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Ｖｏｃａｔｉｏｎａｌ　Ｔｒａｉｎｉｎｇ：Ａ　Ｋｅｙ　ｔｏ　Ｕｎｌｏｃｋ　ｔｈｅ　Ｊｏｂ　Ｍａｒｋｅｔ 　　Leaders in education have 　　cited the shortage of 　　vocational training slots 　　directly contributes to the problem of unemployment. 　　 　　THE world economic crisis is heightening the tension of young job-seekers in China, with neither migrant workers nor college graduates spared its devastating impacts. Many experts believe widespread lay-offs and joblessness in these groups could be mitigated by the promotion of vocational training. The strategic arguments are persuasive, and challenge common notions about the value of respective kinds of work. 　　 　　 　　Graduates in Oversupply; 　　Trades in Demand 　　 　　Late last year, the Ministry of Education (MOE) gave notice that the master program enrolment capacity must increase by five percent. This is the second time MOE has enlarged the scale of graduate schools, the last being in 1999 when colleges nationwide experienced unprecedented demand for enrolment. That academic achievement is no guarantee of a job was underscored just four years after this first expansion. The swell in the ranks of the college educated ?C to some six million from 1.8 million in 1998 ?C soon brought on the job-hunting difficulties of 2003. Temporary measures such as this are again expected to create a buffer area for job hunters and a way out for struggling graduates, but they could also become the foundation for more proactive human resource development strategies. 　　 　　Some critics feel accepting more students into current college programs will simply postpone a review of what kinds of labor pools a national policy needs to stimulate. An academic preparation “won’t necessarily improve a graduate’s employability, and it certainly doesn’t offer a radical solution to satisfying actual labor market demand,” cautions MOE research fellow Jiang Dayuan of the Research Institute for Vocational Education. “If we can’t jump out of the educational circle to deal with education, if we can’t jump