Next month 6.3 million new university graduates will flood China's already strained job market.
While a highly-educated workforce can be an asset to a developing country, it has also proved to be a burden. Over the past three years, about 30 percent of college grads have found themselves jobless.
This young, restless generation is paired with a government feeling the pressure to come up with a solution. BON's Katie Fischer reports on one alternative.
E.U. DEBT CRISIS: CHINESE REACTION FLOOD MISERY ANGER AND INEQUALITY STABBING SPREE SECURITY BOOST STUDENT BEATING SCANDAL IS IT EVER RIGHT TO HIT STUDENTS? AN ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION
David Moser invites guests to talk about innovation in Chinese design, or the lack of it.
About our guests:
Paul Mooney is an American freelance journalist who has reported on China, Taiwan and Hong Kong since 1985. At various times, he has been on staff at Newsweek, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Eastern Express and Knight-Ridder Financial News. Articles on the web site have appeared in leading publications around the world, including Newsweek, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, International Herald Tribune, South China Morning Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Asian Wall Street Journal and many others. Paul, the author of four travel books on Taiwan and China, has been based in Beijing since 1994.
Wang Min was born in China, 1956. he completed his BA in art at Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Fine Arts) before studying in Berlin and then later earning an MFA at Yale University School of Art in 1986. Since graduating from Yale he has worked at Adobe systems where he developed digital Kanji typefaces (Japanese fonts). Later he worked at a graphic design studio in Connecticut,while continuing in his roles as graphic designer, art director and design manager in the creative services pision at Adobe systems. In 1998, Wang left Adobe to form Square Two Design with Eddie Lee and the consultancy now has offices in San Francisco and Beijing. In 2003 Wang was appointed as the Dean of the School of Design, at China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. After the creation of the Art Research Centre for the Olympic Games (ARCOG) at CAFA, Wang became the design director for the Beijing 2008 Olympic games.
David Moser invites guests to talk about innovation in Chinese design, or the lack of it.
About our guests:
Paul Mooney is an American freelance journalist who has reported on China, Taiwan and Hong Kong since 1985. At various times, he has been on staff at Newsweek, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Eastern Express and Knight-Ridder Financial News. Articles on the web site have appeared in leading publications around the world, including Newsweek, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, International Herald Tribune, South China Morning Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Asian Wall Street Journal and many others. Paul, the author of four travel books on Taiwan and China, has been based in Beijing since 1994.
Wang Min was born in China, 1956. he completed his BA in art at Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Fine Arts) before studying in Berlin and then later earning an MFA at Yale University School of Art in 1986. Since graduating from Yale he has worked at Adobe systems where he developed digital Kanji typefaces (Japanese fonts). Later he worked at a graphic design studio in Connecticut,while continuing in his roles as graphic designer, art director and design manager in the creative services pision at Adobe systems. In 1998, Wang left Adobe to form Square Two Design with Eddie Lee and the consultancy now has offices in San Francisco and Beijing. In 2003 Wang was appointed as the Dean of the School of Design, at China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. After the creation of the Art Research Centre for the Olympic Games (ARCOG) at CAFA, Wang became the design director for the Beijing 2008 Olympic games.
As China races to take its place on the new world stage, many are investing their children’s future in education. Unfortunately, China’s supply of quality education cannot always meet the people’s insatiable demands. Lionel Donovan, III has the latest.