The Ministry of Education does not officially have a first degree: "Academic qualifications refer to people's learning experience of receiving scientific and cultural education and skills training in educational institutions. In the process of management, what we call "education" usually refers to the highest or last degree, without using the concept of "first degree".

Generally speaking, in the era of planned economy, the first degree in people's minds refers to the degree issued by the First Education Bureau, which usually refers to the highest full-time degree. In people's minds, a second degree refers to a degree awarded by the Second Education Bureau, usually a part-time degree. But now the second degree is more strict, there is a unified examination method, and the recognition of the second degree is getting higher and higher. Of course, if we must emphasize the "first degree", primary schools and middle schools are also (first) degrees.

At that time, the so-called first degree in people's old ideas could distinguish birth. College graduates with general college education must be people with iron rice bowls and cadre status. For example, graduates of professional education marked as "graduation certificate of ordinary colleges and universities (ordinary secondary specialized schools)" hold the Employment Registration Certificate for Graduates of National Ordinary Colleges and Universities (Secondary Specialized Schools) and the Employment Registration Certificate for Graduates of Secondary Normal Schools. After the university education in Chinese mainland expanded from 65438 to 0999, there was no such thing as a first degree.

The Employment Promotion Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that employers and employment agencies should provide workers with equal employment opportunities and fair employment conditions when recruiting personnel and engaging in employment intermediary activities, and there should be no employment discrimination.

The Ministry of Education emphasizes that it is strictly forbidden to publish recruitment information with the words of limited 985 colleges and universities, 2 1 1 colleges and universities; It is strictly forbidden to publish demand information that violates the discriminatory provisions of the state such as gender, household registration and education. Do not publish "discriminatory information about institutions, learning methods (full-time and part-time) and other information (first degree), and employers who attract attention with discriminatory recruitment information should deal with it."