Overseas firms offer scholarships
9/3/2004 14:51
Treating universities as a new recruitment battlefield, overseas
companies have rushed to offer scholarships to local higher educational
institutions, today's Wen Hui Daily reported.
Nearly half of scholarships in
Shanghai universities are offered by foreign enterprises, the report said,
citing a survey from a local university.
By the end of last year, foreigners
funded more than 20 out of the 68 school-level scholarships at Shanghai Jiao
Tong, a local prestige university, and in Fudan, another key university,
foreign-invested companies sponsored 18 of its 45 scholarships.
In Tongji,
half of the 30-plus enterprise-funded scholarships are from overseas
firms.
Since 1995, Samsung Group, a South Korean electronic conglomerate,
offered scholarships in 10 Chinese universities.
While encouraging
outstanding students with the financial rewards, the company also hopes it will
find excellent employees from among the university graduates, according to a
human resources officer with the company.
Meanwhile, the company has improved
its brand recognition among students and become their top choice for employment
after graduation, the officer said.
Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news
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