6 million is not much......

Fan Wenping and Sun Fanzhuo were speechless.

It's still the business that has money. The annual funds in the school are also hundreds of millions, but most of them are capitation fees, which are used to pay teachers' salaries, and after deducting a little infrastructure, experimental funds, book procurement, etc., the surplus money is really not much.

Linji Group dared to make a bold statement, saying that it would take out 6 million yuan a year to fund 10 students to study abroad, but Dongda did not have this confidence. Slow to say, can the school squeeze out this money, even if there is this money, isn't it fragrant to use it to fund teachers to visit abroad?

Don't get me wrong, this is not to say that school teachers have to compete with students for resources, but to sponsor a teacher to go abroad as a visiting scholar and come back to spread the concept of internationalization to hundreds of students. And if it is used to fund a student to study abroad, it is very likely that the student will never return. If you were the principal, how would you choose?

Huh, international?

As soon as Fan Wenping thought of this, a thought suddenly flashed through 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 considered hiring some foreign teachers?"

"Foreign teacher?" Tang Zifeng was stunned.

Foreign teachers are creatures, Tang Zifeng also saw them when he was in college, there are three or five in the whole school, and the return rate is extremely high when he walks on campus. Foreign teachers are generally responsible for foreign language speaking classes, and there are no hard teaching indicators, so they just sit there and talk to everyone during class. Tang Zifeng felt that it would be more appropriate to go to Texas to find a few red-necked farmers to do this work, and even taught American slang together.

More than ten years ago, this kind of foreign teaching was still very useful for college students, firstly, it allowed students to be exposed to real foreign dialogue scenes, which was more down-to-earth than listening to English tapes with a complete subject-verb-object background. The second is to allow students to eliminate some of the strangeness or awe of "foreign countries", at least to know that foreigners' knees can also be bent, and when they study abroad in the future, they will not be afraid to associate with foreigners.

But in recent years, there have been more and more exchanges between China and foreign countries, and there are many people who have gone abroad, and it is even more common to encounter "foreigners" in daily life. There are foreigners in the Linji Group all year round, some of them are here for business exchanges, and some are here for after-sales service.

In Linyiji, a few foreigners stayed in the factory for several months, and also learned to go to the East District vegetable market to eat barbecue. Some young people in the factory rubbed around these foreigners, chatting with others in half-baked English, which was called cultivating a sense of language.

With such an environment, what kind of foreign teachers do independent colleges need to hire, and why don't you just take students to eat skewers a few times every once in a while?

Thinking of this, Tang Zifeng shook his head and said, "This is exempt, oral language or something, if you have the opportunity to contact foreigners in the future, you will naturally be able to practice." Specially invited a few foreign teachers to teach oral Chinese in the school, which is a bit redundant. ”

"How can it be an extra move?" Sun Fan Zhuo was anxious, "Mr. Tang, foreign teachers are very useful for improving the grade of the school. Didn't you just ask Ming Polytechnic what is better than our Dongye University? Every time people evaluate colleges and universities, their scores in the item of internationalization are much higher than ours. You haven't read the admissions promotional materials of Ming Polytechnic University, which are full of high-nosed foreign teachers, and how many candidates are going for this. ”

"But, what does it matter to us to score internationally?" Tang Zifeng choked angrily.

Zhang Jianyang explained for him: "Director Sun, you may not know that the state has just issued a notice to us, large and extra-large enterprises, asking us not to blindly pursue Westernization, and especially emphasizing that we should not flaunt how much imported equipment we have in corporate propaganda.

"Now we are co-establishing an independent college with Dongda University, and the name is Canglong College of Dongye University. If we give too much prominence to the high nose you just mentioned in the college's admissions publicity, we may even be criticized by our superiors. ”

"Director Sun's statement just now is a little ambiguous. Fan Wenping hurriedly retreated.

People in different fields really think about problems from very different perspectives. The concept of internationalization is common knowledge in college circles, and the presidents of various colleges and universities get together to hold a meeting and talk about the topic of internationalization, and no one will raise any questions, everyone only hates that they have no money, can't afford to hire foreign teachers, and can't send students out for exchange.

But when it comes to the enterprise, internationalization has become a thing that everyone hates, and a few more high noses will be criticized, what is this!

What Fan Wenping didn't know was that in fact, the criticism of the high nose was also something just now. Previously, what company didn't pride itself on having imported equipment or having a few high-nosed engineers?

Even now, companies still like imported equipment, and still think that the height of the nose has a positive correlation with the level of the engineer, and having several engineers with a high nose still makes people feel faithful, the only difference is that they dare not publicize it publicly.

In the future, Chinese companies will slowly feel that domestic equipment is not worse than imported equipment, and the main reason for imported equipment is no longer that people's equipment is more advanced, but just that this equipment is too unpopular and disdainful of manufacturing in China. The high nose is no longer a symbol of technical authority, and some companies have set up research institutes overseas and hired a group of high-nosed engineers, also for migrant workers.

This is the difference in the stage of development, it comes naturally, and there is no need to be too anxious.

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

"Okay. Sun Fanzhuo responded, then turned his head to Tang Zifeng and Zhang Jianyang and said: "Mr. Tang, Mr. Zhang, what I said just now was a little anxious, and I didn't explain it clearly, which may have made you misunderstand." When we talk about internationalization in our universities, it is not to hire a few foreign teachers to put on a façade, but the level of some foreign professors is indeed very high, and their knowledge structure is very different from that of our domestic teachers.

"The introduction of these professors will help promote academic exchanges and improve our teaching and research standards. The concept of 'distant hybridization' is often said in colleges and universities, which means that in the same school, or in the same country, everyone's way of thinking will be relatively similar. If foreign scholars can be introduced to teach or participate in scientific research, it can bring some fresh ways of thinking, which is the main purpose of internationalization. ”

Sun Fanzhuo's words are not nonsense. In fact, the internationalization indicators of universities are not unique to China, and even China has learned them from abroad. The significance of internationalization for universities is to promote academic exchanges and break the long-established mindset within a country.

This mindset is not confined to the social sciences, but also to the natural sciences. To take a simple example, the earliest industrialization of New China came from 156 key projects aided by the Soviet Union, and the result was that China's industrial technology system had a strong "Soviet-style" style, which was completely different from the technology of Europe and the United States.

The former Soviet Union fell behind in the technological competition with the West, resulting in the world's most advanced technology is basically the European and American system, in this case, China can only abandon the Soviet system and fully turn to the European and American system, for which the price to pay is extremely huge.

The concept of "distant hybridization" was first proposed by domestic universities, not for internationalization, but for inter-university exchanges.

In the early days, schools were keen to keep their best students to teach, forming a sectarian lineage. Seventy or eighty percent of the teachers in some departments are from the same big bull's disciples, and everyone is usually commensurate with each other, so that teachers who graduated from other schools feel that they are from a small family and dare not squeak.

The advantage of this kind of teacher inheritance is that Professor Da Niu can call for wind and rain in the department, but if there is a little benefit, the ancestor will take it, the uncle will take it, and finally it will be the turn of the disciples. Those disciples who were busy waiting in front of the bed when the master was sick, serving feces and urinating, could eventually get the mantle passed down by the master, and after a hundred years of the master, they would be transformed into new masters.

This phenomenon of inbreeding has caused many originally vigorous scientific research units to rapidly degenerate, ranking seniority within the units, excluding dissidents, and praising each other's stinky feet among teachers and disciples, and jointly engaging in academic corruption, thus turning the academic circle into a miasma.

In view of this, many schools and research institutes have issued regulations to restrict their own students from staying in the school and actively introduce students who graduated from other schools, which is the source of the concept of distant hybridization.

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

Ideological vitality is the core value of a school.

The most well-known international rankings of universities all regard internationalization as an important indicator, not because of the fact that the level of internationalization is indeed useful. Some outsiders follow the trend after seeing a little bit of revealing secrets and the like, saying that internationalization is a face-saving project, which is to treat people in the global education community as fools.

There's a saying: don't use your momentary interest to question what other people do for a living.

Tang Zifeng is not engaged in education, but he is rational enough to enable him to understand Sun Fanzhuo's explanation. In fact, Sun Fanzhuo's reasoning, Tang Zifeng originally understood, the Canglong Research Institute also has introduced foreign engineers, as well as a large number of returnees, these people's contribution to the research institute is not only what products they can design, but also to be able to provide inspiration for those engineers with a purely domestic education background, which can be regarded as a kind of distant hybridization.

"Director Sun, President Fan just said that you plan to introduce a few professors of mechanical engineering from Germany, what is the specific situation?

"Yes, yes, yes. Sun Fanzhuo said, "But, there is no money!"

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

Nima, you are just angry with Ming Polytechnic, no, to be precise, you dare to say that you will pay 6 million a year to send 10 students to study abroad.

If this 6 million is given to me, how many things can I do that is much more important than this!