Fake nursing degree scandal prompts China-wide fraud check
- Investigation follows violent protest at Nanjing school
- Students discovered qualification was actually a home economics degree
Wang Jiping, director of the ministry’s vocational education department, said the authorities had long been cracking down on fraudulent promotions in student enrolment – the cause of the disturbance at the Nanjing School of Applied Technology.
“But some schools still irresponsibly cheated parents and students,” Wang said on Wednesday.
“For this kind of phenomenon, our attitude is one of firmly stopping and seriously punishing.”
In a statement on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblogging service, the city government in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, said on Tuesday that the rally by students and parents at the school had attracted the attention of city and provincial authorities.
Investigations showed that when the school enrolled new students for its home economics major in 2016, it promised they would receive associate degrees and a nursing certificate upon graduation. The students were also guaranteed jobs.