Will China’s enrolment expansion devalue postgraduate degrees?

I really don't recognise this description Getting masters students in China is not a burden in STEM Maybe it's different in other areas In the Stem areas, academics are desperate to get as many they can. PhD students are quite rare and most of the research is done by masters students The masters is often 3 years with one year of courses, and students are expected to get a couple of papers in SCI indexed journals by the end Indeed, they are usually much better than most PhD students in other systems (especially the UK) Besides which, the masters students are not normally allocated blindly They choose a supervisor, subject to a quota Supervisors grumble that their quota is too low, not too high