Orchis Tower

Global Voices have a disconcerting piece about the current run on job fairs in China. It seems that even before graduation chinese students have to not only enter but fight their way into a cut throat white collar labour market. With university graduates now as abundant as industrial workforce used to be (2.4 million graduates from tertiary education in 2006), there is growing discrimination against women and - hepatitis B patients…! Now and again you hear about unrest among students because the reputation of their degrees is decisive in securing them a decent job. New York Times’ David Brooks has recently published an opinion piece on the disparity between the top-down, corpocrate, memorization-based chinese educational system and the coming demands of an economy that is shifting its focus from manufacturing to service. Media is certainly part of this process.