Generally speaking, it is not a good thing that the number of graduate students exceeds that of undergraduates. The phenomenon of "academic qualifications upside down" is becoming more and more common, and even some local college students organize tours to many provinces in China. "The popularity of' establishment' in the past two years is behind the influence of avoiding risks. People's employment concepts and ideology tend to be conservative and expect to return to the wings of the system. This conservative concept is a retrogression to some extent. "
In Yan Zhihua's view, these phenomena are in line with the classic theory of sociology that individual rationality may lead to group irrationality in some cases. For the current individuals, it may be a rational choice to choose postgraduate entrance examination and public examination to avoid the current employment problem and pursue "stability", but when more individuals in the whole society form such a consensus, the total cost of social operation will naturally rise. Yan Zhihua attributed this phenomenon to "the waste of talents". "For most jobs, undergraduate education is enough." Students who do not engage in scientific research with the idea of "avoiding employment" take up resources for further study, and "will bring a new round of useless reading."
In the past two years, there have been two phenomena in the job market, which have led to a very serious inversion of the whole academic qualifications. First of all, the first phenomenon is that the education market is out of touch with employment, resulting in a large number of graduates unable to find corresponding jobs. Then these students will be forced to take a wrong path and think that I can't find a job not because I don't have any big problems, but because I don't have enough education. As long as you are admitted to graduate school and have enough education, you will have a good job. But what is the truth?
In fact, this phenomenon not only appears in traditional low-paid majors such as Chinese, journalism and history, but also in the red card major mentioned by the Ministry of Law and Education. Young people think that they can't find jobs because they don't have enough education. As a result, I still can't find a counterpart after my master's degree. The reason is actually the disconnection between supply and demand in the education market.
Then a large number of famous students will be collectively abolished. The most typical is the bank teller. Before the bank made a profit, the teller position was always considered as a common place for highly educated graduates without counterpart jobs. The starting salary requirement for a teller in a bank in Beijing and Shanghai is master's degree 2 1 1. These young people enter the teller position with lofty dreams, thinking that they are "trained" potential executives and only need to start at the grassroots level.
What happened in these years? In banks, professionals do professional things, and tellers are generally promoted to an internal audit department. Because the benefits are generally poor, the wages and benefits of tellers are declining. Worried about these highly educated "talents" jumping ship?
Not worried. Because even if you give them two more pay cuts, they won't quit. The reason is that after working as a teller for several years, even after studying law or Chinese, no one wants to be a secondary school teacher now. Either work as a teller here or go there. Everyone's salary is generally like this. Where can he jump? Talk about past ideals and ambitions and make a joke.
How many people who work in banks don't understand this truth?
Therefore, continuing education must have career planning. The average salary of college students in China after five years of graduation is confidential in principle. If you search a school like Tsinghua, there are statistics on the places where graduates go, but they just don't tell you the salary. Why? Have you thought about it?
There is a big difference in salary after graduation. If you want to get more money for graduate school, you must choose your major in advance. Most employment opportunities such as computers are good, but low-paying majors should be kept secret. In case no one is watching.
As soon as you talk about this topic online, a group of people will immediately give you the meaning of popular science education. Obviously they are ordinary people, but also talk about the humanistic quality and the nature of work without wages, and talk about invisible contacts. I don't want to see people's social circles because of their spending power. Spending power is not at the same level, where do you get contacts?
The second one is not suitable for public discussion because it is related to the gender income gap.
The core factor that determines the salary of an industry still depends on supply and demand.
At present, there is a surplus of college students. Although employers always emphasize ability over education, what should most graduates do if they have no ability? Of course, doctors and masters are preferred. This is true in the workplace all over the world. You won't be surprised if you know the basic knowledge based on game theory and the basic concept of information asymmetry. Therefore, no matter how impetuous the society is, the tone of knowledge changing fate has not changed, and reading and learning is a necessary prerequisite for acquiring ability. There are too many people in China who love singing and dancing and become famous overnight, and too few people really have the ability and professional skills.
Why do many people want to improve their academic qualifications?
This is a collection of multi-level problems.
1, academic anxiety. Undeniably, undergraduate education is the foundation and low level of higher education in many modern societies. That is, higher education has just started. It may involve higher-level learning and research, and undergraduates have heard of it, but it may not even touch the surface.
2. Ability anxiety. As far as the common phenomenon of our academic education is concerned, most people do not begin to learn the ability of social life until the university stage. Many graduates, including those with various degrees, have to spend some time after graduation to adapt and even relearn how to live and work in the real society. These things vary from person to person, but relatively speaking, people with high academic qualifications adapt faster.
3. Anxiety about identity. There is more or less "qualification worship" in every society. It is undeniable that the situation of "seniority" here is quite serious. This "qualification" may be years of work or education.
Therefore, whether to continue education or not, we should comprehensively consider our own abilities, social needs and our own ideals.