Star undergrads get one-on-one tutors
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Transtlate According to a report of Yangtze Evening Post, a daily newspaper in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province on December 27, Nanjing University is planning to carry out a trial program in which outstanding undergraduates in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and computer science will have the privilege of one-on-one tutoring.
Based on the program's success, another nine major universities would then follow suit such as Tsinghua University, Peking University in Beijing, and Fudan University in Shanghai.
Although this program intends to cultivate future leaders in these fields, debate has sparked as to its practicality and effectiveness.
A third year grad student at Beijing Foreign Studies University
I am not supportive of this program. It's nothing but privileged education. Those so-called excellent students get one-on-one tutoring while other students have to share a tutor with about 100 students. It's unfair. Giving priority to privilege is everywhere in China and I don't hope this atmosphere comes to universities as well.
Nie Yunyun
A recent graduate from Beijing Institute of Technology
Although educators have designed this program with good intentions, I really doubt as to whether it can be carried out.
Logistically, where can they find enough staff to teach these students, considering the large number of China's undergraduates?
If undergraduates receive tutoring, how about graduate students who are even in more need?
Xie Zuoxu
A professor of education at Xiamen University, Fujian Province
This program can only cure the symptom, but not the disease. China's exam-oriented education system and university bureaucratization are more urgent matters to be dealt with rather than tutoring.
The present system places more importance on producing papers and stressing quantity over quality. Because the goal is collecting academic titles, this has led to the large number of papers quickly thrown together and serious problems of plagiarism. Without an overhaul of the education system, we can't foster true talent.
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