Guangming Daily, China's authoritative paper in culture and
education, published a signed article Monday on some problems
hidden in the flood of Chinese students rushing to Britain
universities and colleges.
A
remarkable problem, the article notes, is that most of the students
and their parents expect too much on the instant profit from a
discipline, and thus most students swarm unanimously to major in
finance and trade.
Statistics from a survey by the Times show Chinese students
constitute nearly half of the business administration students in
the British universities with many Chinese students. However, the
Bachelors of Business Administration have the lowest income and the
least job opportunity nowadays among the graduates of 15 main
specialties among the universities.
Another problem is that Chinese students are prone to fashionable
disciplines. Information technologies, for example, were most
popular in the past few years and attracted many students, but now
the graduates from the disciplines are facing job crises, said Wang
Xingcun, director of the London College of Beijing Agricultural
University.
Chinese parents should shift their focus on sending children to
study abroad for becoming a talent, and as for those students with
poor foundation, there is no catholicon at schools abroad, even if
their parents spend 200,000 yuan (US$24,100) yearly on them, noted
the article by citing Professor Peter, an educational expert with
London University.
In
recent years studying in Britain is becoming more and more heated.
Chinese students constituted the biggest percentage of all the
foreign students in Britain in 2001, nearly six times of the number
of 3,000 a few years ago.
Some authoritative experts in the Berkeley Universities in the
United States reckoned that Britain might replace the United States
to be the biggest destination for Chinese students in the coming
years.
(Xinhua News
Agency February 25, 2002)