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有这么多中国学生在英国留学，虽然这很是鼓舞人心，新的研究表明，从他们的学习成绩来看，情况并不乐观。英国高等教育统计局（HESA）的最新数据表明，去年全体毕业生中，得到一级荣誉学位和二级甲等荣誉学位的毕业生比例为68%，欧盟国家以外的留学生中比例为52%，而中国留学生中比例仅为42%。 这颠覆了中国学生勤奋努力、成绩优秀的传统形象。巴斯斯巴大学会计与金融专业的高级讲师王志奇（音）是这个最新研究的作者之一，他说，“人们一直在大谈中国教育体系多么优秀，简直就是在鼓吹，于是中国学生到英国留学，你就觉得他们会表现出色。”王说，中国留学生学习成绩不佳原因还不清楚。“中国留学生表现不佳，情况很明显，但我们不知道原因在哪。”为了找出原因，王和他的同事伊恩•克劳福特决定对中国学生和英国本科生每一学年的成绩进行比较研究。他们选取了100名2008年入学的中国和英国会计与金融专业学生作为研究样本，对他们的平均分数和最终学位等级作了比较研究，发现一年级时中国学生比英国学生表现更好，二年级时表现更差，两年之间落差很大。他们之前的获得的学历证明并不能解释其中的原因。 But while the numbers of Chinese students attending UK universities is a success story, new research shows that where their academic attainment is concerned, the picture is not so good. While nearly 68% of all students – and 52% of overseas students from outside the European Union – graduated with a first or 2.1 last year, this was true of only 42% of students from China, according to the latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa). This undermines the traditional stereotype of the hard-working, high-achieving Chinese student. "There is all this talk – almost propaganda – about how brilliant the Chinese education system is, so when they come to the UK you would expect them to do really well," says Zhiqi Wang, senior lecturer in accounting and finance at Bath Spa University and one of the authors of the new research. Wang says the reason for Chinese students' low academic attainment is unknown. "We could clearly see the poor performance of Chinese students at UK universities but we had no idea why it was." So to find an explanation, Wang and Ian Crawford, a teaching fellow in accounting and finance at the University of Bath, decided to compare the performance of Chinese and British undergraduates in each year of their degree. Taking a sample of just over 100 British and Chinese accounting and finance first-degree students who enrolled in 2008, and comparing their average marks and final degree classification, they found a dramatic drop in performance among the Chinese students between year one, when they performed better than their UK counterparts, and year two, when they performed worse. This did not seem to be explained by their previous academic qualifications. |
