Orpheus

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:51:32 +0800

This seems to be a good example of China's "selective benchmarking" against Western practices.

nanheyangrouchuan

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:27:20 +0800

And I'm sure the results of micromanaging the gender ratios of each major will have the same positive consequences as micromanaging a national economy.

Herringbone

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:37:50 +0800

I have no problem with affirmative action policies to help underrepresented groups, and if (as the article says) 80% of the students in the foreign language department are female, the boys need all the help they can get. Such an unbalanced male/female ratio makes for an uncomfortable working/studying environment, as any female physicist or male nurse can tell you. The part of the article that confused me was when it said that girls also needed higher scores to get accepted onto science degrees. Surely BeiDa's science departments don't have such a large female majority? Perhaps the exam system just favours girls and this is a way of evening out the scores?

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Orpheus

nanheyangrouchuan

Herringbone