As discussed previously at The China Education Blog, there were reports on February 23 that newly-funded MBA places in China would, for the first time, be open to graduates with no work experience. The announcement caused concern among education insiders (both blogging publicly and discussing privately), prompting the Ministry of Education to
In a sign of tough economic times, recent graduates with no work experience will be permitted to apply for China-based Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degrees. Typically, MBA programs have been restricted to applicants with at least two or three years’ work experience.**
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As we have covered previously, students in China experience significant study pressure. Gaining entry to a reputable senior high school is seen to pave a child’s path to a good university, itself critical to achieve or sustain the family’s societal and financial goals. This places significant pressure on children to excel in the country’s senior high school entrance examinations.
With the [...]
Municipal governments’ latest efforts to reduce the study pressure placed on the nation’s youngest students comes in the wake of a tragic suspected suicide of an 11-year old girl in Shanghai, who fell to her death from a school window on the first day of semester. Pressure within classrooms and at home are major psychological [...]
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