The “2013 Blue Report of Qualified International Personnel” was published on September 24. The report stated that China is currently facing a severe shortage of foreign students, with large volumes of students travelling outside the country for their educational needs and significantly fewer exchange students from foreign countries coming to China to study.
In 2012, the total number of Chinese students going abroad to study totaled 1,136,900 people. China is the top country supplying foreign exchange students to universities in the USA, the UK, Australia, Canada, Japan and New Zealand. On the other hand, the total number of foreign exchange students coming to study in China only amounted to 328,300 people, a 808,600 difference between these two amounts. This "deficit" reflects a number of problems including inadequate level of internationalization of teachers in China and a lack of professionalism.
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I've been teaching Comp. Sci. in a top-tiers Chinese univ. Here's my own experience, and what I got from talking with colleagues (locals and expats alike). Grades, in theory are in the [0, 100] range. However, grading less than 60 is pretty much taboo : we would make the students loose face, I was told. Also, failure is pretty much the failure of the teacher, not the student. So here's what happen in practice: teachers give high grade no matter how bad the student is. Students know this very well, so few of them are really trying hard. A good teacher is a teacher giving good grades, therefore they will give good grades no matter what, and it saves them from putting energy in preparing their classes. For most of my colleagues, it boiled down to reading slides and giving the same exam again and again. Exam mostly about rote learning, students barely know the concept of open exam (where you bring any document, but questions are fairly open, calling for deductive work). Furthermore, a school might accept students with high mark, even if the high marks are unrelated to the topic they will learn at the school. So you get students who know *nothing* of computer programming, yet will attend a class asking for such a knowledge. They understand nothing, yet get a ok grade thanks to the grading policy I mention above. Repeat, rinse... It gives you an idea how worthy a Chinese university diploma is : not much more than the paper it's printed on. You will find a few exceptions to this, for specific topics at specific universities. But the 90% part is what I describe. So yeah. People go abroad because the diploma have more meaning, it's not rote learning and it's about learning something, not just stamping paper after paying a school. Unless you want to learn Mandarin, you pretty much waste your time in a Chinese univs. As a foreigner with a local diploma, the employment prospects diploma are small. Outside of China, they get near zero, unless you're ready for self-employment. But Chinese education does not quite prepare for self-motivated work.
Sep 27, 2013 11:38 Report Abuse
800,000 x 20,000us (I only factored the tuition costs)= 16 million usd. That is leaving the Chinese economy each year. You do not need to be an economist to understand the math.
Sep 27, 2013 09:30 Report Abuse
since for quite long time i havent seen any articles about universities in China and i ve been dying to share our story and cry for help.My bf and I live in one of the coastal cities in north-east China, after attending a university here for one year and being very dissatisfied with received education, attitude and the price that was asked for, he decided to transfer to another college in Beijing. The current school never gave him a transfer paper on the basis that school's policy doesnt allow students to leave whenever they want. After 2 weeks of negotiating they even called the new school and urged them not to accept the student. All the lies they gave us and to the school continued till the visa expiring time. They took his passport away promising to get one month tourist visa so he can prepare to go home.The passport was given back more then 2 weeks later with only 5 days left visa time and a visa that said 人道 on it.My bf is leaving on Saturday...crying my heart out...is is a normal situation with universities here? and is there anybody who could help?
Sep 27, 2013 08:27 Report Abuse
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