China to keep records of college students' behaviour

BEIJING: China is planning to collate the "credibility records" of all college students to monitor any untoward behaviour and promote moral conduct on campus.

Colleges will record any untoward behaviour undergraduate and graduate students exhibit in their academic, financial and job-seeking activities, an Education Ministry statement said.

Bad credibility includes cheating in exams, plagiarism and failure to repay student loans.

The announcement is part of an ongoing campaign to promote moral conduct on campus.

Colleges have been urged to ensure that students who run into credibility problems are dealt with accordingly, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

However, the statement did not include an exact timetable, elaborate on what would happen to the records or who would have access to them.