COLLEGES MUST LOOK WITHIN TO STEM TIDE OF STUDENTS MOVING ABROAD
The number of students who study abroad directly after high school is rapidly increasing, against the backdrop of fewer students sitting for the national college entrance examination. Study abroad used to be the last choice of high school graduates – or the choice of those who failed the exam. But now it has become the priority for many first-class students. By 2008, 1.4 million Chinese students had studied abroad. Of those, only 390,000 returned to China after graduating. It is a big loss of talent for China. A US science magazine described China’s Tsinghua and Peking universities as hot breeding grounds for American PhD candidates.
Source: Xinhua Net
URL: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2010-06/17/c_13354199.htm
