universities in China have offered places to two high school students injured while stopping a knife attack on a bus in east China’s Jiangxi Province, local education authorities said.
Liu Yanbing and Yi Zhengyong from Yichun No. 3 Middle School in Yichun City were unable to sit the national college entrance exam at the weekend due to injuries sustained on May 31 while trying to stop a man attacking passengers on the bus.
Liu suffered serious injuries to his back and head while trying to take the knife from the attacker. Yi sustained injuries to his hand.
The Yichun government has given “Good Samaritan” awards to both Liu and Yi, and the provincial education bureau decided to organize a separate gaokao for the two students after they have recovered from their injuries.
More than 10 universities including Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University said that they would like to have them as students.
Yu Binhua, headmaster of Yichun No. 3 Middle School, said Tsinghua had contacted them and said they would take the two if they passed the exam and its own one where its threshold score is usually 100 points above the line they have drawn for the two boys.
“We enrolled a few good Samaritans back in the times of the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008,” said Yu Han, head of Tsinghua’s admission office.
“We pay great attention to students with high moral standards.”
Others offering places include the Zhuhai branch of the Beijing Institute of Technology, Nanchang University and Macau University of Science and Technology.
The two students will still have to take the college entrance exam, but gaokao candidates with high moral standards, including those with “Good Samaritan” awards, get 20 points added to their final exam score in several regions across the country, including Beijing. Not, however, in Jiangxi where such a policy has not been adopted.
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