With a rapid increase in the number of Chinese graduates enrolling in PhD programs in the past decade, it seems the quality of education doctoral students in China receive is falling short:
Based on 1,392 questionnaires, the book, China Doctor Quality Survey, by Zhou Guangli, a professor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, shows that China’s doctoral supervisors are heavily loaded, with 46 percent of the respondents supervising seven doctoral candidates at the same time. Around 13 percent of the doctoral candidates in the survey contact their supervisor no more than once a month, and 3 percent of them said they never communicate with their supervisors, the book said.
The number of PhD students in China reached 246,300 in 2009, about five times the figure in 1999. The report slams flaws in the system, reporting that some professors have to supervise up to 47 doctoral candidates simultaneously.
via Doctoral programs seriously flawed, study finds – People’s Daily Online.
