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Stuka
Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 237
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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:02 pm Post subject: Universities tighten up on graduation requirements |
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Universities in China are tightening up on graduation requirements in a bid to improve standards as a larger proportion of young people are in higher education than in the past and employers regularly complain that education standards among younger graduates appear to be dropping.
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20181025184925829 |
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eihpos
Joined: 14 Dec 2008 Posts: 331
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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That is interesting. This semester I have had about 8 students from 3rd year arriving in my freshman classes and when I asked why they mumbled something about credits. I imagine they are being forced to take extra courses in order to graduate because they didn’t do so well in previous years. Or they want to increase their GPA.
I wonder how easy it is to get a PhD in China though. I have always thought of a doctorate as a pretty major undertaking but loads of Chinese staff I have worked with seem to have one just to teach ESL! I was speaking to a Chinese colleague the other day and she was going on about perhaps doing one. She didn’t even know in what exactly, but she was talking about it as if it was some kind of little certificate. Is it easier to get s PhD in Chinese universities? |
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rioux
Joined: 26 Apr 2012 Posts: 880
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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Just last year I had about 5 seniors show up in my freshman class with some forms saying they were officially in my class. This happened on the day of the Final Exam. I thought it strange that this took place and on the very last day I was meeting my students, but I was told by these 5 students that it was ok because "their names were officially put in the computer" as being in my class.
Guess I can't argue with that. |
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Curtinca
Joined: 26 Feb 2016 Posts: 73
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2018 1:50 am Post subject: |
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I think it is because Chinese standards are not very high that a lot of Chinese students -- the better ones -- go overseas to do their masters and doctorates. |
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Kierana
Joined: 23 Sep 2011 Posts: 22
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2018 4:24 am Post subject: |
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It would be a very welcome change for me. Tired of bone idle students who graduate even if their certificate is worthless. |
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doogsville
Joined: 17 Nov 2011 Posts: 924 Location: China
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 12:16 am Post subject: |
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I worked in the same uni for six years. For the first four years, I never saw any of the students who managed to fail exams ever again, and I remember a few of them wandering around in their gowns at graduation. Then in my last two years I had third and fourth year students coming back to do courses they'd failed in first and second year. I thought at that point that there was finally hope for the future of China. |
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