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We recognize that closure of colleges and junior colleges will narrow the education choices for low-income students.

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An education ministry official. The ministry will review its enrollment eligibility requirements for financial aid after a larger than expected number of private junior colleges, particularly those in rural regions, learned they would be disqualified for failing to clear a minimum 80-percent enrollment for three consecutive years.

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Well at least for this issue they don't force foreigners to study in rural area where those junior college were there.

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Close them down and stop wasting public money.

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Low-cost college availability should always be available. I know so many who have turned their lives around after going to one first. Many onto universities later on.

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Close them down and stop wasting public money.

Because making people hyperconcentrate in big cities and abandon rural areas is good in your opinion?

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