what's the situation of Chinese people's quick success in Korea? According to the basic statistics of education in 2018 released by the Ministry of education of the Republic of Korea on January 13, Chinese students accounted for 48.2% (6853700) of Korean students in 2018. Among them, the main group of doctoral students in South Korea is in-service teachers in Colleges and universities in China. Chinese college teachers go to South Korea to study for a doctorate. How can they panic South Korea? You must have a look at this quick doctor's business experience.
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In recent years, the number of Chinese who come to Korea to read blogs has increased sharply.
According to the data released by the South Korean Ministry of education on May 19, a total of 3636 Chinese students came to South Korea to study for doctoral degrees in 2018, almost doubling from 1906 in 2013, and most of them are Chinese University Teachers with master's degrees.
This phenomenon is most obvious in Jeonju University in South Korea. Quanzhou university took the lead in 2012 and signed a contract with the Department of education of Hebei Province, China. In 2013, Quanzhou University opened a special class. In the first year, 7 Chinese University Teachers with master's degrees were recruited, and thereafter, the scale was maintained at 7-8 every year.
Yuanguang University, which belongs to quanluo Beidao area with Quanzhou University, is a large number of Chinese doctoral students. As of October 2018, more than 150 Chinese university teachers have studied for doctoral degrees in the University.
In the same year, Quanbei National University held a special welcoming ceremony to welcome 24 university teachers from 11 universities in China to study for their doctoral degrees, and named the project "dragon project".
South Korea's Local City University, represented by Quanzhou University, is actively recruiting Chinese university teachers to study for a doctorate in South Korea. In September 2018, many Korean media such as national daily and Culture Daily reported one after another.
At the same time, in order to help Chinese university teachers adapt to the life of studying abroad, Korean universities have also taken various auxiliary measures.
For example, Quanzhou University selects host families and implements one-to-one assistance; Quanbei National University calls on Chinese students to act as translators for Chinese university teachers. In the face of surging Chinese students, Korean universities have also opened courses taught in Chinese or professors with Chinese communication skills.
However, the "doctoral crash course" held by some South Korean universities is suspected of "selling degrees".
In 2018, after a local university was found to recruit Chinese students to study for a doctoral degree, it arranged for them to complete a semester's course within 12 days (usually 4 months), which triggered a heated debate - can people believe the diploma of a Korean university?
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Korean local universities actively attract Chinese University Teachers with only master's degrees to study for doctoral degrees in Korea to deal with the student source crisis.
"In order to compete for students and ensure financial revenue, Korean universities do not hesitate to become an academic factory for Chinese people," said an editorial in East Asia daily on May 20.
In 2017, there were 196 four-year universities and 137 colleges in Korea. About one fifth of them are public schools and the rest are private schools.
Apart from a few private universities supported by powerful consortia, such as chengjunguan University backed by Samsung and Central University relying on Doosan group, for many private universities in the middle and lower reaches, the source of students is their business pillar.
Due to the low fertility rate, the number of South Korean students has decreased, which has exacerbated the shortage of students in South Korean universities.
South Korea's average fertility rate in 2017 was 1.05, ranking the lowest in the world. It is expected that the actual enrollment of students in 2021 academic year will be 56000 fewer than that of universities.
The decreasing source of students and the limited room for tuition increase have led to the difficult enrollment and financial situation of some local urban universities and even universities in the capital circle. The South Korean government predicts that 38 universities will close due to enrollment difficulties in the next three years.
Therefore, Korean universities provide a way to 'buy' doctors. AI financial news agency found that going to Korea to read blogs is a relatively complete industrial market. With a tuition fee of about 170000 yuan and an intermediary fee of 18000 yuan, you can buy a doctoral degree of about 200000 yuan.
The intermediary keenly sniffed out business opportunities. According to Hanqiao education's' 2018-2019 doctoral study in Korea for in-service teachers of Chinese colleges and universities' project, the class time adopts the centralized teaching semester system, and classes are arranged every winter and summer holidays; The teaching method is centralized face-to-face teaching, Korean teaching and Chinese translation; Finally, I got a full-time certificate.
Promotion must be a doctor
While the Korean media criticized Korean universities as the factory of Chinese academic qualifications, Chinese universities need to reflect.
The number of doctoral graduates from overseas colleges and universities is an important index for colleges and universities in China to evaluate the quality of teachers, pointed out Xiong Bingqi, vice president of the 21st Century Institute of education.
Moreover, in order to improve this index, China's colleges and universities, including the construction of 'double first-class' colleges and universities, have also issued rigid regulations on the promotion of positive and senior professional titles, which must have overseas university learning experience and doctoral degree.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of education, there are 1.63 million university professors in China, of which only about 400000 have doctoral degrees. In other words, more than 75% have a master's degree or below.
This forces university teachers who have only a master's degree or have no previous experience of studying abroad to find ways to obtain experience of studying abroad, preferably a doctorate from a foreign university. This demand just gives hope to some South Korean Universities suffering from lack of students and income constraints, and the two sides hit it off.
Many Chinese universities have selected teachers to study for doctoral degrees in South Korea. On March 1, Hebei Institute of media held a farewell ceremony for the first batch of doctoral teachers in Korea; On February 23, Zhangjiakou University held a farewell ceremony for the first batch of doctoral teachers in Korea; On November 20, 2018, Langfang Normal University issued a public announcement on the selection of teachers from the school of foreign languages to study for a doctorate in Korea & hellip& hellip;
Don't our colleges and universities know that the rapid completion of doctors is not good for improving the quality of teachers? Of course colleges and universities know. Xiong Bingqi pointed out that what some colleges and universities care about is not to improve the quality of teachers, but to build the political achievements of building a team of teachers.
Therefore, Xiong Bingqi believes that the education department should strengthen the certification of doctoral diplomas awarded by Korean universities, but more importantly, it is more important to effectively eliminate the problems of "academic qualification only" and "hat only" in teacher evaluation.
In January 2019, Minister of education Chen Baosheng said at the 2019 national education work conference that the "five only" of "only score, only entrance examination, only diploma, only thesis and only hat" is the fundamental problem existing in the baton of current education evaluation and the most difficult "hard bone" in the current education reform.
The general office of the Ministry of Education issued a notice and decided to carry out the "five only" clean-up in relevant colleges and universities. On April 19, Tsinghua University officially released several opinions of Tsinghua University on improving the academic evaluation system, emphasizing the need to overcome the "five only" tendency in academic evaluation.
Only by breaking the "academic only theory" in teacher evaluation and truly improving the quality of teachers can we better educate college students, especially undergraduates. The Ministry of education has long stressed that the overall plan of higher education is based on undergraduate courses, and that undergraduate courses are not strong and earth shaking.