China's graduate education is warned

Recently, media reported that a female doctoral student from Huazhong University of Science and Technology is put out of the game in a job application due to "inferior" undergraduate background.

For the job market, this approach does seem discriminative. But from another perspective, this is also an alert signal for the tendency of blind pursuit of high level of education.

In one survey, 38.2 percent of the respondents believe that the college entrance examination is more reliable in China but the cultivation of Master and Doctor in reality often falls short of its reputation.

In life, the sayings are also often heard such as "first-class undergraduate, second-class graduate student, and third-rate doctors". Why is it difficult for the high level of education to obtain corresponding recognition?

According to media reports, this year's number of students in planned enrollment of graduate school is over 580,000. Compared with the rapid expansion of the scale of enrollment, the teaching staff can hardly keep up pace. It is a common phenomenon that one mentor instructs more than a dozen graduate students.

The assessment on mentors takes subjects, funding, thesis, and other as the fixed indictors, and does not relate to the quality of cultivation of students.

In such lax style cultivation, many students only have to take a dozen or more courses and submit a thesis to cope with and finish master or doctor schoolwork.

Graduate education is the highest level of academic education in China's educational structure. Such mass production and impetuous cultivation have deviate far from the core objective of cultivating research talents. If things continue in this way, not only the high academic qualification will devaluate, but high-level education will also lose public credibility.