Diplomatic opportunities for local graduates
24/8/2004 10:14
Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news
Shanghai's fresh
university graduates of 2005 may have the opportunity to start a diplomatic
career if they pass the recruitment test given by the nation's Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
MFA plans to recruit 202 civil servants next year, mostly
from the Year 2005 graduates of 91 prestigious universities nationwide,
including nine in Shanghai, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.
The nine
local universities are Shanghai Jiao Tong, Fudan, East China Normal, Tongji,
Shanghai, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai Teacher's, East
China University of Science and Technology and the East China Politics and Law
Universties.
Students eligible for the recruitment test need to demonstrate
an excellent academic performance with academic rankings among the top one-third
of their classes and have passed the Grade Six level of the College English Test
if they are not already English majors.
Once recruited, most of them (165)
will be involved in foreign affairs and the others (37) in administrative
work.
Students can sign up to apply for the test from August 20th to
September 5th on MFA's official website www.mfa.gov.cn where they will need
tofill out an application form.
After September 16th, they can log on to the
website to check whether they have qualified.
The date of the test was not
revealed in the Shanghai Morning Post report.
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