9.4 million take the college entrance examination
June 12, 2017 Category Science & technology, Weekly
Some 9.4 million students took this year’s national college entrance examination, or gaokao, last week. Some 3.72 million students are expected to enroll in an undergraduate degree program following the examination, an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to 2016. Henan province has the largest number of gaokao takers, a total of 863,000. This year marks the 40th anniversary since China reinstated the gaokao at the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). More than 200 million people passed the gaokao during the past 40 years. But some people are questioning whether a university education is still worth it. The average monthly salary for 2017’s university graduates will be CNY4,014, about CNY750 less than last year, according to employment portal Zhilian Zhaopin. In addition, only 26.7% of the 93,000 surveyed graduates had signed up for a job, and one-third of those surveyed had not received any job offer by the end of April, while 38.5% had accepted a job that was unrelated to their major. With high competition for jobs as well as low salaries, many are questioning whether China’s higher education system, whose admission is mostly decided by gaokao scores, is fit for the modern age, the Global Times reports.
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