University recruiters fighting it out online
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FOR those with high aspirations, places at the prestigious Peking and Tsinghua universities are worth fighting for, but for China’s top scorers, it is the universities which are are fighting for them.
A war between China’s two top universities for the country’s best students has been raging online.
Recruitment teams in southwest China’s Sichuan Province from the two universities have accused each other of poaching the best candidates with offers of cash or other sweetners.
The embarrassing squabble has taken place in the full public glare, fought out on the august establishments’ Sina Weibo accounts.
The clash, or at least scuffle, of the Titans soon attracted the attention of a Chinese public ever eager for a new bone of online contention to chew on, and the “official” posts were forwarded and commented on thousands of times.
Both universities have since deleted the offending posts.
Weibo users expressed disgust that China’s top universities would set such a bad example for their students.
The Ministry of Education issued a statement saying that universities are not allowed to lure students with promises of admission, enhanced scholarships or by offering the privilege of changing majors at will.
Peking University said it was extremely concerned by the behavior of its recruitment team members and had ordered them to behave in manner appropriate to their task. Tsinghua University gave a similar response.
Universities should be able to conduct real, independent recruitment, not based on admission scores alone, said Xiong Bingqi, vice dean of Beijing’s 21st Century Education Research Institute. A two-way selection mechanism should be established between universities and students to let both sides have the freedom to choose according to their individual needs and expectations.
Around 9.42 million Chinese high school graduates took the college entrance exam this year.
It has become much easier for students to get into higher education with the growth of colleges and universities in the past 20 years, but competition for elite students and top universities is still quite fierce.
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