Chinese universities will surrender about 7 million graduates to the working world in 2010, and even more in 2011. But where will they all go? More than 1.5 million of them were unable to find themselves permanent employment last year, a number that is expected to grow even further. In a recent post, we already [...]
As already indicated when initially discussing China’s public universities’ financial situation, a plan to overcome underlying problems is not in sight as yet. After analysing some of the most critical cases, however, key reasons for failure – most of them related to planning and control mechanisms – can be named: Dwindling enrolments due to the [...]
It has been a known issue for more than a decade: Chinese universities’ insurmountable debts. And as the topic managed to attract public attention again just recently, a closer look into the matter deemed appropriate. Departments of statistics, both federal and local, would not go so far as to hard-wire figures leaving it up to [...]
In an eye-opening article, book author and U.S. policy insider Catherin E. Dalpino reasons about China’s understanding and way of implementing democracy. Dalpino applies the term pop-up democracy used by U.S. policy makers to describe the myth of all repressive governments replacing their totalitarian by democratic structures. In her view, the pop-up democracy theory had [...]
The Ministry of Education has released a statement regarding the state of China’s international student market. We have tabulated the figures below to show the top ten Chinese universities by number of international student enrolments, and added three global ranking figures for reference. Institution name Number of int’l students Times world ranking Jiaotong world [...]
In a recent article originally written for the US magazine Science, Premier Wen Jia Bao reasoned about an ambitious development plan praising innovation, science and technology as preconditions for further growth of China’s economy until 2020. As one of the implementing bodies, the Chinese Ministry of Education (MoE) followed suit with their education initiative which [...]
Having identified creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities as key deficiencies among new graduates, the Chinese government is seeking to develop a range of policies that increase the relevance and practicality of subjects across the education spectrum. While most education policy initiatives are driven out of the national Ministry of Education and provincial Education Commissions, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
