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BEIJING - COLLEGE graduates will be asked to leave their Beijing campuses a month earlier than usual this summer, to make way for the Olympic Games, which start on Aug 8, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.
Chinese college students usually head home in late June or July.
Beijing is pulling out all the stops to ensure a perfect Games, including massive construction projects, training cabbies and thousands of volunteers in English, and diverting water from nearby arid provinces.
It has also rounded up dissidents, to avoid any embarrassing criticism up to or during the Games.
Career services officers have been asked to speed up employment counselling, so that graduating students can find jobs earlier than usual, Xinhua said.
Unemployment is a growing concern for the rapidly increasing numbers of college students churned out by China's universities.
Xinhua did not say why the government wants campuses to close a month early.
Graduating students from prestigious schools are more competitive in the job market, Xinhua said, noting that about 1,400 of the 3,800 graduating students from Qinghua University, China's top engineering and technical university, have found positions. -- REUTERS
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