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- From: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian)
- Subject: Chinese Education
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:10:06 GMT
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- James Huang makes worthwhile points about the Chinese economy and its
- potential. One development that worries me is that China's post-secondary
- system is now endangered by the country's growing prosperity.
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- I recently read a manuscript by a Canadian teacher who's worked in China
- since the 1970s, and who's returned to places he's taught. He noted that
- Chinese graduate programs are having to lower standards (and even, horrors,
- admit women!) because otherwise they can't fill their places. Why work in
- lousy conditions only to qualify for an academic or research job that pays
- almost nothing, when jobs in the private sector can pay exceedingly well even
- by North American standards?
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- As a onetime teacher in China, I worry a lot about such a development.
- Without a large and successful professional population, China risks slipping
- back into a semicolonial, maquiladora-style economy. If so, her best and
- brightest will continue to emigrate in search of better prospects.
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