>This is what I call the "Doctors in China" problem. Assume that China has announced they need doctors. To be a doctor in China, you need to know two things: medicine and Chinese. Learning Chinese by itself qualifies you in no way to be a doctor in China.
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>Sounds to me as if the universities are concentrating on the Chinese, not the medicine.

I like this comparison! And I think you're right. Only that universities "live" in the same real&unperfect world. So, they have to adapt to the market. Three years ago, when I came to Canada, I was curious and looked into the computer science programs available at McGill University (Montreal). Some of them were interesting and they taught good languages. Unfortunatelly, all of them were useless on today's job market. :(

Vlad