China's universities turn out 600,000 trained engineers every year. What is that, almost 1600 each day?!
However, a Mckinsey survey of nine occupations including engineers, accountants and doctors found that fewer than one in 10 of those graduates were employable by multinationals.
Can't speak English? Can't get a visa? Can't get along? Didn't learn in school what it says on their transcripts? Wait that last one is for US graduates.
Chinese learn by rote memorization. Engineering seems to rely on theory and problem solving as well as working in teams...not strengths of the Chinese university graduate.
According to the Mckinsey study, maybe one third of those in the Chinese pool are suitable to work at a mulitnational or about 160,000 students equal to the number of students turned out in the UK each year.
But then...can the UK students work at a site in China?
It seems that in time, more work done by multinationals will be done in China by Chinese staff with Chinese supervisors.
I think it is remarkable that any person can bridge the culture and language gap, especially in an engineering job. My hat is off to the Chinese in this regard.
What do you think?
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I do not agree with this: "Chinese learn by rote memorization."
Technology cannot be learned by rote memorization. If anybody chooses to learn by memorization but not "thinking", for sure they will suffer in engineering school.
I was an engineering student in China. I don't see any engineering schoolmates can pass a test by pure memorization.
What qualifies you to say that Chinese learn by memorization?
Posted by: Anonymous | August 11, 2006 10:54 PM | Permalink to Comment