How can there be any "Tiankeng" professional dreams and interests are the key to success
The first criterion for filling in the application and choosing a major should be the candidate's interest. Choosing schools and majors based on interest will promote students to learn their majors well in college.
However, at present, many schools in my country's basic education stage do not pay enough attention to the cultivation of students' interests. Students cannot clearly state their professional interests when filling out the college entrance examination, and they are easy to follow the trend.
Xiong Bingqi, Dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute
"There is a popular saying in society that 'biochemical and environmental materials' is the 'four major tiankeng' majors. Among the existing undergraduate majors in West Lake University, the 'four major tiankengs' account for three. What do you think of this?" At the online seminar of Westlake University, some netizens asked Shi Yigong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of Westlake University, a frank question.
Shi Yigong responded that he had just heard about the "Four Tiankeng" majors two or three weeks ago.
He believes that the so-called "tiankeng" major refers to the unsatisfactory employment and income situation of related majors, but these are determined by the relationship between supply and demand, and any major has a market supply and demand relationship.
Westlake University aims to recruit senior two and senior three students. When choosing a major, you need to consider hobbies, not income, because dreams and interests are the key to the ultimate success.
In recent years, the saying that biology, chemistry, environment and materials are the "four major Tiankeng" majors has been widely circulated among college students.
So, is the "Four Tiankeng" majors really as "pits" as netizens say?
Professional "pit or not" also depends on the situation
"From the beginning of freshman year, some seniors told us that there are only two ways out for the major of bioengineering. One is to study for a doctorate, and the other is to change careers." Lin Shu (pseudonym), an undergraduate who graduated from a science and technology university, told a reporter from Science and Technology Daily. Said that the counterpart work of bioengineering basically requires strong scientific research ability and doctoral degree, but there are always a small number of students with scientific research talent, so many undergraduate and master graduates of this major have chosen to change careers.
Lin Shu's alumni, Peng Fei (pseudonym), majored in environmental science.
After graduating from an undergraduate degree, he was admitted to a postgraduate study at Peking University. He is about to graduate with a master's degree this year and also shared his views with reporters.
"Actually, it is not absolute to say that the employment of 'biochemical environmental materials' is not absolute, but it should be discussed in different professional directions. For example, the direction of medicine and pharmacy in the biological science major is still relatively popular in the market, and the water direction in the environmental science major It is also easier to find a job." Peng Fei said that in addition to the impact of professional orientation on employment, the employment situation of graduates from different schools and departments may also vary.
The concept of "tiankeng" profession should not be abused
Frank Young, an answerer in the workplace field of an online platform, recalled that the voice of “professional persuasion” arose in the online community before 2014, initially focusing on biology and chemistry majors, and then environmental and materials majors also joined the “Tiankeng”. "Row.
"I am against the abuse of the concept of 'tiankeng'. In recent years, there have been voices of 'dissuade' in various majors, and some people even claim that majors other than the Internet and finance are 'pits'." Frank Young emphasized.
He analyzed that there are many reasons for the concept of "Four Tiankeng".
On the one hand, there are many major categories and branches and the enrollment scale is large, so the number of students who are dissatisfied with their majors is correspondingly more, and the number of voices online will also be more; on the other hand, there is a gap between the expectations and reality of students in these majors Many students think they have a lot of room for professional development when they enter the school, and their salary and benefits are promising in the future, but when they graduate, they find that their professional counterparts have average job benefits. This psychological gap makes graduates feel "falling into the pit". .
"If students are allowed to have a clear understanding of the employment prospects of the major when choosing a major, and eliminate the psychological gap, the 'pit' will naturally be smoothed out." Frank Young said.
When choosing a major, focus on interest and long-term planning
"The statement of 'Tiankeng' major is to look at the professional system of colleges and universities from a utilitarian perspective, and it is also to instill their own ideas into others, driving some candidates and parents to blindly pursue the so-called popular majors." 21st Century Education Research Institute Chang Xiong Bingqi believes that the "Tiankeng major" debate on the Internet reflects people's different attitudes about majors. It is normal to have different opinions, but if only one concept is dominant, it will inevitably appear biased and mislead students and parents. professional choice.
For example, Xiong Bingqi said that during the 2020 college entrance examination, Zhong Fangrong, a Hunan girl who scored 676 points, finally chose to apply for the archaeology department of Peking University, which caused a lot of heated discussion among netizens.
Some netizens advised her not to choose an archaeology major, but to choose some "making money" majors, such as economics and management.
Many high-scoring students in our country choose to apply for economics and management majors, but from the perspective of the actual supply and demand relationship, economics and management majors already belong to the majors whose talent training supply exceeds social demand.
Blindly pursuing the so-called popular majors will instead fall into the "tiankeng".
Xiong Bingqi believes that the first criterion for filling in the application and choosing a major should be the interest of candidates. Choosing schools and majors based on interest will promote students to learn their majors well in college.
However, at present, many schools in our country's basic education stage do not pay enough attention to the cultivation of students' interests. Students cannot clearly state their professional interests when filling out the college entrance examination, and they are easy to follow the trend.
"From the perspective of colleges and universities, in order to pursue the scale of running a school, some colleges and universities have not combined their own school-running positioning and school-running conditions, etc., to strictly demonstrate the majors they should open, the scale of students to be trained, and how to ensure the quality of personnel training, etc. This has led to some professional teaching. The quality is not high. Therefore, when choosing a major, students and parents should carefully analyze various factors such as teachers, courses, and training models of schools and majors, and make long-term plans based on their own conditions.” Xiong Bingqi said.