Grads from top colleges get a head start in job game

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-11-30 16:36

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The survey by Beida's employment guidance center showed that for the graduates of 2007, the rate of employment is 97 percent. Among them, 66 percent were employed by central and local governments, research institutes at and above provincial level, famous multinational companies and other major organizations.

However, 10 percent chose to work in the impoverished areas in northwest China, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), or the rural areas around Beijing. Local universities do not fare so well.

However, it is a different story away from Beida. Universities in impoverished areas of China do not do as well in getting their graduates into good careers.

Dong Yunchuan, the principal of higher education school of Yunnan University in southwest China, pointed out that many universities in China are only churning out "onefold" graduates, who do not meet some of the needs of society. Moreover, students in less famous universities are not as confident as those in Beida or Beijing's other top-rank university, Tsinghua.

"A lot of graduates from local universities find it hard to find a job. That is closely related to their lack of ability --- ability in studying, researching, adapting to various situations, communicating, enduring pressure, and so on," Dong said.

He said that the sometimes limited capacity of local universities to teach to a good standard also hindered the development of their graduates. Universities in underdeveloped areas are at a continual disadvantage because they cannot get enough funding from the various local level governments to improve their teaching level.

Therefore, those who do well in the national entrance examination (held annually in the Chinese mainland for high-school graduates to qualify for universities at different levels) and are able to enter good universities like Beida and Tsinghua, are usually guaranteed better jobs than those who can only join local universities, Dong said.

Because of the limited resource of the country, it is understandable that famous universities get more favourable policies from the government, said Dong. However, he believed that such an imbalance should not be encouraged.

Local universities will enjoy a better future, if the government could give more attention and financial support, the heads of local universities update their educational concepts, and educational specialists give more constructive ideas, Dong said.

He said that local universities should also try to improve their education through focusing more on the subjects on which they have better teaching resources and try to diversify the education model for different students.

The Ministry of Education has taken some measures to cope with the imbalance in the education resources in different areas of the country. The measures include expanding the number of students major state universities accept from underdeveloped and poor areas, and encouraging more graduates from good universities to go back to their hometowns to teach in universities in poor areas.

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