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recently, shanxi taiyuan preschool teachers college published a number of announcements on the recruitment of doctoral students and admission-related information on its official website, sparking controversy over "mass-produced quick-trained doctorates" (also known as "water doctorates").

according to the public announcement, most of the 10 talents to be introduced are doctoral students who graduated from southeast asian countries, such as adamson university in the philippines, assumption university in thailand, shinawatra international university in thailand, philippine christian university, etc. their majors include art, educational management and leadership, chinese language and literature, management, sports and exercise, education, etc.

list of recruits. photo: shanxi taiyuan preschool education college

on september 24, jiupai news called taiyuan preschool education college several times, but no one answered the phone before press time. according to zhengguan news, the school responded to the recruitment of several phd students studying in southeast asia and said that it would verify with the relevant departments and give a unified reply.

according to the official website of taiyuan preschool education college, the school is a full-time public ordinary preschool education college approved by the shanxi provincial people's government on march 23, 2018 and registered by the ministry of education on may 10, 2018. it is an important base for cultivating and training preschool education and art education teachers in shanxi province and taiyuan city.

the school currently has 329 full-time teachers, including 1 senior second-level professor, 2 fourth-level professors, 88 associate professors, 10 doctoral students and 198 master's students.

the school currently offers 7 teacher training majors, namely, preschool education, early education, primary school english education, music education, dance education, fine arts education, and art education; and 7 non-teacher training majors, namely, tourism english, fashion design and technology, dance performance, infant and child care services and management, youth work and management, traditional ethnic sports (martial arts), and music performance.

according to a previous report by the paper, public data shows that in july 2022, hunan shaoyang university also caused controversy for spending 18 million to introduce 23 doctoral students from philippine universities, whose doctoral graduates were from adamson university in the philippines.

the announcement shows that these 23 doctors completed their doctoral degrees at adamson university in the philippines from august 2019 to 2021. their majors are all philosophy (education). except for an associate professor from the school of music and dance, who was noted as "introduced from outside the school", the other 22 doctors were previously staff members of the school, with titles including lecturer, associate professor, senior experimenter, etc., and the notes are all "graduated and returned to school". in addition to the doctors introduced from outside the school, the other 22 people can receive an introduction package of 844,000 yuan, including introduction fees, scientific research start-up fees, transitional housing subsidies, etc.

jiupai news found that adamson university in the philippines is a private university. the school was included in the list of "strengthening certification review of academic degree certification" by the overseas study service center of the ministry of education in november 2021, and ranked 551-600 in the 2024 qs asian university rankings. some netizens said that adamson university is not a famous local school, and the philosophy major is also average. many netizens said that the doctoral degrees in some non-popular majors of such southeast asian universities are "water phds" and are not of high value.

several deans of secondary colleges of hunan shaoyang university once said in an interview with the beijing news that since it is difficult to introduce domestic doctoral talents, the school selects a group of teachers with master's degrees to study for their doctorates abroad. this will increase the proportion of doctoral degrees in the teaching staff, which will be helpful for the future upgrading of the college to a university and applying for a master's degree.

jiupai news reporter gong lingwei

editor wan xuan li yang