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CHINA: "Enrollment crisis" looms for Chinese universities
31.05.2011
For decades, attending universities has been the Chinese version of the "American Dream", promising a rise from rags to riches for those who have studied hard and invested heavily in education.A recent slump, however, in the number of students enrolling to take the college entrance examinations has awakened Chinese universities to an inconvenient truth: the era of glory has gone and they will soon have to contend for the decreasing number of students.
This year, central China's Henan Province reported a decrease of 97,000 applicants for the national college entrance exam (NCEE). It is the largest year-on-year drop for the province after the number of applicants took a downward spiral in 2008.
The province, however, after registering 855,000 applicants for the exam in June, still ranks the first in China.
More alarming is that the trend is becoming national. According to a report on eol.cn, a major portal reporting on education in China, this year's NCEE registration has dropped 10 percent in Anhui, 6 percent in Beijing, and 12 percent in Shanghai.
The overall number of candidates seeking to take the NCEE in China, it said, shrank 1 million in 2009 and 2010 after the culmination of candidates in 2008.
Full text of the article: Xinhua News site
Photo: Tsinghua University
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