Foreign student wants to make a Chinese University through a sponsorship with the Local studies and life easier, reaped but severe criticism. The Reason Is That Adhesion Is Suspected.
China, according to official Figures from the Chinese Ministry of education as a destination for study abroad in the 500,000 young people “from 205 countries,” study, therefore, is currently in China, including over 8000 German.
The entry into the student life in the Seven-million-to facilitate the city of Jinan, called in the year 2014 the international office of the University, which is named after the province of Shandong, a mentoring program. Local students to help fellow students from abroad, on Campus and in the city of Orient. The participation is voluntary. And the program worked until now.
(Archive), Approximately half a Million foreigners studying in China
“Official Matchmaking”
The application form for the mentoring program that has been circulating Recently on the Internet, dispatches, however, unexpectedly, a fierce discussion, for the interested parties will be asked for their motivations. You can click on: “perfecting the knowledge of foreign languages”, “information”, “expansion of the circle of friends” and “I want to win foreign friends”. The last Option is the godfather, “Buddy” called may, also the gender of the foreign students to choose.
“Fix-up show on the Campus!”, critics claim that the Chinese student would seek official support for foreign spouses. “Officially-sponsored pimping” is a customer charge.
The moral decay has, however, recorded no major circuits. According to a survey by the University by November 2018, two-thirds of the 47 international participants of the sponsorship program were male, two-thirds of the 141 participants on the Chinese side of the female sex. To any foreign student three Chinese student would get this interior as “Buddies”. At 43,000 enrolled students, it is not excessive interest in the program.
Graduation ceremony at the University of Wuhan, 2019
Criticism of “privilege” for foreign students
Nevertheless, the University management was to be arranged. The University’s aim for a high degree of internationalisation, the international office. The program will find for foreign students “great encouragement”. The academic and social exchange is at the centre, not the private life.
However, as the discussion swung further up, apologized to the management of the University on the last weekend in the messenger service, Weibo, “for the social debate that arose over the inappropriate wording in the registration form.”
The University of Shandong, is not only because of the alleged “matchmaking programme” in the criticism. State the main media such as Xinhua and people’s daily criticized recently, that “the internationalization of the University of Shandong” is exaggerated by foreign students would be “overly privileged”.
The Shandong University with 43,000 students, is one of the China’s elite universities, the label of “Double Excellence”: excellence, both as a whole Uni as well as in individual disciplines. China wants to promote with this strategy, and international exchange. Meanwhile, one in nine students receive in China from abroad, a state of Full or partial scholarship.
Influence on future decision-makers
China writes build its global Image by trying to influence the future opinion leaders while studying in China, the Beijing political analyst Bai Xin in DW-guest post: “Foreign students are taken care in China, before later taking leadership positions in their home country.”
Especially students would be funded from the riparian countries of the silk road initiative, one of China led multi-billion dollar international infrastructure project leading up to Germany. For the future, Beijing, China, in need of friendly decision-makers, so Bai more.
This is reflected in the real operation of the University, confirmed Shen Ling, a Junior Professor at the East China University of science and technology in Shanghai. Shen was awarded a Ph. D. in Germany, says in a DW Interview: “The audit office has asked me several times to grade foreign students better in order to pass the exams.”
What relates to the sponsorship program of the University of Shandong, it is to be evaluated, before it comes to a new edition. On the question of Motivation is not likely.