Graduates posing on a football field at Yuncheng University in Shanxi province on Sunday.
This year, a record 7.27 million graduates will enter China's job market, which has a shortage of skilled workers. Yet many university and college students are ill-equipped to fill those jobs. This has prompted the government to look at how it can overhaul the higher education system.
After 13 years of a policy to expand academic colleges, China had almost seven times as many freshmen last year as in 1998.
That rapid growth compromised the quality of education, especially in colleges established after 1999, experts say.
This article was first published on June 11, 2014.
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