Go Figure
So in my perusing the web today, seeking, as always, education-related nuggets to share with you lovelies, I come across this English-language paper out of China, the China Daily.
You know how we're always getting word of how much higher student achievement is there, how their work ethic is more intense and how they leave school far better prepared than kids here in our country?
Well guess what? They apparently don't see it that way. Not exactly anyway. China Daily has a story on its website today about a nationwide survey that revealed a "yawning gap between large investments in education and its returns."
In polling thousands of residents aged 16 to 60, of various levels of education, the study determined that only 16 percent of respondents felt they got their money's worth and that "those with higher education voiced greater disappointment at the quality of education received."
"Even with a master's degree, I failed to find a decent position in big companies," Mao Xin, a 26-year-old Beijing resident, told China Daily yesterday. "My textbook knowledge gave no advantage whatsoever in the competition."
Who woulda thunk?
You can read the whole story here.