Beijing — China will limit the growth of graduate enrollments to 5 percent in the coming years as unemployment rises among holders of master’s degrees around the country, the state-run news media reported today.
The China Internet Information Center quoted Wu Qidi, vice minister of education, as telling an academic forum recently that China’s graduate students, who number 1.5 million, second only to the United States, had become less competitive in the country’s job market.
The Web site quoted unnamed experts as saying that the rapid expansion of enrollments had led to a lower-quality education. Ms. Wu advised universities to pay more attention to educational quality than quantity.
The information center’s report did not say if the limit would be applied across the board or if certain critical fields of study would be exempted.
The Ministry of Education called for a similar slowdown in undergraduate enrollments last year, keeping growth to just 5 percent over the previous year after a period of booming growth led to rising unemployment among new graduates.
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