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Monday, August 28, 2006

Foreign Peril

My new job is bringing me into contact with a whole load of programs that are designed to give foreign students some Western business practive experience, including some MBA programs. We are dealing with Chinese students in particular.

Apparently one of the problems that many recruiters face is the fact that the Chinese government has refused to fund programs offered by private providers. They have found that some unscrupulous providers of programmes and qualifications, and so have only allowed state funding of programs from state or public institutions.

Although this is understandable, it is somewhat unfortunate as it means that some really good programs are going to be missed by students who could benefit from them. It is yet another reason why it is important to identify institutions that don't follow the rules.

# posted by Mary @ 2:22 PM

Comments:

Hooy, boy, rather you than me on that. As with so many of us who worked in Moscow those years back, trying to teach "western business practice" to people whose culture is directly inimical to such is horribly difficult.
But on the finding of MBA programs I think that’s actually rather funny. A private MBA program won’t get the Chinese students funded but a publically run institution will?
So Harvard Business School gets no Chinese students but Buffalo Community College does?
Or are they a little more perceptive than that, realizing that it’s only in the lower levels of the private (or publically run) system that they need to worry?
I’d love to know the answer to that actually: is it a truly blanket prohibition? Or done with some nuance, you know, as if someone who’d been through an MBA program designed it?

# posted by failingeconomist : 8:51 AM

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