Security guards role model of learning

MORE THAN 500 ON-CAMPUS SECURITY GUARDS at Peking University, one of the most prestigious universities in China, have reportedly managed to gain access to a degree course at the university over the past two decades by taking self-study courses and continuing education examinations for adults. People.com.cn commented on Thursday:

Self-taught education seems to have become something of a tradition for many security staff at Peking University, most of whom do not have a college degree and later manage to get one through continuing higher education.

A 41-year-old former security guard at the university, who is now head of a vocational school in North China's Shanxi province, earned a degree in law from the university in 1998. He only had a junior middle school diploma before he passed the university's entrance examination for continuing education pursuers.