hmm hmmmmm what has been happening on campuses lately that might cause foreign customers with an eye on value reconsidering sending their kids here hmm must be trumphttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/us/international-enrollment-drop.html …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
do those stories actually get play in the international press?
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Replying to @nickchk
I have no idea, I'm mostly focused on dark ages europe these days does seem like if you're just going to spitball theorize in your empirical section you might mention it tho
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Replying to @eigenrobot
yeah me either. i haven't read the paper. my working theory for a while has been that chinese universities are slowly improving in quality/prestige and oh dang when that catches on
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Replying to @nickchk
yeah, my actual (weak) prior is that growing competition abroad and a domestic supply glut are the important factors
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Replying to @eigenrobot @nickchk
More Hypotheses (not mutually exclusive): 1: emigration motivated by Xi's anticorruption campaign is slowing down 2: aging population despite end of 1 Child Policy 3: Xi's ideological tightening means Western edu is more suspect except (maybe) for offspring of elite CPC
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4: falling premium to PRC college edu relative to noncollege edu also applies to foreign grads who return to PRC 5: rise of academic cheating/plagiarism in West cheapens its value as PRC has cracked down it
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6: Western academic disillusionment w/ liberalising PRC thru engagement & realisation that PRC has been influencing former to accomodate PRC academic norms (eg Confucius Institutes, publishers' selfcensorship, CPC monitoring of its student emigres) is causing Western backlash
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wow see I would read this article
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