Making campus life convenient for the disabled

THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CHINA DISABLED PERSONS' FEDERATION jointly issued a regulation to safeguard disabled people's right to take the college entrance exam and ensure organizers make arrangements to guarantee they can do so without trouble. Comments:

Many colleges refuse to admit disabled applicants because they don't have the infrastructure to accommodate them. Some colleges don't have ramp or chair-lifters, and physically challenged students have to be carried to classes by their classmates. Other colleges don't have textbooks for the visually impaired. The situation will not change with just a regulation. The State needs to spend more resources to improve universities' infrastructure to make life more convenient for the disabled.

Beijing News, May 16