The eleven demands of the student leaders are: (1) to ensure the inclusion of teacher and student representatives in drawing up education policy, laws, bylaws and related laws; (2) to have freedom to establish student unions and teachers' unions and have these unions officially recognised; (3) to ensure the formation of a national education commission and the university coordination committee prescribed in the national education law; (4) to have greater autonomy in the governance of universities; (5) to amend the current exam system and university entrance system; (6) to adopt teaching methods that ensure that students develop independent thoughts; (7) to guarantee a freedom of all national races' languages and include mother-tongue-based multi-lingual education in the national education law; (8) to implement an all-inclusive education system, particularly of students with disabilities; (9) to allow students expelled from the universities for their involvements in protests to return to their universities; (10) to designate 20 per cent of the country’s overall budget for educational purposes; (11) to implement a free, compulsory education system for the middle-school level students in addition to the primary school students.