Let college graduates get out of the "paper employment" dilemma
■ Editorial
For graduates, the last class in college should contain the word "honesty", not "learn how to cheat".
According to Red Star News, recently, the graduate employment rate announced by Central China Normal University has sparked heated discussions.
Its data shows that the graduation rate of the school's 2021 undergraduates is 73.78%, and the unemployed rate is 26.22%.
There is a certain gap between this data and the impression that some colleges and universities are always as high as 95% of the employment rate, but it has been praised by many netizens.
In fact, it has something to do with people's distaste for some colleges' graduate employment statistics that are falsified.
In recent years, the voices from all walks of life for the employment statistics of college graduates to be squeezed have become stronger and stronger. This time, Huazhong Normal University candidly publishes the corresponding data, which hits the pain point of public opinion and is of practical significance.
For a long time, in order to improve the employment data of their graduates, some colleges and universities have even asked students to "get an employment certificate" by "withholding the graduation certificate".
Similar phenomena are emerging one after another, and the phenomenon of graduates' "employment on paper" has been criticized.
So why do schools do this?
Because it seems that high graduate employment figures are not only good for recruiting in the coming year, but can also be rewarded and enjoy a variety of policy benefits.
In other words, the incentive mechanism oriented to increase the employment rate has caused the decision-makers of some colleges and universities to pay too much attention to similar assessment indicators, and coupled with the lack of a perfect supervision mechanism, it is not difficult to realize the fraudulent employment data of college graduates.
In response to the phenomenon of falsification, the Ministry of Education issued a document in 2020, requiring strict verification of the employment data of college graduates, and made it clear that colleges and universities in various places are not allowed to force graduates to sign employment agreements and labor contracts in any way, and are not allowed to send graduation certificates. , degree certificates, and outstanding graduate certificates are linked to graduates signing contracts.
This has curbed the fraudulent behavior of some colleges and universities to a certain extent, but there are still some colleges and universities who have a fluke.
In reality, not all graduates find jobs upon graduation.
On the one hand, many college graduates have to face the process of "path-finding" such as public examinations, internships, and probationary periods after graduation, and it is impossible to sign labor contracts with their employers right after graduation.
What's more, some graduates will choose to take the postgraduate entrance examination in World War II and study abroad. It is obviously unrealistic to ask them to provide employment certificates.
On the other hand, many post-95s and post-00s are not in a hurry to devote themselves to work after graduation due to their relatively wealthy family economic conditions or other life plans.
In this process, some people will choose to study abroad, while others will choose to support teaching, start their own businesses, and engage in flexible careers.
This phenomenon is undoubtedly one of the reasons why the graduate employment data is not high.
This is especially true during the pandemic.
Therefore, Huazhong Normal University is frankly facing the employment data of graduates, and has taken an important step to squeeze the water and reveal the true face of employment data statistics. It is worthy of praise, and it is also something that universities should really do.
But we must also see that this practice should be the most basic operation in colleges and universities, but now it has become a "rare thing", which can not help but make people feel embarrassed.
In the past two years, affected by the epidemic, the employment rate of some college graduates is actually not ideal. This is an objective reality that must be acknowledged.
Faced with such a reality, what colleges and universities have to do is to face it honestly, analyze the reasons based on actual data, and make reasonable adjustments in a targeted manner together with decision-making departments, so as to accurately respond to similar phenomena and help graduates get out of “paper employment”. " predicament.
To be clear, the glossy numbers not only do nothing to help reality, but instead hide the deep-seated contradictions between colleges and the job market.
Therefore, only by bursting the false data bubble in a timely and active manner can we avoid delaying the best time to solve the problem and solve the related problems earlier.
This is also the common expectation of all sectors of society.
In the final analysis, the employment statistics of college graduates should be squeezed out and revealed.
And for those graduates, the last class in college should contain the word "honesty", not "learn how to cheat."