Woman's teaching credentials denied because she's short

China should scrap all height requirements for teachers in order to end discrimination and promote fairness in employment, experts said, after a woman in Northwest China was denied her teaching credentials because she was too short.

Xiong Bingqi, deputy director of the 21st Century Education Research Institute in Beijing, said the country should have unified standards and stop allowing provinces to make their own rules.

There is no reason that some provinces should have height requirements while others don't, and the practice might lead to abuses such as bribery, he said.