∞ China to cancel jobless college majors

Laurie Burkitt, for the Wall Street Journal:

China’s Ministry of Education announced this week plans to phase out majors producing unemployable graduates, according to state-run media Xinhua. The government will soon start evaluating college majors by their employment rates, downsizing or cutting those studies in which less than 60% of graduates fail for two consecutive years to find work.

Either that, or build more Starbucks.