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 clarify its position on February 26. In the statement, an [...]
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.** According to Xinhua, China’s Ministry of Education will fund a further 6,000 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Guardian recently reported on the potentially ‘cataclysmic’ effects of a drop in international student enrolments from China, in the event of a recessionary contagion spreading to the country. The report quotes London’s City University Vice-Chancellor Prof. Malcolm Gillies describing a receding Chinese economy as “more cataclysmic than anything else”, and urging caution in waters [...]
In a recent article, China View discussed how extreme study pressure is destroying creativity in China. Having graduated from a humble, middle-road high school in Chengdu, Mr. Zhu Shiqing, former Principal of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), was bemused when local media made the assumption that someone of his calibre must have [...]
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