Half measures

Training corruption busters through a master's program may enhance their effectiveness in the anti-graft fight, but will do little to root out the widespread practice.

The master's degree, for which a memorandum of cooperation was recently inked by the Supreme People's Procuratorate and Renmin University, will just be a blip on the radar in the battle against power abuse.

Academic studies into corruption as a social and political phenomenon will only go so far in buttressing the anti-graft fight, and the proposed program may just net some post-graduates a job in a shrinking market.