Chinese university becomes a laughing stock after telling students to do final swimming test ‘online’ before graduating
- Shanghai University announces final swimming test will be ‘online’
- The move has been met with widespread online mockery
Shanghai University has become the subject of mockery after it moved a practical swimming examination “online”.
The dean’s office at Shanghai University announced on May 15 that undergraduates finishing their bachelor’s degrees due to take a 50-metre swimming test could participate online from home.
According to the university website, the special arrangement for the final swim test was in response to the ongoing wave of Covid-19 in Shanghai.
To finish the online swimming test students had to log in to the campus network and answer an online questionnaire.
“The classes and facilities including the swimming pool at the university are suspended under the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown. To ensure the students can graduate, we decided to conduct the swimming test online,” an unnamed staff member from the dean’s office told Chinese news outlet Jimu.
The university’s initiative has attracted widespread criticism and triggered a wave of mockery in China. At the time of writing, 65,000 users on Weibo had interacted with the post.