This year 840,000 students spurned the college entrance examination, which is only an indication of the youth's changing attitude toward higher education and a new trend of social mobility, says an article in Changjiang Daily. Excerpt:

About 7.5 million high school graduates have registered to sit for this year's college entrance examination, scheduled for June 7 and 8. Some 840,000 seniors have decided to give the exam a miss.

Till now, the country's education authority has not broken its silence on why such a large number of school graduates are not keen on going to college.