“后悔上大学”传递出的信号-中英文翻译

“后悔上大学”传递出的信号
近日，中国青年报社会调查中心开展了一项有8777人参与的调查，结果显示，34.7%的受访者在谈到自己的大学生活时，都觉得“后悔”。

（8月14日《中国青年报》）
笔者认为，34.7%的受访大学生后悔考上大学，向我们传递了一些非常危险的信号，反映出一些领域的问题已经到了亟待解决的时候了。

第一个信号，就是当前我国高等教育的专业设置、教学内容和考核引导出现了较大偏差，已经不适应社会对高等人才的需要。

“后悔上大学”者的第一个感受就是“没学到什么有用的东西”。

他们不满专业不专，公共课要求太多，抱怨花在英语学习上的时间竟占了一大半。

第二个信号，是我国当前的高等教育存在严重的“投入产出比”不合理现象。

一方面，高校扩招迅速推进了我国高等教育的“大众化”进程，极大地提高了中国民族的整体教育水平，但在段时间内却给学生就业带来了极大的挑战和现实的困难。

另一方面，不断看涨的大学收费，在考验公众经济和心理承受能力的同时，也进一步加剧了高等教育投入产出畸形，强化了学生们的后悔情感。

第三个信号，是在大学生中仍然普遍存在过高的期望值，缺乏对形势的清醒估计和脚踏实地的思想作风。

同日的《中国青年报》还有一项调查数据显示，返乡工作的毕业生中，有51%的人认为，返乡工作是应为没能在大城市找到满意的工作，仅有22%的受访者反对“返乡工作是退而求其次的选择”，51%的人不建议下届的毕业生返乡工作。

这样的选择意愿和期望值明显与国家和社会的需要不相符。

这既是“后悔上大学”的深层思想基础，也是大学生就业结构性失衡的重要原因。

“后悔上大学”传递出的上述三个信号，既有高等教育本身的问题，也有教育管理决策部门的问题，还有大学生自身存在的问题。

在笔者看来，要使大学生不后悔上大学，仅靠一个方面的改善是无法实现的，必须相关各方同步调查
才能保证我国高等教育健康发展。

需要指出的是，“后悔上大学”并不意味着后悔接受高等教育，而是后悔接受了不满意的高等教育，因为大学生也深刻地认识到“上大学后悔一时，不上大学后悔一生”的道理，我们不能因此得出读书无用的结论，而应当根据实际情况改革教育结构和教育内容，调整教育收费，引导学生树立正确的人生观和价值观，转变就业观。

（2006年8月15日《大众日报》）
37.7% Stud ent Regret Uni Decision
The social survey/research centre of China Youth Daily conducted a survey on college education recently and the results are alarming. More than a third(34.7% percent) of the 8,777 students surveyed regretted their decision to attend college/university. The result sends some dangerous signals that should be watched.
First, there are problems in our higher education course set-up, teaching content and exam/examination system. They cannot meet the practical social needs. Most people who regret their coll ege life believe they have not l earned anything useful. {Second, many students find the time and money spent on college did not pay off because they cannot get a proper job after graduation. Expansion of enrolment has pushed forward pop ularization of China’s higher education and improved the nation’s overall educational level. But it also brings great pressure on students’ empl oyment.} Last but not least, may college students have high expectations but lack a correct assessment of the reality or a d own-to-earth styl e of work. Another survey by China Youth Daily further proves this. About 51 percent of the coll ege graduates who go back to work in their hometowns d o so because they can’t find a satisfactory job in big cities and they encourage newlygrads not to return home to work. Such expectations obviously go against social needs. It is the deep-seated ideol ogical base that l eads to their regrets about their college life and leads to an imbalanced empl oyment structure.
The above signals sent by the survey concern the problem of higher education, educational management and the students themselves. All should be adjusted to ensure the healthy d evelopment of China’s higher education.
It should be pointed out that “regret(?) about th eir college life” d oes not mean regretting about receiving higher education. These stud ents also recognize they will be regretting all their life if not going to college.
All that should be d one is to reform educational structure and contents, [adjust tuition fees and costs], and to help students build a correct outl ook on life and values.
(China Daily, Aug. 21st, 2006)。