From Reuters via Scotsman.com News:
With the trees in bloom and the sun shining, students strolling the grounds of Beijing’s leafy university campuses shouldn’t have a care in the world. They’ve marked themselves out as China’s best and brightest by winning coveted places in college and are graduating into a country experiencing breakneck economic growth, social change and cultural revival.
A Ministry of Education notice said about one-quarter of last year’s graduates were unemployed and outlined remedial steps including controlling the increase in university enrolment and encouraging students to look for work outside the big cities.
More than 55,000 students took the government up on the offer and went to work in less developed western provinces, the official Xinhua news agency has said, lured in part by favourable policies including pledges to cancel their debts in compensation. [Full Text]