Originally Posted by JonLaw
Originally Posted by Wren
Job prospects are tied very closely to the major and school you attend in China and people know it. They focus on the job prospect. They take engineering or computer science. They take multiple languages on the side to enhance their prospects.

This is a negative, not a positive.

Agree-- VERY short-term gains from a societal perspective using that model of things.

There is an excellent reason why so many of the top students in STEM still come to North America for graduate work in those disciplines-- it's not to improve their English. It's also not because they lack the ability to build universities in PRC, or that they lack educated people to staff them.




Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.