Guangming Daily, China's authoritative paper in culture and education, published a signed article Monday on some problems hidden in the flood of Chinese students rushing to Britain universities and colleges.

A remarkable problem, the article notes, is that most of the students and their parents expect too much on the instant profit from a discipline, and thus most students swarm unanimously to major in finance and trade.

Statistics from a survey by the Times show Chinese students constitute nearly half of the business administration students in the British universities with many Chinese students. However, the Bachelors of Business Administration have the lowest income and the least job opportunity nowadays among the graduates of 15 main specialties among the universities.

Another problem is that Chinese students are prone to fashionable disciplines. Information technologies, for example, were most popular in the past few years and attracted many students, but now the graduates from the disciplines are facing job crises, said Wang Xingcun, director of the London College of Beijing Agricultural University.

Chinese parents should shift their focus on sending children to study abroad for becoming a talent, and as for those students with poor foundation, there is no catholicon at schools abroad, even if their parents spend 200,000 yuan (US$24,100) yearly on them, noted the article by citing Professor Peter, an educational expert with London University.

In recent years studying in Britain is becoming more and more heated. Chinese students constituted the biggest percentage of all the foreign students in Britain in 2001, nearly six times of the number of 3,000 a few years ago.

Some authoritative experts in the Berkeley Universities in the United States reckoned that Britain might replace the United States to be the biggest destination for Chinese students in the coming years.

(Xinhua News Agency February 25, 2002)