Does Florida Governor Rick Scott (who wants to
de-emphasize state funding for liberal arts degrees) and China may have something in common when it comes to
creating real jobs for college graduates?
Much like the U.S., China is aiming to address a problematic demographic
that has recently emerged: a generation of jobless graduates. China’s
solution to that problem, however, has some in the country scratching
their heads.
China’s Ministry of Education announced [in late November] plans to phase out
majors producing unemployable graduates, according to state-run media
Xinhua. The government will soon start evaluating college majors by
their employment rates, downsizing or cutting those studies in which the
employment rate for graduates falls below 60% for two consecutive
years.
Separately, does
this description resonate at all with the U.S. under the Obama administration?
State-controlled media portray China's leaders as living by the austere
Communist values they publicly espouse. But as scions of the political
aristocracy carve out lucrative roles in business and embrace the
trappings of wealth, their increasingly high profile is raising
uncomfortable questions for a party that justifies its monopoly on power
by pointing to its origins as a movement of workers and peasants.
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