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Doctorial education deteriorating
By Wang Xiang |
August 25, 2010, Wednesday
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THE number of China's PhD students has increased 4.6 times in the past decade, however, many of them are exploited as cheap labor by their supervisors, a survey showed.
PhD students numbered about 246,300 at the end of 2009, compared with 54,000 in 1999. Zhou Guangli, a professor with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, said the surging number was no better than a stigma on China's doctorial education.
Zhou cited a survey he made on 1,392 doctorial students, supervisors and employers that the overall quality of China's PhD education was deteriorating, Wuhan-based Changjiang Daily reported today.
About 46 percent of the surveyed students said their supervisors tutor more than seven PhD students at a time and are always too busy to give individual attention, the report said.
The extreme case is one supervisor with 47 doctorial students under his charge. The PhD supervisors, meanwhile, said they could only take no more than six students every year.
Students complained that their supervisors treat them as cheap labor. More than 60 percent of them said they performed more than half of the research task for their supervisor.
PhD students numbered about 246,300 at the end of 2009, compared with 54,000 in 1999. Zhou Guangli, a professor with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, said the surging number was no better than a stigma on China's doctorial education.
Zhou cited a survey he made on 1,392 doctorial students, supervisors and employers that the overall quality of China's PhD education was deteriorating, Wuhan-based Changjiang Daily reported today.
About 46 percent of the surveyed students said their supervisors tutor more than seven PhD students at a time and are always too busy to give individual attention, the report said.
The extreme case is one supervisor with 47 doctorial students under his charge. The PhD supervisors, meanwhile, said they could only take no more than six students every year.
Students complained that their supervisors treat them as cheap labor. More than 60 percent of them said they performed more than half of the research task for their supervisor.
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