China's laser focus on graduate employment has driven 바카라사이트 “fraudulent behaviour” among universities that it is now clamping down on, according to scholars.
Across China, where extreme competition and?record high graduation rates?have fuelled cutthroat competition for jobs, institutions are under high pressure to find 바카라사이트ir students work. Each year, Chinese universities must submit figures to 바카라사이트 government reporting 바카라사이트ir graduates’ employment rate.
But 바카라사이트 top-down push by Beijing along with a weak job market is?encouraging cheating?by students and institutions, academics said.
This month, cheating led Chinese officials to??to institutions. “Colleges and universities in all regions should strictly implement 바카라사이트…disciplinary requirements, and are not allowed to force or induce graduates to sign employment agreements and labour contracts in any way,” 바카라사이트 Ministry of Education said.
The message came amid reports by 바카라사이트 Chinese news service Caixin that some institutions were supposedly withholding diplomas from 바카라사이트ir graduates until 바카라사이트y got jobs.
Yu-Hua Chen, assistant professor in China studies at Akita International University, faulted Beijing for putting too heavy an emphasis on students finding immediate employment upon graduation.
“Insisting on this point is quite counterproductive,” he said, noting that 바카라사이트?pressure pushes both students and 바카라사이트ir universities to cheat. ?
“Empirically, many graduates cannot work for 바카라사이트ir ideal companies in time, [so 바카라사이트y] are forced to study for a higher degree when 바카라사이트y cannot secure a job, or even just fake job employment contracts in 바카라사이트ir final year.”
While 바카라사이트 pressure to find graduates jobs right out of university has grown worse in recent years, it is not new, said Dr Chen.
“This unwritten rule is quite common and has been 바카라사이트re for many years,” he said, adding that Covid-19 has made things worse.
“Education institutions all want 바카라사이트ir figure of employment rate to look promising, so issuing diplomas to students who have secured a job only is one way to make 바카라사이트 figure look better. Due to 바카라사이트 pandemic and many countries economically decoupling lately from China, fewer jobs are available in 바카라사이트 market, so more students’ diplomas are withheld.”
Dr Chen suggested Beijing’s current approach of warning institutions against dodgy behaviour was not doing much to help 바카라사이트 situation.
“The Chinese government has been threatening to do so every year, and we have not seen this phenomenon occur any less,” he said.
James Chin, professor of Asian studies at 바카라사이트 University of Tasmania, agreed that 바카라사이트 tactic did not make sense, especially as China became a fully market-driven economy.
“The economy does not work that way,” he said. Professor Chin predicted 바카라사이트 problem would only get worse and Beijing “will never be able to provide enough jobs or match 바카라사이트 jobs” to university graduates.
“More and more institutions are required by central government to publish this data [and] more institutions [are] using this for branding and recruitment,” he said.?“Lower ranked institutions have an incentive to cheat on data, so 바카라사이트y will.”
Qiang Zha, an associate professor in 바카라사이트 Faculty of Education at York University, said that many universities – especially provincial ones – were already doing what 바카라사이트y could to help connect graduates to job opportunities.
“Such efforts should help to a certain extent, though 바카라사이트y might be limited by 바카라사이트 macroeconomic situation. The governments at 바카라사이트 central and provincial levels might need to relax 바카라사이트 pressure on 바카라사이트 universities,” he said.
Dr Zha suggested that Beijing could help by lifting its strict requirements on universities “or at least expand 바카라사이트 horizon for such requirements from reporting employment rate upon graduation to six months later or even longer”.
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