Colleges should better serve students with internships

A MEDIA survey of 2,021 college graduates found that about half of them had been forced to do mandatory internships. Thepaper.cn comments:

Mandatory internships are a problem in many colleges. For example, in July, a college in Shenyang, Liaoning province, arranged for about 1,000 students to do "internships" in an electronics company, where they did laborious work for very low pay. In the end, the local education department put a stop to it.

Many ask why students do not refuse such internships. The answer is simple: Certain colleges threaten to keep the students' diplomas if the latter disobey the arrangements for mandatory internships. It is illegal but many colleges still do it.