When will I have a long tassel?

6 million is not much...

Fan Wenping and Sun Fanzhuo were both speechless.

The company still has money. The annual funding of the school can be said to be hundreds of millions, but most of it is capitation fee, which is used to pay teachers' salaries. After deducting some infrastructure, experimental funds, book purchases, etc., the remaining money is really not enough. too much.

Linji Group dares to make bold claims that it will spend 6 million a year to support 10 students to study abroad. Dongda does not have the confidence. I wonder if the school can squeeze out this money? Even if it has this money, wouldn't it be good to use it to fund teachers' visits abroad?

Don’t get me wrong, this does not mean that school teachers compete with students for resources, but that a teacher is sponsored to go abroad as a visiting scholar, so that when he returns, he can spread the concept of internationalization to hundreds of students. And if it is used to fund a student's study abroad, there is a high possibility that the student will never come back. If you were the principal, how would you choose?

Hey, internationalization?

Just when Fan Wenping thought of this, a thought suddenly flashed across his mind. He looked at Zhang Jianyang, then at Tang Zifeng, and said hesitantly: "Mr. Tang, Mr. Zhang, if your group has sufficient funds, have you ever considered hiring some foreign teachers? "

"Foreign teacher?" Tang Zifeng was startled.

Tang Zifeng had seen such creatures as foreign teachers when he was in college. There were three or five of them in the whole school, and they had a high rate of turning heads when walking on campus. Foreign teachers are generally responsible for foreign language speaking classes, and there are no rigid teaching indicators. During class, they just sit there and chat with everyone. Tang Zifeng thought that it would be enough to find a few red-necked farmers in Texas, USA, to do this job. Maybe it would be more suitable, and he would even be taught American slang.

More than ten years ago, this kind of foreign teacher was still very useful for college students. First, it allowed students to be exposed to real foreign conversation scenes, which was more down-to-earth than listening to those English tapes with complete subjects, predicates, and objects. The second is that it can help students eliminate some of the strangeness or awe of "foreign countries". At least they know that foreigners' knees can be bent. When they study abroad in the future, they will not be afraid of interacting with foreigners.

But in recent years, China has had more and more exchanges with foreign countries, and many people have gone abroad. As for encountering "foreigners" in daily life, it is even more common. There are foreigners in Linji Group all year round, some come for business exchanges, and some come for after-sales service.

In Linyiji, there are several foreigners who have stayed in the factory for several months and have learned to eat barbecue next to the East District market. Some young people in the factory just hang around these foreigners and chat with them in half-baked English, which is called cultivating their sense of language.

With such an environment, what kind of foreign teachers do independent colleges need to hire? Isn’t it enough to take students to eat skewers a few times every now and then?

Thinking of this, Tang Zifeng shook his head and said: "Let's skip this. Spoken English and so on, if you have the opportunity to interact with foreigners in the future, you will be able to practice it naturally. It is somewhat unnecessary to hire a few foreign teachers to teach oral English in the school. .”

"How can this be unnecessary?" Sun Fanzhuo said anxiously, "Mr. Tang, foreign teachers are very useful in improving the quality of the school. Didn't you just ask how science and technology is better than our Dongye University? Every time people evaluate universities At that time, the scores for internationalization were much higher than ours. Didn’t you see that the admissions materials for science and engineering were full of foreign teachers with tall noses? How many candidates went there just for this? .”

"But, what does the international score have to do with us?" Tang Zifeng choked angrily.

Zhang Jianyang explained for him: "Director Sun, you may not know that the state has just issued a notice to large and extra-large enterprises like us, asking us not to blindly pursue foreignization, and it especially emphasizes that we must not flaunt our own ownership in corporate propaganda. How much imported equipment.

"We are now cooperating with Toyo University to run an independent college. The first name is Toyo University Soryu College. If we highlight the high nose you just mentioned in the college's admissions promotion, we may even be criticized by our superiors."

"Director Sun's statement just now is a bit ambiguous." Fan Wenping quickly retreated.

People in different fields do have very different perspectives on issues. The concept of internationalization is common knowledge in university circles. When the principals of various universities gather together for a meeting and talk about the topic of internationalization, no one will raise any questions. Everyone just hates that they have no money, cannot afford to hire foreign teachers, and cannot Send students out on exchange.

But when it comes to companies, internationalization has become something that everyone dislikes. A few tall noses are criticized. What a big deal!

What Fan Wenping didn't know was that criticism of a tall nose had only just happened. Previously, which company was not proud of having imported equipment or having a few tall-nosed engineers?

Even now, companies still like to import equipment, and they still believe that the height of the nose is positively correlated with the level of engineers. Having a few engineers with high noses still makes people feel loyal. The only difference is that they dare not publicize it publicly. .

In the future, Chinese companies will gradually feel that domestic equipment is no worse than imported equipment. The main reason for imported equipment is no longer that their equipment is more advanced, but that this equipment is too unpopular and China does not bother to manufacture it. A tall nose is no longer a symbol of technical authority. Some companies have established overseas research institutes and hired engineers with tall noses to serve as migrant workers.

This is the difference in development stages. It will come naturally, and there is no need to be too anxious.

"Mr. Tang, your understanding of foreign teachers may be a little biased. Our school now hires foreign teachers not mainly to serve as oral teachers, but as professional teachers. By the way, Director Sun, isn't your department always Do you want to introduce some mechanical professors from Germany? Please introduce this situation to Mr. Tang and Mr. Zhang," said Fan Wenping.

"Okay." Sun Fanzhuo responded, then turned to Tang Zifeng and Zhang Jianyang and said: "Mr. Tang, Mr. Zhang, what I just said was a bit hasty and I didn't explain it clearly, which may have caused you to misunderstand. Our colleges and universities talk about international affairs. The reason for culturalization is not to hire a few foreign teachers to show off, but that some foreign professors are indeed very high-level, and their knowledge structure is very different from our domestic teachers.

"Introducing these professors will help promote academic exchanges and improve our teaching and scientific research levels. The concept of 'distant hybridization' is often mentioned in universities, which means that everyone in the same school or in the same country will have similar ways of thinking. . If we can introduce foreign scholars to teach or participate in scientific research, we can bring some fresh ways of thinking, which is the main purpose of internationalization."

What Sun Fanzhuo said was not nonsense. In fact, the internationalization indicators of universities are not unique to China, and even China learned them from abroad. The significance of internationalization to universities is to promote academic exchanges and break the long-term thinking stereotypes within a country.

This mindset is not limited to the field of social sciences, but also exists in the field of natural sciences. To give a simple example, New China's earliest industrialization came from 156 key projects aided by the Soviet Union. The result was that China's industrial technology system had a strong "Soviet-style" style, which was completely different from European and American technology.

The former Soviet Union fell behind in the technological competition with the West. As a result, the most advanced technologies in the world were basically European and American systems. Under this situation, China could only abandon the Soviet system and fully turn to the European and American systems. The price paid for this was extremely high. huge.

Domestic universities first proposed the concept of "distant hybridization", not for internationalization, but for inter-school exchanges.

In the early days, all schools were keen to retain outstanding students to teach and form a sect inheritance. In some departments, 70 to 80% of the teachers are from the same disciple of the same great master. They usually refer to each other as seniors and brothers, which makes teachers who graduated from other schools feel that they belong to a family with a minor surname and dare not say anything.

The advantage of this kind of inheritance is that Professor Daniel can make all the difference in the department. If there is any benefit, the seniors will get it, then the senior uncles will get it, and finally it will be the disciples' turn. Those disciples who were busy waiting on the master's bedside and taking the shit out of him when he was sick will eventually get the mantle passed down by the master. After a hundred years, they will transform and become the new master.

This phenomenon of inbreeding has led to the rapid degeneration of many originally vibrant scientific research units. The units are ranked based on seniority and dissidents are excluded. The teachers and teachers are playing tricks on each other and engaging in academic corruption together, making the academic circle a mess.

In view of this, many schools and scientific research institutes have issued regulations to restrict the retention of students from their own schools and actively introduce students who have graduated from other schools. This is the origin of the concept of distant hybridization.

When this concept is extended to the international level, it becomes the concept of internationalization. International exchanges between teachers, students, and exchanges between teachers and international students can all generate the vitality of ideas.

And ideological vitality is the core value of a school.

The most well-known university rankings in the world all use internationalization as an important indicator. This is not a boring move, but because the level of internationalization is indeed useful. Some outsiders read some revelations and follow the trend, saying that internationalization is a face-saving project. This is to treat the global education community as fools.

There is a saying: Don’t use your temporary interests to question the careers that others rely on for a living.

Tang Zifeng was not an educator, but he was rational enough to understand Sun Fanzhuo's explanation. In fact, Tang Zifeng originally understood what Sun Fanzhuo said. Canglong Research Institute also has introduced foreign engineers and a large number of returnees. The contribution of these people to the research institute is not only what products they can design, but also what they can provide. Those engineers with purely domestic education background provide inspiration, which can be regarded as a kind of distant hybridization.

"Director Sun, Principal Fan just said that you plan to introduce several mechanical professors from Germany. What are the specific situations? Are they willing to accept your recruitment?" Tang Zifeng asked Sun Fanzhuo.

"I am definitely willing," Sun Fanzhuo said, "But, I have no money!"

Speaking of this, Sun Fanzhuo showed a helpless expression on his face, and he still had one sentence left to say:

Damn it, just to get angry with Ming Polytechnic, no, to be precise, just to get angry with us, you dare to say that you will spend 6 million a year to send 10 students to study abroad.

If you give me these 6 million, how many more important things can I accomplish!

I hope readers of this book can be rational and not extreme. There is no absolute right or wrong in things in this world. Think about everything from the opposite point of view. There are not so many bad people in this world.