Traditionally all students were recruited under state plans and assigned to designated jobs after graduation. In the latter half of the 1980s, however, universities and colleges began to recruit " market adjusted" students, including people accepted for training under contracts with enterprises and other organizations.
The retreat from a planned economy has accelerated in the 1990s, and the government has accordingly abolished the distinction between market-adjusted students and traditional students. It has also decided to grant freedom of employment to the vast majority of students. These moves mark the de facto end of the planned-training system. Reforms have already been implemented on a trial basis in some universities and colleges, with a view to full implementation by the year 2000.
