20 10-08-03 06:49:44
Our reporter Wang
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After working in Beijing for three years, Ms. Hou, an employee of a well-known accounting firm, has never stopped running for her hukou. Her hukou can't be registered, not because of anything else, but because the school she graduated from is a Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run school.
The diploma was awarded by Nottingham University, which ranked 12 in the UK, but the book was read in Ningbo, Zhejiang. Although she has a decent job and a good income, she has to bow her head in front of the police in the Beijing Household Registration Management Office.
Due to the inherent "bad impression" of Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools in the eyes of the public, some students like Ms. Hou, who graduated from Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools recognized by the Ministry of Education with excellent academic performance and outstanding personal ability, have to face suspicious eyes and even unfair treatment after entering the society. The reason is known to students, teachers and insiders, but most people don't know.
Holding the relevant documents to settle down, the answer is "this school is not qualified."
Ms. Hou graduated from the Second Foreign Languages Institute with a bachelor's degree, and then studied for a master's degree in international management at Nanyang Technological University. At the end of the semester, she went to study in the UK for one month, obtained a master's degree certificate from the University of Nottingham, and then went to work in Beijing.
According to the Notice of the Ministry of Public Security on Handling Overseas Students' Accounts issued by the Ministry of Public Security 1994, overseas students who do not belong to the unified distribution of the state can go through the settlement formalities at the receiving police station with their passports and certificates from the personnel department at or above the receiving city and county level.
Is Ms. Hou, who has been studying in Britain for only one month, an international student? This issue is controversial. For this reason, the school specially communicated with relevant departments, and the relevant departments issued two documents: Letter on the Settlement of Some Postgraduates in unnc (No.818 [2007] of the Department of Foreign Education) and Relevant Opinions on Solving the Settlement of Postgraduates in unnc (No.2212007).
According to the document, the graduates of our school should go to the public security department to settle down with the agreed documents, the employment agreement signed with the employer and the master's degree certificate of foreign universities.
With two documents issued by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Public Security, Ms. Hou went to settle down with confidence. The reply was a cold sentence, "This school is not qualified."
Why not open an account? Ms. Hou asked people to inquire for two reasons. "First, the Public Security Bureau thinks that we are all playboys who spend money on college and are not eligible for the treatment of international students; Second, the household registration management office has not received the notice from the superior unit. "
Since graduation, although I have heard many students talk about examples of being "unpopular and looked down upon" in society, it is the first time for Ms. Hou to feel this so-called "prejudice". "It sounds really uncomfortable. We also worked hard to get a diploma, not a diploma workshop. "
Is it prejudice or fact that enterprises think that Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools is "unreliable"?
Speaking of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, the first reaction of Mr. Xu, the boss of a foreign venture capital company in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, is "diploma workshop". Have you ever seen Harvard or Yale do such a thing? "
Mr. Xu told reporters that he has never been superstitious about foreign diplomas, and the company has never only looked at diplomas to recruit people. "Don't say it's a cooperative school, it's an authentic international student. I also want to see which country and school it is from. Australia and Canada will definitely not recruit and the United States will consider it. "
If xu teacher's view is a little extreme, then the views of the next few business leaders are relatively rational.
"I don't discriminate against students who graduated from Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools, but I don't think they are much better than others." This is the words of Li Lei, the boss of a foreign-funded medical machinery enterprise. His company has recruited some returnees. "I have a principle that no matter what school I graduated from, it must be a formal education recognized by the education department. Under this premise, I will look at my ability and experience. "
Mr. Zhuang, the personnel director of a central enterprise specializing in foreign trade import and export business in China, seems to have more say in this. He himself participated in Sino-foreign cooperative education projects during his tenure. Nevertheless, he never recruits students from Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools. "I have also studied Chinese-foreign cooperation projects myself, and I know them better."
Teacher Zhuang believes that Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools is the general trend of the future development of higher education, but at present, it is still somewhat "unreliable". "The foreign teachers in our school come to class for a week or two and never come again. Management is confusing, so even if the fees are expensive, we must ensure the quality of teaching. "
"Not reliable." When it comes to Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, Mr. Wang, the public relations manager of an internationally renowned commodity company, has similar feelings. Contrary to the propaganda in the enrollment brochures of some Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools that "graduates are recognized by internationally renowned foreign companies", Mr. Wang's company has never hired graduates from Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools. "We generally recruit students from' 985' universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua, Fudan University and People's Congress, and occasionally recruit some international students from Oxford and Cambridge to do research and development."
Behind the chaos: running a school without approval
In recent years, negative news about Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools has emerged in an endless stream, and words such as "cheat money", "trap" and "buy diploma" often appear in public together with the names of Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools.
"Some schools that only want to make money have smashed the pot of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools." Fu Lei, Dean of capital university of economics and business Accounting Institute, began to contact Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools from 1998. The School of Accounting also cooperates with the China Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Deakin University in Australia and the Australian Institute of Certified Public Accountants to offer postgraduate courses for working people. Starting from 12, the project only enrolls 130 students, and the tuition fee for each student is about130,000 yuan for two years.
He has a clear conscience about the Sino-foreign cooperative education he is engaged in. At the same time, he also understands the views of most people in society on Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools. "The market is really chaotic, and some schools in China are very irresponsible. They only know how to collect money, or listen to foreigners, or have no foreign teachers at all. They all follow teacher China and regard education as a tool to make money. "
As for the class hours of foreign teachers, in 2006, the Opinions of the Ministry of Education on Several Issues Concerning Current Sino-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools clearly stipulated that imported foreign courses and professional core courses should account for more than one third of all courses and core courses in Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, and the number of courses and teaching hours of professional core courses undertaken by teachers in foreign educational institutions should account for more than one third of all courses and teaching hours in Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools.
"In practice, some institutions look at money and don't take the regulations seriously at all. They don't have school qualifications, and you can't take him. " Fu Lei sighed and dropped a sentence, "There are not one or two people who don't obey the law."
Zhongqing Online-China Youth Daily (Z-0 1)