Korkeakoulutus Kiinassa

Tästä dataa. Times Union kirjoittaa:

"A recent report by Jean Johnson of the National Science Foundation makes clear that, since 1999, Chinese, Taiwanese and Korean students earned more doctoral science and engineering degrees in their respective countries than in U.S. universities... by 2010 up to 90 percent of all the scientists and engineers in the world might live in Asia."

"China is increasing the proportion of spending devoted to basic research by more than 200 percent in the next 10 years after triple-digit increases over the past 10 years. Chinese policy calls for building 100 new four-year comprehensive universities and 10 new major research universities in the same period."

"Part of the Chinese strategy is to develop at least a dozen new mega-university cities that marry higher education with high-tech businesses. In Nanjing, for example, Jiangsu provincial and party authorities are erecting Xianlin University City, which currently has 110,000 college students living and working in 11 different universities."

Googlen Kiinan tutkimuspäällikköä siteerattiin Newsweekissa: "The No. 1 school in the U.S. might be five times as good as the school that's No. 50, but here the No. 1 school is a thousand times better".

People's Daily kertoo Kiinan lisäävän ulkomaisten opiskelijoiden sisäänottoa.

• China will enroll 300,000 foreigners in universities by 2020, up from 140,000 in 2005.
• A total of 568 universities in China are qualified to enroll foreign students, and most of the foreigners studying in China major in Chinese language and traditional Chinese medicine.
• More than 30 million people outside China are studying Chinese, including 5 million who study Chinese at school.
• Chinese Government plans to increase the number of scholarships for foreign students to 10,000 per year from the current 6,700.

Monikohan näistä opiskelijoista on Suomesta? Onko muuten suomalaisia lukioita joissa voi valita aasialaisen kielen valinnaiseksi? Samassa yhteydessä tulipa mieleeni... olisiko mitään keinoa purkaa perinteiset leirit joka vallitsevat Helsingin korkeakoulumaailmassa? Kylterit, teekkarit ja humanistit... Kukin on toiselle kirosana, tai oli ainakin silloin kun itse siellä vaikutin. Kaikki samaan poikkitieteellisen koulutusohjelmaan!