The Dhaka Times Desk Now a Chinese university has added a condition that students must know how to swim. Otherwise, the Chinese university will not give a degree!
It goes without saying that swimming is an essential activity for everyone. And so this time a Chinese university has imposed such a condition that students who go to study at that university must learn to swim. Because if they don't know how to swim, they won't be given a degree.
Students applying to one of China's most prestigious universities have been told that they must learn to swim in order to graduate.
A university called Tsinghua is called the 'Harvard of the East'. Many have questioned the decision to combine learning swimming with their graduate degrees in this way.
Many have said through social media, what is the rationale for taking this step in a country that is facing drought now?
One question is, what will happen to the students in areas where there is no river or sea in China? But while swimming is a life-saving skill, it also improves physical fitness, the university says. Moreover, those with the best heads in the country - they have to prove themselves in the swimming pool.
Interestingly, swimming was made a prerequisite for a degree at this university much earlier - in 1919. But later it was dropped again. One reason was the lack of swimming pools in Beijing. However, the recently published new rules state that new students must have the ability to pass at least 50 meters in any type of swimming. If one does not know how to swim at the time of entrance examination, then he has to learn it before graduation.
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