May 19, 2006

The Long Road Ahead for China's Universities

By PAUL MOONEY

The government has pumped billions into higher-education reform, but money alone is unlikely to fix the problems

Last September, Wang Yin wrote an open letter to Tsinghua University, explaining his reasons for dropping out of its doctoral program in computer science. He was just nine months short of graduation and the start of what should have been a successful career in China's high-tech business sector.

As soon as he posted his 15-page "The Smashing of the Tsinghua Dream" on

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