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The article discusses the paper "From the former Soviet patterns towards the US model? Changes in Chinese doctoral education" related to growth and improvement of doctoral education in China. It mentions reforms made at the national and institutional levels to the higher education system of China. It also presents the views of Futao Huang, professor at the Research Institute for Higher Education at the Hiroshima University, on the same.

The article reports that Jeroen Huisman, professor of higher education at the Belgium's Ghent University, has told Times Higher Education that he was approached by official at university in China. He was told that he would be paid a total of 300,000 yuan (£35,703) if he was able to produced total of three journal papers, appearing in Thomson Reuters' Web of Science.

The article discusses Ka Ho Mok and Jin Jiang of Lingnan University's working paper "Massification of higher education challenges for admissions and graduate employment in China." The research published by the Centre for Global Higher Education and graduates in Europe, North America and East Asia negatively affected in terms of employment and social mobility by the expansion of higher education.