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March 16, 2010 - 9:48 pm
Tags: afraid, interview, nervous
Posted in Life perspective, interview skills | No Comments
If you just received a call from a potential employer informing you of an interview next Monday, how would you be feeling?
Excited. Anxious.
Before long, as the day gets nearer, you will start to feel nervous, if you are like most people.
While you are busy feeling nervous and, hopefully, doing good research about the employer, the [...]
March 5, 2010 - 4:36 pm
Tags: AIDA, cover-letter, get your foot in the door, job application letter, job-hunting
Posted in Job-hunting Tips | No Comments
How have you been writing your job application letters (or “cover-letters” as most of us know it)?
A lot of job hunters do not think that a cover-letter is necessary unless it is specifically asked for in the job advertisement.
WRONG.
Even if the job advertisement asks only for your resume, it is a given that your resume [...]
February 24, 2010 - 6:55 pm
Tags: acidic, alkaline, energy, food, Health, poison
Posted in Blog, Health | No Comments
I walked past the doctor’s clinic last week on the 4th day of Chinese New Year and saw its waiting room filled with people.
I wonder if you noticed such a phenomenon, the doctor’s business is always the best after major holidays like Christmas, New Year, and Chinese New Year.
This is interesting because aren’t people supposed [...]
February 19, 2010 - 10:41 pm
Tags: china, graduates, middle-class, poverty, youth
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News from Reuters.com
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61H01220100218
Some say these struggling college graduates who swarm out of their cramped accommodations and head to work in the urban sprawl each morning are reminiscent of worker insects in a colony. Not surprisingly, they are often referred to as China’s ant tribe.
The growing ranks of ‘worker ants’ poses a policy [...]
February 10, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Tags: balanced resource allocation, education in china
Posted in Blog, News, Sharing | No Comments
Original new fulltext at http://www.zaobao.com/zg/zg100209_001.shtml
教育资源过度向大中城市和重点中学集中,使农村中小学严重萎缩,也使众多农民及普通市民子女失去通过学习改变命运的机会。
于泽远 报 道
北京
中国总理温家宝近日提出,中国力争用10年左右的时间,基本完成义务教育均衡发展,使教育资源更多向农村地区、边 远贫困地区和民族地区倾斜,确保每个适龄儿童少年不因家庭经济困难等原因而失学。
中国教育界的乱象由来已久,主要包括教育资源分配严重 不公、中小学教育完全依附于高考指挥棒、大学学术腐败、各级学校管理官僚化等等。其中,教育资源过度向大中城市和重点中学集中、使农村中小学严重萎缩,也 使众多农民以及普通市民的子女失去通过学习改变命运的机会,因此有学者指出,中国最大的不公其实就是教育不公。
2008年8月底,中国 开始制定面向2020年的《国家中长期教育改革和发展规划纲要》,并成立了由温家宝任组长的领导小组。一年多来,官方通过调研、专设网络讨论区、组织网民 座谈会、发动媒体参与等形式,数十次易稿,形成了纲要初稿。温家宝近日也连续举行五次教育座谈会,听取社会各界人士、尤其是教育界人士对纲要初稿的意见。
温家宝说,教育公平是最基本、最重要的社会公平。中国教育要解决的主要问题,一是教育公平,二是教育体制改革。
教育部高官日前也公开 表示,将力争区域内义务教育在2012年实现初步均衡,到2020年实现基本均衡。
有关学者并不乐观
不过,有关学者对10年内实现义务教育均衡发展的目标并不乐观,因为地方政府在教育投入上向来重城市轻农村,最多会把“教育均衡发展”理解为在现有 格局上 的均衡,不大可能将更多的教育资源投向农村和边远贫穷地区。实际上,很多地方政府一直把全面免费义务教育制度当作一种“施舍”,农村地区的义务教育经费时 常被挤占挪用,造成城乡学校之间、重点学校和普通学校之间的财政投入差别巨大。
同时,城市中小学择校之风盛行,一些重点学校由于高升学率不仅享 有更多的教育投入,那些有权、有钱或有门路的家长也纷纷把子女送往这些学校,拉大了重点学校与普通学校之间的差距,加重了教育不公。
近 年来,舆论对于各级学校的官僚化、学术腐败、权学交易等现象也多有批评。中国科技大学原校长朱清时在座谈会上向温家宝建议,高校必须以教授为主导,改变当 前依靠行政权力治校的局面。
温家宝说,官方今后将扩大学校的办学自主权,要以教学为中心,发挥教师的主导作用和学生的主体作用,改变教 育的行政化倾向。同时,大力倡导教育家办学,发挥教育家的办学才能和特长,让那些有终身办学志向的人不受任何名利干扰诱惑,把自己完全献身于教育事业。
温家宝还强调,要实现教育的科学发展,必须进一步解放思想,敢于冲破传统观念和体制机制的束缚,树立现代办学理念,在人才培养、考试招生、办学体 制、管 理体制等方面进行大胆创新,允许实验和探索。
北京有关学者指出,要改变学校的官僚化倾向必须取消各级学校的行政级别,改变由党政部门自 上而下的校长任命制,实现学生为本、教师治校,校长由教师选举等多种形式产生。这不仅要涉及党政如何掌控学校这一核心问题,还要调整一大批现有制度受益者 的利益,可谓困难重重,绝非短期能做到的事情。
这名学者说,以大学引入教师和行政岗位竞争机制为例,很多大学已经喊了好些年,但目前中 国内地还没有一所大学真正引入能上能下的岗位竞争机制。原因说起来并不复杂:这些大学都是有行政级别的单位,“能上不能下”这一官场规则在大学里同样适 用。
February 8, 2010 - 12:11 pm
Tags: happiness, heart attack, heart disease, job satisfaction, Monday blues, nulcear physics, time
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Is it Monday already? How did the weekend fly by so quickly?
Well, they say that “time flies when you are having fun” and this, according to nuclear scientists, is actually a literal phenomenon.
Whether you are a working professional or studying student, you would have felt that a typical weekday can be such a drag while [...]
January 28, 2010 - 10:17 pm
Tags: education, lessons, life, schools, subjects
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Did you ever have this thought in mind while going through school:
WHY ARE THEY TEACHING THIS?
Well, perhaps at that moment, you didn’t think of this question since school is *supposed to be* a place where you do what you are told. Well, at least in primary school. Then, in high school, you were taught more [...]
January 26, 2010 - 10:57 pm
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I read this little piece of news last week on The Standard in Hong Kong.
http://tinyurl.com/yk4f2ov
Another one of the myriad, innovative ways people, students included, are cheating in mainland China. It sure seems like they are very determined and will stop at nothing to get what is perceived to be ”must-haves” for them. How nice if such focused [...]
January 26, 2010 - 12:10 am
Tags: post-80
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We hear and read so much about the post-80’s generation these days. Other than the high profile “activists” in the recent rail saga, here’s one of those reports by The Standard on the psyche of Generation Y:
http://tinyurl.com/yg5wqzv
http://tinyurl.com/yhsyd23
I am Gen-X and have 2 brothers who are Gen-Y and can see clearly how we are quite different [...]
January 25, 2010 - 11:10 pm
Tags: market, prospects
Posted in Blog, Job Skills, Life skills | No Comments
I often get questions such as:
“What are the employment prospects these days?”
“What are the hot industries?”
“Who is hiring?”
Employment (or unemployment) statistics are just good conversational topics but they are not worth following for your career planning.
The only employment statistic you should care about is either 0% or 100% – that is, are you employed or [...]