True graduate employment rates required

AS CHINA EXPECTS a total of 7.95 million college students to graduate in 2017, the Ministry of Education recently issued a notice not only encouraging and supporting entrepreneurship and innovation among them, but also banning universities from forcing graduates to sign fake employment contracts. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Friday:

It is not rare that some college graduates are "employed" by unknown employers without their consent, just because the universities want decent employment figures for their graduates, which they can subsequently flaunt. Some colleges go even further and threaten to withhold graduates' diplomas if they do not find a job by a certain date.

The audacity of these colleges is a result of how many graduates find a job on leaving campus still plays a role in the destiny of their majors. As a result, students in their last year in college are "encouraged" to make job-seeking their priority, leaving limited time for them to focus on their courses and dissertations. Some of them will even purchase forged contracts from online merchants to stop the college's constant pestering.