Course of treatment takes effect

EMBA courses have long been blamed as a platform for businesspersons and officials to form alliances and trade with power. As officials are no longer signing up for the courses, business people would do better to concentrate on taking courses themselves to improve the performance of their companies. Those institutions that provide EMBA courses also need to raise the quality of their courses as they will now need to compete for students. Let's hope the EMBA courses can be purified.

newssc.org, Sept 15

Authorities overemphasize academic degrees and educational background when recruiting and promoting officials; on the other hand, financial supervision over officials has been so loose that they have been able to pay the tuition fees with public funds. It is these two factors together that have caused the craze of officials taking EMBA courses. No wonder they have stopped taking the courses now the supervision is stricter.