The Archive · 1934

Move to Employ Graduates

Universities to Set Up Special Organizations Nanking, Aug. 10.

The movement to curtail, unemployment among college graduates has found its fist result in an order issued by the Ministry of Education to colleges and universities through= out China asking them to. setup organizations to help their graduates find employment.

'The Ministry of Education has also announced that it is seeking the ce-operation of the National Economic Council' to establish an advisory" office for ind guiding students on the question of employment.

Meanwhile the movement against unemployment, first. started by. college graduates in Peking, is spread Ing to. other parts of China, Graduates" of the local Central University has issued a state me declaring that it is the duty of the Government. to solve this question, The. statement. reads:—

"We believe that Government has mot done its best to. open all pos~ Sible' "channels of "employment for college graduates, with the. regret-result that many of them: have been denied an opportunity 10 Fender public service."

"it is. conservatively estimated that three Siundred graduates of our University are. without employment, We sincerely request the Govern ment to. find an adequate solution to this pressing question, and we have no objection to any work that will take us. to the Interior rural districts of evento the far-away

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