Comments on: China’s endless search for distinguished talent

By: Usdating

Usdating — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:40:38 +0000

There’s some great tips there, just blogged about it too!

By: How Grow Taller Naturally

How Grow Taller Naturally — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:26:17 +0000

By: HelloWorld

HelloWorld — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:20:15 +0000

I can’t believe a top university made such move.
Well, in the UK, every single student is recommended by their tutor.

Everyone has their talent, it’s just some are lucky that has better environment and some just not lucky because other things like family, financial, that make them impossible to discover themself.

As a well-known education institution, their goal is to discover those potential talented people, not using “talent” people to make the institution famous or getting nobel prize!

By: GuoBao

GuoBao — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:33:28 +0000

China needs more Rosa Parks in,, well, everything.

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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:11:32 +0000

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By: stuart

stuart — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:37:37 +0000

“The whole educational system is so worthless that it’s no wonder why so many students wish to go overseas, but lack the money, of course. Those who have the money go. Good for them.”

Good for them, maybe, but not necessarily for their host institutions (who are not blameless, btw). Oftentimes the ones who arrive on foreign shores do so with fake qualifications, inadequate language skills, and fabricated financial ‘evidence’ in support of their applications.

By: RuiKe

RuiKe — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:16:06 +0000

BeiDa, like every other university in China, can’t even tell the truth about its own history. How many of its students and teachers were killed 20 years ago? They can never hope to earn an ounce of respect until they learn to tell the truth.
BeiDa and Tsinghua, across the street from each other, are the Harvard and MIT of China, and yet they are dirty, filthy, polluted places with raw, stinking sewer running through their Qing Dynasty canals. Their students download graduation dissertations while their teachers find any opportunity to make some money. There is no independent, objective publication of academic articles in China – just politically arrogant presses pushing out shallow, self-praising ideas in an attempt to appear academic. The lowest ranked universities in the US have far superior education.
The whole educational system is so worthless that it’s no wonder why so many students wish to go overseas, but lack the money, of course. Those who have the money go. Good for them.

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:11:45 +0000

Dutch media have been informed; we’ll have to see if they will pick it up somehow. Meanwhile I would be willing to transfer all my chips to the stack of a pregnant 14 year old. And I would suggest to her to go ‘all-inn’ this round. But then again, I feel that I don’t have that much to lose. Yet the pot size seems enormous in this case…

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Китайцы ищут таланты: Новая система поступления в ВУЗ / Новости Китая / Магазета — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:45:44 +0000

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By: j3welz

j3welz — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:18:02 +0000

I have to say they’re screwed either way. If they continue with the gaokao system, then students are just going to be studying like mindless zombies and not actually know how to critically think. If they choose to reform the system and include recommendations from principals, then people will blame it on corruption.

By: jay

jay — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:45:20 +0000

I mean principals*

By: jay

jay — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:44:35 +0000

I can’t seem to figure out if this is because Chinese are deliberately fueling corruption, or they genuinely cant find a better way to implement due process through rotating comitees.

I’m sure they thought of it, but maybe the big BJ just said, fuckit, we don’t want to spend money on having a standing commitee. It would have to be a huge committeeIts cheaper and makes better guanxi to give all professors the authorita to issue golden tickets.

I’m sure the principals, like most good chinese would never sell the ticket to the highest bidder, or solicit services from students for a free pass right? They would never tell an incoming freshmen that if she came over everynight to take care of uncle, she would get a golden ticket when she graduates right? Maybe just a carwash is good enough.

But at least they are doing something. the process needs to be balanced out. All it takes is one pregnant 14 year old with the courage to stand up to the pressure to come forward and give her story to prompt a correction. Maybe free passes sold on TaoBao would work too. I give it 2 years for overhaul.

By: pug_ster

pug_ster — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:41:40 +0000

I thought it is more like how GWB 43 got into Yale because his Dad is politically connected.

By: Wangwei

Wangwei — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:53:01 +0000

Something tells me that without the supporting mechanisms (ie. press, transparency, etc) the ‘c’ word* will find its way into the mix within months.

* I mean corruption

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Hao Hao Report — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:28:45 +0000

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