北大清华抢生源斯文扫地

 　　This is the Education Ministry¹'s first response to recent news story about Peking University's recruitment team in Sichuan province accusing Tsinghua's Sichuan recruiters of "luring² students to Tsinghua with money." The allegations were first published on Sina Weibo and later attracted wider public attention.

　　Xiong Bingqi, Vice³ dean of the 21st century education research institute, says the lack of a proper autonomous⁴ enrollment⁵ system is mainly responsible for the improper⁶ recruitment behaviors.

　　"Under the current college enrollment system, the universities are not authorized⁷ to have independent recruitment. To recruit good students, the universities have only to focus on the scores while having no better evaluation⁸ method of the students' performances. As a result, recruiting personnel will try every means in persuading the students with high scores to choose them while the students are filing their applications."

　　北大清华抢生源斯文扫地

　　Pecking University also implied that Tsinghua's recruitment team called the top 10 scorers of the recent college entrance exams, or gaokao, and lied that PKU would not be able to place them in their desired programs, and says that Tsinghua has broken its promises to perspective students several times in the past five years.

　　Tsinghua's Sichuan recruiter forwarded the post and claimed that PKU was the one that was attempting to "buy" students with money.

　　These posts received thousands of comments and forwards in a short time, quickly climbing to the top of the list among trending topics.

　　It is not the first time top universities launched battles for top students in China. Recruitment teams contact top students even before scores are released, offering them campus tours, inquiring about their desired programs and persuading them to join.

　　Xiong says if Chinese universities do not find a way to improve their overall quality, recruitment will get even harder.

　　"There are three kinds of students who give up during the whole Gaokao process. Those who give up taking the exam mostly chose to study abroad. There are students who give up after taking the exam mostly because they could not get in their desired college. And there are other students who got admitted but decided⁹ not to go. Why do the three kinds of "giving up" exist? It's all related to the quality of our higher education. If the school can't provide high quality education with characteristics, students tend to abandon it."

　　Back in 2012, China's Education Ministry issued regulations forbidding several bad behaviors, including bribery¹⁰, in university recruitment.

1 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

2 luring   

吸引，引诱（lure的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• Cheese is very good for luring a mouse into a trap. 奶酪是引诱老鼠上钩的极好的东西。
• Her training warned her of peril and of the wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring. 她的教养警告她：有危险，要出错儿，这是微妙、神秘而又诱人的。

3 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

4 autonomous   

adj.自治的；独立的

参考例句：

• They proudly declared themselves part of a new autonomous province.他们自豪地宣布成为新自治省的一部分。
• This is a matter that comes within the jurisdiction of the autonomous region.这件事是属于自治区权限以内的事务。

5 enrollment   

n.注册或登记的人数；登记

参考例句：

• You will be given a reading list at enrollment.注册时你会收到一份阅读书目。
• I just got the enrollment notice from Fudan University.我刚刚接到复旦大学的入学通知书。

6 improper   

adj.不适当的，不合适的，不正确的，不合礼仪的

参考例句：

• Short trousers are improper at a dance.舞会上穿短裤不成体统。
• Laughing and joking are improper at a funeral.葬礼时大笑和开玩笑是不合适的。

7 authorized   

a.委任的，许可的

参考例句：

• An administrative order is valid if authorized by a statute.如果一个行政命令得到一个法规的认可那么这个命令就是有效的。

8 evaluation   

n.估价，评价；赋值

参考例句：

• I attempted an honest evaluation of my own life.我试图如实地评价我自己的一生。
• The new scheme is still under evaluation.新方案还在评估阶段。

9 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

10 bribery   

n.贿络行为，行贿，受贿

参考例句：

• FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
• He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。