ANNUAL REPORT 2015 In response, the Commission issued a recommendation to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport to make the Plan for Mobility Enhancement for the Mobility Impaired include installation of a wheelchair lift on express and intercity buses, and to make the revision of the legislation require bus operators to comply with the phase-in installation of the lift. Another recommendation on April 13th went to the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Minister of Strategy and Finance to provide financial aid to bus operators that implemented wheelchair lifts on their buses. While the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport partially agreed with the directions from the recommendation, the National Assembly did not recognize the budget to support the installation of wheelchair lifts on express buses in the review and decision-making process for the 2016 national budget plan. In addition, the Ministry of Strategy and Finance also remained noncommittal, explaining that providing financial aid to intercity bus operators shall be discussed after they go through the performance review on the implementation of local public transportation services for the handicapped (including intra-bus with low floors and call-taxis for the disabled). B. ‌Policy recommendation to eliminate the practices of enforcing school statutes that restrict students’ out-of-school activities without any legal basis School A restricts its freshmen and sophomore students of a certain department from engaging in out-of-campus activities, including performances and filming, as required in the “school’s guidebook to campus life”. Should a student refuse to comply with the rule, the school punishes him or her by giving an F in three major subjects. Being subject to the Higher Education Act, School A is to put forth a set of school statutes in accordance with Article 4 (School Statutes) of the enforcement decree of the same law. It is through the statutes that School A may regulate the operation of its educational courses as well as the grading and graduation of its students. However, the aforementioned guidebook only included information on school affairs and administration, and thus its content may not be deemed as official school statutes. Also, the school statutes never delegated the booklet or the faculty council to impose restrictions on out-of-school activities or take punitive measures on the grades of students. The Commission found that School A was clearly denying the generally accepted principles related to basic rights by imposing such restrictions, meaning that the school was infringing on 20 | National Human Rights Commission of Korea