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Foreign tour for 100 university officials
By Wang Xiang |
May 18, 2010, Tuesday
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ABOUT 100 university officials will be sent overseas on a 24-day training course to help them build first-class universities in China.
The Ministry of Education said officials selected from across the country would visit Japan, Britain, Australia, and the United States to "learn advanced management skills" that could help build "a batch of first-class universities by 2020," Beijing News reported today.
The taxpayer-funded trip attracted criticism by Internet users, with more than 6,000 people commenting after the news was posted on Sina.com.cn.
According to the Asian University Rankings released last Thursday, no Chinese mainland university was ranked within the top 10. Even Peking University and Tsinghua University, the most highly regarded colleges in China, were only ranked at 12 and 16.
The former principal of Peking University, Xu Zhihong, said China would have to deal with the fact that it has no first-class universities yet, nor would it for quite a long time, according to Xinhua news agency.
Xu said at least two generations were needed to build a great university and the Ministry of Education was being overly anxious.
Several universities face debt because they are recruiting more students each year to try to advance in the ranks.
By 2007, Chinese universities had more than 200 billion yuan (US$29.28 billion) in debt, which was affecting the operation of many schools, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.
Jilin University, a key school in northwestern Changchun City, came under the spotlight after authorities posted a letter on its Website on March 19 revealing its money problems. The letter said the school owned the bank 3 billion yuan after having built eight campuses across China since 1987.
The university had to resort to land sales to pay back the loan.
The Ministry of Education said officials selected from across the country would visit Japan, Britain, Australia, and the United States to "learn advanced management skills" that could help build "a batch of first-class universities by 2020," Beijing News reported today.
The taxpayer-funded trip attracted criticism by Internet users, with more than 6,000 people commenting after the news was posted on Sina.com.cn.
According to the Asian University Rankings released last Thursday, no Chinese mainland university was ranked within the top 10. Even Peking University and Tsinghua University, the most highly regarded colleges in China, were only ranked at 12 and 16.
The former principal of Peking University, Xu Zhihong, said China would have to deal with the fact that it has no first-class universities yet, nor would it for quite a long time, according to Xinhua news agency.
Xu said at least two generations were needed to build a great university and the Ministry of Education was being overly anxious.
Several universities face debt because they are recruiting more students each year to try to advance in the ranks.
By 2007, Chinese universities had more than 200 billion yuan (US$29.28 billion) in debt, which was affecting the operation of many schools, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.
Jilin University, a key school in northwestern Changchun City, came under the spotlight after authorities posted a letter on its Website on March 19 revealing its money problems. The letter said the school owned the bank 3 billion yuan after having built eight campuses across China since 1987.
The university had to resort to land sales to pay back the loan.
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