Chapter 201: University Rankings Plummet, Education Reform Begins
Since the end of March, the temporary campus of Centron University has been busy.
Under the auspices of the experienced Rector Raphael, the preparations were carried out in an orderly manner.
Once again, Eye in the Sky has unleashed its extraordinary ability, a super database that holds the privacy of most people in the world, to find the most suitable candidates from countless universities around the world.
All the people who can enter the management of Xingchen University have an important characteristic, that is, they will not be prejudiced and hostile to Huaxia.
This is very important, although Luo Jia found an international elite intellectual like Raphael to be the president, but in fact, Luo Jia is very chicken, Xingchen University must serve Huaxia, Raphael, the great god, is placed on the table for outsiders to see.
Therefore, the staff of Xingchen University must be loyal to this land, even if you are not so loyal, but you must not eat inside and out.
And their second characteristic is that they are well-connected.
As a university, network is very important, Luo Jia hopes that students can explore and learn all over the world, so that it is inevitable to cooperate with many universities or research institutions around the world, and it will be difficult to achieve this goal without enough contacts.
And their third characteristic is that they are experienced.
From registration, to dormitory allocation, to course arrangement, to the organization of activities on and off campus, students all need rich educational experience to be competent, and a perfect university, in addition to a strong education team, a strong logistics support team is also essential.
Luo Jia goes for a walk at Xingchen University almost every day, and witnesses the changes of this university, which has infinite expectations, day by day.
At the door of the teaching building, Luo Jia met Qi Mengzhou, who now has a new position, assistant to the president, to assist President Raphael in regularizing and professionalizing Xingchen University as soon as possible.
Qi Mengzhou wore a black professional suit, held a tablet in his arms, checked the list in the computer, and the library purchased a large number of books, not only in Chinese, but also in English.
Qi Mengzhou was using the phone to negotiate with the British book supplier, and the books they had airlifted before were missing a few hundred copies, and she was furious about this and blamed the supplier fiercely.
"These Brits, the efficiency of work is simply terrible, if in our country, such inefficient businesses would have been eliminated long ago." Qi Mengzhou muttered.
Luo Jia smiled, didn't say anything, and the two of them walked into the teaching building.
After redecoration, the original shopping mall has become a school, and the huge central atrium has been retained, but the place where it should have been a musical fountain has been made into a twelve-meter-high giant transformer by Luo Jia.
"After all, this was originally a shopping mall, in addition to the main building, there are three annexes connected to each other, if you don't use an electric balance car, running around in such a large space is just tiring." Qi Mengzhou stepped onto an electric balance car and waved his hand at Luo Jia in a dashing manner.
Luo Jiamu saw Qi Mengzhou leave and took the elevator to Principal Raphael's office, where several employees were holding documents and waiting for him to sign.
Principal Raphael carefully reviewed the form and confirmed that it was correct, before signing his name on it.
There were people coming and going in the office constantly, holding all sorts of papers.
Luo Jia actually came here for no special reason, he saw that Raphael was very busy, so he got up to say hello to him, turned to leave, and walked back to the company, while walking, he lowered his head and thought.
An interesting thing happened recently, the new ranking of the world's top 100 universities was released, and what was surprising was that Tsinghua University and Peking University, the two Chinese universities on the list, plummeted in the rankings, from the middle and upper reaches to the bottom of the list.
At the same time, 51 universities in North America made the list, accounting for half of the top 100 universities in the world.
It's really tragic enough, the number of universities on the list in China is pitiful, and now it has been completely crushed by North America.
This incident has set off a lot of turmoil in the Chinese education circles, and it is like a slap in the face, and it has dealt a very heavy blow to colleagues in the education circles.
But Luo Jia feels that it is not a bad thing, because of the academic fraud of Xingchen Technology, a major purge has been carried out, countless experts and professors have been dismissed, and younger, more energetic teachers and professors have replaced those black sheep in the past and stepped onto a broad stage.
They are holding back their energy and want to do a big job and show their talents.
At such a time, the suppression of European and American academic hegemony will not discourage them, but will only make them want to fight even more.
The Chinese education sector is so miserable that it has reached the point where it can no longer lose, a big country, with a population of 1.3 billion, but no world-class university of its own, it is really embarrassing to say it, and we still claim to be the most education-advocating nation on the earth.
Returning to the company unconsciously, Luo Jia planned to go back to the office and continue to work on the torturous multi-link system, but he suddenly felt a little hungry, so he went straight to the cafeteria.
Li Moran was eating in the corner while swiping his finger on the phone screen, and when he saw Luo Jia, he waved his hand from afar.
Luo Jia nodded, took some food at the window, and sat down beside him, just about to ask about the recent situation of the software department, but Li Moran was a little excited, and said to Luo Jia, "The education department is going to move seriously." ”
After that, he gave his mobile phone to Luo Jia and asked him to watch a piece of news.
The content of this news is simply that the university is going to be reformed.
The specific steps of the reform are very complex, which can be roughly summarized as follows.
1. Abolish the previous system of determining positions based on the number of papers.
2. Abolish the administrative level of the management and make the university more professional and pure.
3. Reform the student union system to prevent the bureaucratization of student organizations.
4. Reform the system of disbursement of scientific research funds to avoid excessive leadership power...
Luo Jia saw things quickly, he glanced at them a few times, read the whole article, and then said to Li Moran with a smile, "It's a little interesting, it seems that the successive knocks on the sticks have already made the education department red-eyed, and behind these reform measures, there are obviously masters in charge." ”
"Actually, I have heard the rumors from Professor Ouyang, first we engaged in an academic crackdown, and the universities we beat were disgraced and thrown to my grandmother's house, and then the academic hegemony of Europe and the United States stabbed them again, greatly reducing the global rankings of Tsinghua University and Peking University."
"You know, in this part of my country, Tsinghua University and Peking University are faces, and now their faces are swollen, if you are the leader of the Ministry of Education, you will also go crazy."
"But I'm very happy, this time Europe and the United States waved the academic stick, in fact, it also did us a favor, people are inert, not forced to do their part, it is difficult to see such a resolute and strong reform of universities."
"In the final analysis, the iron has to be hard, and Europe and the United States dare to greatly reduce the ranking of Tsinghua University and Peking University, in fact, there is only one reason, that is, their foundation is not hard enough."
Luo Jia is the crux of the matter, people who are really strong enough are no one who dares to bully, instead of complaining, it is better to practice internal skills.
Li Moran thought for a while, "Then do you think this university reform can be successful?" ”
Luo Jia ate two bites of fried shredded pork with green peppers and wiped her mouth with a napkin, "There should be some hope, the root of the bureaucratization of the university lies in the fact that resources and funds are controlled by the leadership, and teachers who want to do something need resources and funds, and they must report to the leaders." ”
"In many important academic conferences, the leader will let whoever he wants to go, in this way, he will definitely take care of those who pat themselves on the back, or look more pleasing to the eye, so that it becomes a vicious circle, and the villain who will pat the leader's ass will become more and more powerful in the university."
"The student union is the same, counselors, secretaries, they have the right to support your activities, and they also have the right to deny your activities, if you don't come, why should people support you?"
"Therefore, the key to the failure of universities is bureaucratization, and the reason for bureaucratization is that there is too much power."
"I think these reform plans are very good, they are all aimed at the bureaucratization of universities, of course, the specific implementation is another matter, we just need to do our own thing, and we don't have to worry about the rest."
"As the enrollment work in China comes to an end, starting this month, our larger-scale global enrollment will also be officially opened, as long as the world's geniuses can be firmly controlled in our hands, this so-called university rankings, let them play their own eggs."
"Europe and the United States want beautiful rankings, no problem, just give them that!"
"We don't want the present, we want everything in the future!"