hey conclude that
“a lack of funds is a common situation in several university career centers in China. […] Most career centers do not have a full-time teacher. Instead, they hire school teachers or entrepreneurs to provide students with career counseling services.” (59)
Their study shows that career services in WUT receives less than one tenth of the funding received by UNC, and, while serving more than twice the amount of students, WUT has less than half the number of the professional counselors in UNC. This lack of input, again, results in less competitive quality of the career services.
This increasing number of students leaving China for higher education is concerning, as those students are mostly the top ones in China who realize that …show more content…
The limit in academic freedom can be seen in both in the whole school level and individual level. In “Higher education governance and university autonomy in China”, Li Wang conducts both a survey and interviews with staff members in Chinese universities. Although the results of the survey shows that the schools have the power to most important academic decisions such as defining campus mission and objectives, setting degree requirements and setting student-faculty ratios, the interviews reveal the government’s control underneath the autonomy - universities are allowed to make these decisions only if those decisions will satisfy the government’s guidelines. For example, the mission and objectives is almost pre-decided by the state as the state decides what kind of institution the school would be. Similarly, the specific degree requirements set by the university also need to comply with requirements made by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. Moreover, the government has the power to make appointments to important positions, such as the university president and the secretary of the CCP branch in the university, which also strengthen the state’s influence in these decisions that seem to be made only by the university itself. The state’s influence does not just cease at public schools — the central government is also trying to establish CCP branch in all the private schools. Being able to control the administration as well as the appointment process gives the central government great power over the schools, therefore leaving them little room to maneuver. The universities can only act in favor of the central government instead of its own interest. Right now the government sets producing world-class universities as its first priority, which is the goal of many universities,
“a lack of funds is a common situation in several university career centers in China. […] Most career centers do not have a full-time teacher. Instead, they hire school teachers or entrepreneurs to provide students with career counseling services.” (59)
Their study shows that career services in WUT receives less than one tenth of the funding received by UNC, and, while serving more than twice the amount of students, WUT has less than half the number of the professional counselors in UNC. This lack of input, again, results in less competitive quality of the career services.
This increasing number of students leaving China for higher education is concerning, as those students are mostly the top ones in China who realize that …show more content…
The limit in academic freedom can be seen in both in the whole school level and individual level. In “Higher education governance and university autonomy in China”, Li Wang conducts both a survey and interviews with staff members in Chinese universities. Although the results of the survey shows that the schools have the power to most important academic decisions such as defining campus mission and objectives, setting degree requirements and setting student-faculty ratios, the interviews reveal the government’s control underneath the autonomy - universities are allowed to make these decisions only if those decisions will satisfy the government’s guidelines. For example, the mission and objectives is almost pre-decided by the state as the state decides what kind of institution the school would be. Similarly, the specific degree requirements set by the university also need to comply with requirements made by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. Moreover, the government has the power to make appointments to important positions, such as the university president and the secretary of the CCP branch in the university, which also strengthen the state’s influence in these decisions that seem to be made only by the university itself. The state’s influence does not just cease at public schools — the central government is also trying to establish CCP branch in all the private schools. Being able to control the administration as well as the appointment process gives the central government great power over the schools, therefore leaving them little room to maneuver. The universities can only act in favor of the central government instead of its own interest. Right now the government sets producing world-class universities as its first priority, which is the goal of many universities,