CHINA UNDER PRESSURE TO IMPROVE GRADUATE JOB SKILLS
June 1st, 2009
BY DOMINIQUE PATTON
China is coming under growing pressure to make its graduates more employable as it faces its biggest unemployment crisis in decades.
More than 6 million students will graduate this summer, joining more than 1 million of last year's class who are still unemployed and several million more workers who have lost jobs since the slowdown of the global economy.
Though the economic climate has aggravated the problem, experts say Chinese graduates are anyway ill-equipped for the job market. "We used to think [students didn't get jobs] because ...
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