At this moment, in the office of the general manager of Linji Group, another topic is being discussed.

"Mr. Tang, regarding the establishment of the Canglong Mechanical College of Dongye University in Linhe, the school council has passed in principle, and the next step is to report to the Ministry of Education for approval. According to the spirit of the instructions of the Ministry of Education some time ago, this matter was approved, and it was basically a sure thing. ”

It was Fan Wenping, vice president of Dongye University, who spoke. He came to Linhe with the student practice team this time, and his main task was to meet with Tang Zifeng to discuss the cooperation between the two schools. The people in the house, in addition to Fan Wenping and Tang Zifeng, also included Shao Junjie, deputy mayor of Linhe City, Sun Fanzhuo, director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Dongye University, and Zhang Jianyang, deputy general manager of Linji Group.

The Ouyang Kang incident made Tang Zifeng realize a problem, there is a disconnect between scientific research in universities and the needs of the real production department. Ming Polytechnic undertakes the machine tool project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, considering how to produce scientific research results, and does not particularly care about the ideas of the practice department.

This is not uncommon. The results of some colleges and universities have passed the expert appraisal, but then there is no news. Because there is still a deep trench from the laboratory to the production line, if you can't cross it, such results are worthless.

This is true for research, and it is also true for teaching. Many colleges and universities in the mechanical profession talk about things, and production practice is contrary to the student, after graduation, can not adapt to the needs of the production line.

In addition, the mechanical major is an unpopular major in China nowadays, and students with good grades are reluctant to apply for this major. It is already very rare for a student like Yu Xiaohui to learn mechanical engineering well.

After seeing this situation, Tang Zifeng came up with the idea of cultivating talents by himself. He knows very well that the competition in the industry must fall on the talents in the final analysis, and which country has the first-class talents will be able to occupy the industrial highland.

said that he cultivated talents by himself, of course, Tang Zifeng could not run a university by himself to recruit students. Let's not talk about whether the Ministry of Education agrees or not, even if the Ministry of Education agrees to open a university on his own, how to recruit students, how to manage students, and how to organize teaching are not what he is good at, nor is anyone in the Linji Group good at.

There is a technical school under the Linji Group, which is formed by the merger of the original Linyi Technical School and Tengji Technical School, which mainly undertakes the function of staff training, which is equivalent to transforming the traditional way of taking apprentices in the factory into a modern education method. The students trained by the technical school can master the basic knowledge of industrial production, understand various production specifications, and be able to start working when they enter the workshop. However, if you want these students to design machine tools, there is no play, and they don't do this in the first place.

Tang Zifeng told Xiao Wenjun about this, and Xiao Wenjun told him that there is a very popular way nowadays, that is, enterprises and universities jointly run schools, some sponsor a certain college, and some establish another independent college to cultivate talents according to the needs of enterprises.

This method is beneficial for both the company and the school. From the perspective of the company, being able to obtain the talents that are cultivated according to their own requirements is equivalent to vocational training for future employees in school. In the case of schools, it is to increase income generation opportunities and expand their own scale.

You must know that when the school evaluates, the students of these independent colleges can also be counted as heads. The more heads, the higher the school's score, and the subsequent benefits will follow.

Tang Zifeng had heard of this model of independent college in later generations, but he didn't expect that he would be able to actually operate it. He immediately asked Xiao Wenjun to bring a message to the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University, asking if the other party was interested in cooperating with him to set up an independent college, and said that money was not a problem.

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Xiao Wenjun with a look of disgust. Xiao Wenjun told him that this kind of thing of co-establishing an independent college with a company is something that top universities like Qingbei disdain to do. Well, in fact, people just think that the scale of Linji Group is not big enough, the brand is not loud enough, if it is replaced by companies such as GE and Siemens to make such an offer, it will be another matter.

People don't have a "foreign" smell because of GE and Siemens!

Knowing that he couldn't climb to Qingbei, Tang Zifeng set his sights on local colleges and universities, and the first one was of course Dongye University, the highest university in Dongye Province.

Dongye Province originally had Dongye University and Dongye Institute of Technology, which was later renamed as University of Technology, and then merged into Dongye University, which is also a regular operation in many provinces and regions. Various international and domestic university rankings basically look at the total data, such as how many papers are published in a year, and how many project funds are received in a year. When the two universities are combined, these results can be counted together, which can improve the university rankings.

The unit that Tang Zifeng wants to cooperate with is the former Department of Mechanical Engineering of Dongye University of Technology, and now it is the Department of Mechanical and Automation of Dongye University. Many engineers of Linyi Machine are graduates of this department, and their strength is still relatively recognized.

Tang Zifeng personally came to the door and talked with Sun Fanzhuo, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Dongda University. Sun Fanzhuo was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately led Tang Zifeng to meet Fan Wenping, the vice principal in charge of teaching. Fan Wenping was also very interested in Tang Zifeng's proposal, and the two hit it off, and soon began a feasibility study, specific to the school's venue, funding sources, enrollment and employment, and other links.

The saying that professional things are left to professional people to do is true at all times. Tang Zifeng felt that the messy matters of running a school seemed very simple in front of the professionals of Dongye University.

Didn't you claim to be able to provide the venue? Didn't your group have ample experimental conditions and internship opportunities? Didn't you say that you could share part of the expenses?

Then enroll.

Set up the enrollment flag, why don't you want to go to school?

As for what to do with the students being recruited, throw them into the dormitory, post a class schedule, and tell them when and where to go to class, and that's it? As for the teachers, counselors, teaching affairs, dormitory managers, and so on, we have them all ready-made.

Compared with teaching, the school is more concerned about the employment of students. As a result of the extensive expansion of enrollment in colleges and universities across the country, the employment of college students has increasingly become a big problem, and if this problem is not solved, Dongye University will not dare to recruit students casually.

20 years ago, college students were absolutely sweet and sweet in society, and if one or two college students could be assigned to a unit, it was simply a treasure. In many major military equipment research histories revealed by later generations, there are good stories about someone who was entrusted with an important task just after graduating from university. This is not because of how bold the leaders were back then, but because there was too little talent at that time.

Let's look at a set of data: in 1984, there were 475,000 students enrolled in ordinary colleges and universities nationwide, and in 2004, 4.473 million students enrolled in ordinary colleges and universities nationwide, an increase of 10 times in 20 years. Coupled with the accumulation of graduates over the years, who would still take a college student seriously? Which unit does not pick and choose among thousands of resumes when it comes to recruiting?

Unemployment after graduation is really not just a joke in this day and age.

On the one hand, it is difficult for college students to find employment, and on the other hand, colleges and universities still have the urge to expand their enrollment, and the Ministry of Education's approach is also very fair, that is, to look at the employment rate of your graduates. If you can solve the employment problem, you will recruit. If you can't solve the employment problem, you don't have to talk about it.

Within the school, this policy was pushed to the various departments. If the employment situation of students in your department is good, you will be given an additional enrollment quota. Your employment situation is poor, I'm sorry, next year you will have to deduct a few places and transfer them to those departments with good employment.

The number of students represents the status of a department in the school, as well as the treatment of teachers. If the number of students is low, you will not be able to hold so many classes, and some teachers will not have enough workload. If the workload is insufficient, the bonus will be deducted, which will affect the promotion of the title, which is simply the life of the teachers.

As a result, the leaders of each department racked their brains to change the name of the major to a better sound, remove those courses that were not helpful in finding a job, and bring in the most popular concepts in society at the moment, even if it could not be turned into a course for a while, at least a few lectures.

By the way, some parents go to the high recruitment consultation to inquire about which major is better to assign, which is actually a redundant move. The majors offered by the school are all easy to assign, and the majors that are not well assigned have long been strangled to death by the principals.

Well, in fact, there are still some parents who are worried that the students of the Qingbei teachers are not easy to distribute, is this because they are worried that the emperor's golden flat burden is easy to rust?

Linji Group wants to build an independent college with Dongye University, and the school is most concerned about employment. The employment of independent colleges should also be counted in the school's employment rate, so don't drag the school back.

The most troublesome problem for schools is the easiest for enterprises, and this is the meaning of cooperation.

Tang Zifeng told Fan Wenping and Sun Fanzhuo that the students who graduated from the independent college were in charge of the Linji Group. In other words, if these students cannot find a job after graduation, Linji Group will accept them in full. Of course, the premise is that the student's performance in school is qualified, at least Math 4 can't be failed, right?

With Tang Zifeng's promise, Dongye University still had any hesitation, so it immediately organized a capable team, began to write a plan, prepare a training plan, and first reported to the Provincial Department of Education, and then to the Ministry of Education, and now wait for the approval of the Ministry of Education.

As Fan Wenping said to Tang Zifeng, due to the appeal of Xu Zhaojian and other seniors some time ago, the Ministry of Education has an encouraging attitude towards this kind of profession oriented to the industrial and agricultural practice department, and in the plan submitted by the University of Tokyo, it is emphasized that the employment of graduates will be covered by all enterprises, and there is basically no suspense for the Ministry of Education to approve the establishment of this independent college.

"The question now is, Mr. Tang thinks, where is the appropriate enrollment score line for our college?"

Fan Wenping asked Tang Zifeng.