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But in their abrupt about-face days before the Nov. 15 application deadline, district officials said on Sunday they were dropping most of the new admissions requirements, appearing to revert back to the more rigorous process for the upcoming school year.

Yet a Brown University study found that students who took courses from professors with more rigorous grading standards learned more.

The law has been widely criticised as stifling freedom of expression in Thailand, and in its manifesto Move Forward had proposed less severe punishments – jail sentences have been as high as 50 years – and a more rigorous process for filing charges.

Law enforcement agencies must adopt more rigorous screening and training for those entrusted to interact with and protect children.

Croatia's President Zoran Milanovic said he was shocked by the "savage, unprecedented" mass shooting and called for rules on gun ownership to be "even more rigorous".