Students more prudent in rush to go abroad
By Zhu Zhe (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-16 07:12

"We're stepping up co-operation with foreign institutions to push forward vocational education in China," said Huang Yao, director of the Vocational and Adult Education Department of the Ministry of Education. "Advanced education modules will be introduced into the country, and technical workers will be able to pursue an overseas vocational degree."

Based on statistics from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, senior technical workers only account for 4 per cent of China's 70 million technical workers, far behind the 30 to 40 per cent level in developed countries. The skilled manpower deficit sits at 10 million workers in China.

"Promoting vocational education will help ease employment tension," Huang said. "The 120 million migrant workers in Chinese cities will get vocational training for better jobs. The move is designed to meet the growing need for skilled workers in China, especially in the service industry."

Education officials from embassies and institutions from France, Australia, Canada and the Republic of Korea attended the forum and gave a detailed introduction into the development of vocational education in their countries.

"We are working closely with Chinese educational institutions on five programmes," said Dominique Dubois, an education official from the French Embassy. "Students will be educated both in China and France, and awarded degrees jointly issued by the two countries."

At the invitation of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, which staged this year's expo, a total of 180 schools from 30 overseas countries and regions and 400 domestic education institutions attended the event.

Some world famous universities attending the expo attracted thousands of students, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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