"More than a thousand exchange student places?!"

As soon as William's announcement about the exchange students was announced, the people in the audience were immediately excited.

Just over half a year ago, the National People's Congress has sent a group of exchange students to the United States, and this batch of exchange students has made countless people envious, because they are going to Harvard University, the world's top university.

Before this, the exchange business of the National People's Congress could only be carried out in opposition to the second-rate universities in the United States, not to mention the top universities like Harvard, even if it was a quasi-first-class university, they may not be able to look down on the National People's Congress, and they engaged in exchange students with Huaxia University, which were generally Tsinghua University, Yan University, and Fudan University.

Because of this, the last batch of Harvard exchange students have become lucky stars, not only envied by college students, but also by students from every university in the country.

The most enviable thing is that students like Su Yingxue will even be dug into a corner by Harvard, which in the eyes of other students, is simply like flying on a branch and becoming a phoenix, and ascending to the sky in one step.

With Su Yingxue as an example, the students' desire for exchange student qualifications far exceeds that of other colleges.

Originally, the top students of various majors of the National People's University were still looking forward to the second time that Harvard could reach an exchange student cooperation with the National People's Congress, so that they could also have the opportunity to go to Harvard University in the United States for exchange studies.

However, they were very disappointed because they didn't know why, and there was no follow-up since the first end of Harvard's exchange student cooperation with the National People's Congress.

Many students who are interested in exchange students take the initiative to ask teachers, professors and even school leaders to ask, and the results are the same: "For the time being, we have not received any exchange business from Harvard, and the National People's Congress has also taken the initiative to apply to Harvard for a second round of exchange student cooperation, but Harvard has not given any response." ”

In fact, Harvard would really be a ghost if it could give people a big response.

If it weren't for Xie Huairu's argument for "showing favor to Li Mu" as a reason to advocate exchange student cooperation between Harvard and the National People's Congress, and giving Harvard another ten years, they might not have reached actual cooperation with the National People's Congress.

And the wave of exchange students, including Su Yingxue, the actual situation is: after arriving in the United States, almost no one can impress Harvard, and these big sons of genius quickly drowned among thousands of top students at Harvard after arriving at Harvard, and not even one of them can come out.

Including Su Yingxue herself, although she showed a certain talent at Harvard at that time, she was better than the college students who went with her at the same time, but compared with those high-achieving students at Harvard, it can be said that she has no advantage at all.

It is precisely because of this that Su Yingxue will be particularly tempted after getting the ffer retained by Harvard, because in her opinion, it is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, coupled with her admiration and desire for Harvard in her bones, she is destined to be unable to refuse at all.

Therefore, after Xie Huairu achieved his goal and kept Su Yingxue at Harvard, he was no longer willing to promote the exchange program between Harvard and the National People's Congress, so the National People's Congress was never able to obtain even one formal negotiation with Harvard.

The top management of the National People's Congress reflected on this matter for a period of time, and everyone sat together in a meeting at that time, reflecting on whether the overall performance of the students sent out this time was too poor?

But then again, isn't the Harvard side extremely satisfied with Su Yingxue? Not only does they want to keep her at Harvard, but they also promise to send her to a business school and a full scholarship in the future? It is said that this is the first time that such a thing has happened among exchange students.

The National People's Congress couldn't understand why they were so cold when they provided them with a student who was so satisfied with them?

Later, a female leader remembered something and said, "Su Yingxue, it seems to be Li Mu's girlfriend, right?"

The leaders of the National People's Congress suddenly realized, and the principal slapped the table: "No wonder, then this explanation makes sense, come on, don't continue to communicate with Harvard in the future, it's purely self-deprecating." ”

I thought that working with exchange students from the world's top universities would be a flash in the pan, but now, William has brought new expectations to the teachers and students of the University.

The principal of the National People's Congress, who was sitting next to Li Mu, was already excited after hearing this.

Even Li Mu himself was slightly surprised.

The top 10 institutions of higher learning in the UK have added more than 1,000 exchange places to China at once, which is indeed a very large exchange student opening for Chinese college students.

Under normal circumstances, the top ten institutions of higher learning have only a few dozen exchange students with a country a year, and at most a hundred people, and they are also in the United States, which is surrounded by top universities.

Generally speaking, the number of exchange students between two schools is generally limited to 10 students, and only between top universities and universities of the same level will the number of exchange students be slightly larger.

If it is Cambridge and Harvard, more exchange students are also in line with the actual situation of both sides, on the one hand, Europe and the United States are originally a family, and on the other hand, these two schools are equal, the replacement of resources is relatively fair, and it is easier to achieve a win-win situation.

However, there is still a certain gap between the overall level of higher education institutions in China and the UK, and under this premise, it is even more rare for the top 10 universities in the UK to come up with so many exchange student places.

Li Mu didn't expect that the Windsor family would help get so many exchange student places, so that more than 1,000 high-achieving students from Huaxia could go to the UK every year to see the Western world.

This opportunity may not bring much improvement to the academic ability of more than 1,000 people, but as long as they have the opportunity to go out, it will be of great help to broaden the horizons of domestic students and improve the pattern of students.

However, William only said about the more than 1,000 places in his speech, but did not say how the more than 1,000 places were distributed.

It is definitely impossible to give all to the people's congress, and even if the people's congress wants to, it can't be digested at all, because the people's congress only enrolls a few thousand people every year, and if more than 1,000 are sent out every year, this proportion is a bit outrageous.

Just when Li Mu himself was a little confused, William said: "The more than 1,000 exchange places have been completely determined, and there will be no accidents, but how to distribute the more than 1,000 places in China, I think it is better for Mr. Li Mu, who knows the domestic situation better, to decide, and these ten British colleges that provide exchange places also have a high degree of recognition for Mr. Li Mu, so they are willing to fully accept Mr. Li Mu's arrangement on the allocation of places." ”

William gave Li Mu the control of more than 1,000 places.

The principal sitting next to Li Mu immediately asked him in a low voice: "Li Mu, what are you going to do with the more than 1,000 exchange student places?"

Li Mu secretly thought in his heart, first of all, the more than 1,000 places must be divided, as for how to divide them, under normal circumstances, since it is the quota provided by the top 0 universities in the UK, then it should be digested by the top ten schools in China according to their respective strengths, but in this way, the National People's Congress will have no advantage.

The National People's Congress is Li Mu's home field, and in Li Mu's view, it is natural that it should enjoy a certain amount of resources, so Li Mu said to the principal: "In this way, after this meeting, I will ask William to sort out a specific list, including which school and how many exchange places are provided, and then I will hand this list to you, and you will determine which ones and how many people you want." ”

The principal smiled and nodded, and said, "Okay, that's great." ”

Li Mu reminded: "Principal, in terms of the number of specific indicators, the people's congress should not account for more than 20 at most, I think it can be directly based on 20, and among all the indicators given by these ten schools, the people's congress will take 20 and give the remaining 80 points to other schools." ”

The principal nodded, and said with a smile: "That's certain, we can't take up all the resources, we really have to give a part to the brother schools, I think the ratio of 20 is very good, and the rest will be divided among the other brother schools!"

Since entering the second century, Huaxia universities have become very eager for exchange resources from Western countries, and the whole of China is constantly opening up and connecting with the world.

What can really make education go out is basically the two basic models of academic cooperation and exchange student cooperation, but it is very difficult to carry out actual cooperation at the academic level, so the most practical thing is exchange students.

As a result, various universities have established "friendship schools" overseas, and actively signed exchange cooperation agreements with overseas schools, such as Tsinghua University, a large number of friendship schools have been established, but there are none of the top universities such as Harvard, Yale, IT, and Cambridge, for a simple reason: misalignment

At the beginning, Harvard cooperated with the National People's Congress and gave less than ten exchange student places, which made Yanda and Tsinghua University and several other institutions of higher learning jealous, because apart from the National People's Congress, no university in China has exchange student cooperation with Harvard, because the comprehensive strength of the schools is too different.

In fact, the same is true for universities like Cambridge, judging from the overall strength of Chinese universities at this stage, no university can establish exchange student cooperation with Cambridge through conventional channels, and no university can send a student to Cambridge for exchange purposes.

However, this time, Cambridge gave more than 100 exchange students in one go, which is simply a relief in disguise.

In fact, among the graduates of China's top universities, there are no lack of people who have been admitted to the world's top universities for graduate studies, but for the school, students are admitted overseas after graduation, and their students go to overseas schools to exchange and study, these are two completely different paths, the former has almost nothing to do with them, at most they are an alumnus.

However, if the National People's Congress can send more than 200 exchange students to the UK every year in the future, it will be of great help to the academic atmosphere of the whole school, the cultivation of competition among students, and the improvement of the overall level of students.