At present, the phenomenon of overeducation has emerged in China, such as the heavy burden of schoolwork on students and the difficulty of choosing a career for graduates, resulting in a crisis of academic overload and the whole society being overwhelmed by the pressure of "involution". From "inadequate education" to "academic overload" is a major shift in the development of education in China. However, the overeducation behind "academic overload" has had a negative impact on the development of education, causing not only "intellectual unemployment" but also exceeding the needs of students' healthy physical and mental growth. How to solve the academic overload crisis has become an urgent issue. Based on the current situation of education, this paper analyses the causes and dangers of overeducation from the basic education to higher education levels to propose measures in different terms.

Zhou Wenjing. Research on the Problem of "Overeducation" in China. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 12: 76-83. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2023.051213.

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