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I was asked to develop and education model for teaching Chinese advanced business level English and Create a new model for training and retaining employees in call centers for China Teelcom it blossomed into a larger project of an alternative to Confucian model in place as a first step like our K-12 and hard cuts the opportunities for many based on scores
The primary aspect of the higher education component was the integration of Hiring companies with the students in school so they get the Education and experience while getting a running start at integrating into a career post graduation...
When you have 15 or 16 kids applying for every seat, you can afford to be picky. As an example, Harvard had around 35,000 kids apply for less than 1700 freshman seats. With a yield of over 80% of accepted students, Harvard can accept only about 2000 of those 35000. Yet, probably 10,000 or more of those students are fully qualified to succeed at Harvard. So, even among less-qualified sub-populations, there are plenty of fully-qualified candidates, because of the overabundance of qualified candidates generally.