The annual graduate school entrance examination season is a key turning point for many college graduates with high academic pursuits. After months of preparation, memorization, and mock exams, they finally got their admission to graduate school. It's a time to celebrate, as they step into the next level of academia and chase their dreams.
However, when they prepare to step onto the college campus, they find themselves faced with a huge dilemma: there are no dormitories to live in. This problem not only plagues Xiaonuo at Peking University, but also many outstanding graduate students, who have to solve the accommodation problem on their own and bear the high rent.
It is understood that Peking University and other famous universities have made it clear in the 2024 enrollment brochure that they will not provide dormitories for part-time master's students or orientation students. This is the case in many 985 or 211 universities. An important reason for this situation is the impact of the expansion of university enrollment.
According to the Ministry of Education, as the expansion continues, the number of graduate students admitted nationwide has climbed year by year and has reached 8050,000 people. At the same time, dormitory construction at many colleges and universities has not kept pace with the pace of expansion. Some colleges and universities even adopted the mode of opening up accommodation places because of the lack of dormitories, which led to the paralysis of the school for a while.
In recent years, more and more graduate students have found that graduate school has entered the "era of no dormitory". They have to pay high rents on their own, carry heavy financial pressures, and even have to put part-time jobs ahead of their studies. This not only affects the learning effect of students, but also increases their psychological burden.
In order to alleviate the financial burden on their parents, students like Xiaonuo have to work part-time jobs to make up for the lack of living expenses. However, the time and energy of part-time work inevitably take away from their time and energy that should be spent on their studies, preventing them from fully dedicating themselves to academic research.
In order to solve the problem of insufficient dormitories, some colleges and universities can only choose to shirk their responsibilities and push graduate students out of the school. They claim that graduate students are adults and no longer need dormitories from the university, citing this as a reason for refusing to provide dormitories resources. However, this statement is undoubtedly pale in comparison.
Although some graduate students are willing to choose to rent off-campus, for students from poor families, they cannot afford the high rent, and the pressure of life increases. It is obviously unfair to put them on a heavy financial burden in order to go to graduate school.
Faced with the problem of housing for graduate students, colleges and universities can consider giving students rent subsidies. For example, Fudan University provides graduate students with a transportation subsidy of 800 yuan per month, and Peking University provides students with a subsidy of 500 yuan per month. Although these subsidies are not much, they can at least relieve the financial pressure of students, and at the same time serve as a response and compensation for the needs of graduate students.
In addition, colleges and universities should increase investment in dormitory construction and improve the supply of dormitory resources. At present, many colleges and universities have problems such as insufficient financial allocation in the construction of dormitories, which leads to the shortage of dormitory resources. If the university can continue to increase the investment in the construction of dormitories to meet the housing needs of graduate students, it will undoubtedly bring greater benefits and convenience to the majority of students.
In short, we should pay attention to and think about the issue of universities no longer providing graduate dormitories. Colleges and universities should stand in the perspective of students, put people first, and pay attention to the living needs and welfare of students. Only in this way can every graduate student who is interested in academic research be fully guaranteed and supported, and create a better learning environment for them, so that they can devote themselves to their academic research.