Young professor committed suicide under heavy workload

时间：2007-02-07 00:50:00

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Chinanews, Guangzhou, Feb.6 – On January 20, a professor from the School of Management at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou killed herself by jumping from a balcony on the fifth floor of a college faculty's apartment building at four o'clock in the morning. She was just 45. Another college teacher also jumped from the same building six months earlier to commit suicide. Their deaths were attributable to the heavy workload1 placed on college teachers, according to Liu Jixian, a member of the Provincial2 Committee of the CPPCC from the Guangdong Provincial Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomingtang.

 

The high work quotas4 set on college teachers directly caused their deaths, the Nanfang Daily quoted Liu as saying.

 

Liu said that the dead professor, Ouyang Jie, was a tutor for postgraduate5 students, while she was also studying for her Ph.D. degree. As a teacher, she had to give lessons to undergraduates, postgraduates6 and students studying for MBA courses. In addition to this, she also had to finish her doctoral thesis so that she could be a doctor tutor.

 

As a doctor tutor himself, Liu severely7 criticised the current work quota3 system.

 

“At present, all college teachers have to finish their workload that is simply assessed by some quantity criteria8 written on papers. These papers state that teachers with certain academic titles should accomplish such and such work in a semester, write how many essays and get those essays published, and accomplish how many research projects, regardless of teachers’ different capabilities9 in certain fields. In fact, some teachers might excel at writing essays, while others might be good at teaching. However, teachers’ different capabilities are all obscured by several sheets of paper,” Liu said.

 

He said that some media originally attributed the young professor’s death to her divorce.

 

“That might be one of the reasons for her death. In fact, she got divorced a decade ago, not recently.”

 

To Liu, it was the heavy workload that made her crack up in the end.

 
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1 workload fVCzw     
n.作业量，工作量
参考例句：
  • An assistant one day a week would ease my workload.每周有一天配一个助手就会减轻我的工作负担。
  • He's always grousing about the workload.他总是抱怨工作量大。
2 provincial Nt8ye     
adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人
参考例句：
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
3 quota vSKxV     
n.（生产、进出口等的）配额，（移民的）限额
参考例句：
  • A restricted import quota was set for meat products.肉类产品设定了进口配额。
  • He overfulfilled his production quota for two months running.他一连两个月超额完成生产指标。
4 quotas 56efa1d6a3d7b4abe55e080dda812715     
（正式限定的）定量( quota的名词复数 )； 定额； 指标； 摊派
参考例句：
  • In fulfilling the production quotas, John made rings round all his fellow workers. 约翰完成生产定额大大超过他的同事们。
  • Quotas of the means of production are allocated by the higher administrative bodies to the lower ones. 物资指标按隶属关系分配。
5 postgraduate ulMzNh     
adj.大学毕业后的，大学研究院的；n.研究生
参考例句：
  • I didn't put down that I had postgraduate degree.我没有写上我有硕士学位。
  • After college,Mary hopes to do postgraduate work in law school.大学毕业后， 玛丽想在法学院从事研究工作。
6 postgraduates 9410af3c5282f9b20b3476d2b0db8baf     
研究生( postgraduate的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Professor Zhu will give lectures to the postgraduates [graduate students] this term. 朱教授这学期给研究生开课。
  • These postgraduates were a very talented group. 这些研究生是一群天分很高的学生。
7 severely SiCzmk     
adv.严格地；严厉地；非常恶劣地
参考例句：
  • He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
  • He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。
8 criteria vafyC     
n.标准
参考例句：
  • The main criterion is value for money.主要的标准是钱要用得划算。
  • There are strict criteria for inclusion in the competition.参赛的标准很严格。
9 capabilities f7b11037f2050959293aafb493b7653c     
n.能力( capability的名词复数 )；可能；容量；[复数]潜在能力
参考例句：
  • He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities. 他有点自大，自视甚高。 来自辞典例句
  • Some programmers use tabs to break complex product capabilities into smaller chunks. 一些程序员认为，标签可以将复杂的功能分为每个窗格一组简单的功能。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

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