Churchill was always unaccustomed to the Boer War.

Especially after being captured on the front line.

As for what happened......

A young man, a journalist, brave and fearless, escaped alone,

Newspapers across the UK competed to cover the young man's saga.

Of course, after Churchill returned home, he began to spray again and again in Congress, and even exported wildly to the Conservative Party.

He said slowly: "These two Boer wars were the wars with the largest number of troops, the longest delay, the most cruel and the most expensive in the hundreds of years of British colonial history. In total, the treasury has spent at least £150 million. ”

At the beginning of the 20th century, £150 million was an extremely horrific figure.

Others don't know what to say.

There was silence in the carriage.

Lu Shi lifted the curtain,

He noticed that the carriage was heading in the direction of Westminster, and asked curiously, "Is there anything else you want me to do?" ”

Waldhouse nodded,

"This."

He pulled out a piece of paper from the inside pocket of his coat.

Lu Shi took it,

That's a table, the preliminary results of the global university rankings,

Cambridge and Oxford, of course, are at the top, ranking first and second;

Further up, the University of Paris is in third place and the University of Munich is in fourth place;

And then there was the rule of the British,

University College London,

University of Edinburgh,

King's College,

……

The only good news is that London has not made it into the top 50, and the word "fairness" has not been completely trampled into the dirt.

Lu Shi: "......"

How does it feel like the rankings are specifically for the UK.

Is this result authoritative?

He looked at Wardhouse,

The latter laughed,

"Lu, I have to admire you. The world university rankings that you have come up with can indeed bring unparalleled fame to the United Kingdom, and then attract talents from all over the world. His Majesty looked at it and was very pleased with the result. ”

Lu Shi was speechless,

"This ......"

Wardhouse saw him hesitate and said, "I know what you're thinking. But the truth is that your disciple Solomon sent a questionnaire to the international students, and they generally agreed with the results. ”

Needless to say?

The UK is currently one of the world's centres of higher education.

The other center is France.

And the strange thing is that there is "only" one university in France -

University of Paris.

This may seem like a joke, but it is.

The University of Paris is one of the oldest universities in Europe, founded in 1200 and split into thirteen in 1968 due to the French student revolution.

Sorbonne University, University of Paris-Cité, Paris Sciences et des Arts et Lettress ......

It's all world-class.

This is the equivalent of multiple top universities occupying a pit.

Lu Shi smiled bitterly,

"Columbia University and Harvard looked at this ranking, and they were afraid that they would come to me to settle accounts."

Waldhouse also fell into deep thought,

The purpose of the global university rankings is to improve the cultural soft power of the United Kingdom, and if you only eat meat for yourself and don't even give soup to others, people will definitely not want to.

Throughout history, are there still fewer martial arts alliance leaders who have been overturned by the younger brothers?

Wardhouse said, "What then? ”

Churchill on the side smiled: "Do you still need to ask?" Of course, it is to ensure that the British university rankings are relatively pre-exam, so that other countries also have the opportunity to enter the game~"

That being said,

But how should His Majesty the King explain?

Edward VII is still dreaming of "all the heroes of the world are in my place"~

"Hiss......"

Wardhouse had a terrible headache.

At this time, the coachman's voice sounded: "Gentlemen, it has arrived. ”

Wardhouse was the first to go down and arrange for the coachman to go to London to summon Nicati Nikolić and Tierry Solomon.

The four of them entered the Palace of Westminster together.

Lu Shi and Natsume Soseki visited for the first time, and they were inevitably a little curious, observing left and right,

The interior of the Palace of Westminster is full of history, with the towering dome inlaid with gold decorations, solemn and ornate.

Churchill smiled and asked, "First time?" ”

Lu Shi nodded,

"Yes."

Churchill pointed to the hall in front and said, "Inside is St. Edward's Throne." Edward...... Hum...... What a coincidence. ”

Lu Shi listened to the black lines on his head,

￣□￣｜｜

What is the coincidence of this?

There are many Edwards in the royal family, and this is the seventh generation.

A few people passed by the House of Lords,

Lu Shi looked curiously and found that the tables and chairs inside were very classical, and there were murals painted on the walls, depicting important events and people in British history.

Winston Churchill said: "If you like art, you might as well go to the 'gallery'. ”

There is indeed a room on the south side of the palace that does not have an official name,

It is called a "gallery" because of the presence of artworks such as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper and Michelangelo's Madonna.

Lu Shi thought of his treasures,

"By the way, Mr. Churchill, is Britain allowed to open a private museum?"

"Ah......h

Churchill was really asked.

He looked at Wardhouse,

Wardhouse spreads his hands,

"I don't remember any regulations. Of course, no one does that in the UK, but there are many in Spain, Italy, and France. Especially after last year's Expo, the ...... in Paris Not...... Speaking of which, are wax figures considered exhibits? ”

Churchill groaned,

Whether Madame Tussauds counts as a museum or not is indeed a question.

They chatted and went to the Wardhouse office.

It seems to have just been renovated,

A brand new Persian carpet covered the floor,

The texture of the carpet is delicate, and stepping on it is like walking on a cloud.

At the edge of the carpet, a huge fish tank stood, only instead of fish, it was a few turtles.

My generation: "Meow~"

Jumped jubilantly to the side of the fish tank.

But the fish tank was so high that the little one could not see it, so he found a chair from the side and arched it with his big head.

The chair is made of wood, where can it be arched?

The legs of the chair wrinkled against the floor.

Churchill laughed,

"This cat is a god! No wonder he can be the protagonist of "I Am a Cat". ”

He went over and helped me move the chairs.

I immediately jumped on it and looked curiously at the turtle in the fish tank.

Lu Shi was curious,

"Sir, how do you raise this?"

Waldhouse smiled: "I have been studying your Chinese history and culture recently, and when I read the book, I found that the emperor of China had an imperial garden, and he would raise fish in the pond in the garden. So, I asked someone to get a few from China. ”

Lu Shi: "......"

"Where's the fish?"

Wardhouse sighed helplessly,

"At sea he died. So, I switched to raising turtles. ”

There are too many slots,

Lu Shi didn't know what to say about this magical brain circuit.

Then

"Meow !!!"

Suddenly, there was the sound of our generation frying.

Following the prestige, I saw the little guy lying on the fish tank, his hind legs cramping like crazy pulling.

The next second,

Plop –

I fell into the fish tank.

It was so frightened that it was "meow~" everywhere, but when it found that there seemed to be no danger, it returned to its true nature and held down the turtle's shell like a cat king.

The turtle moved its legs a few times, and then shrunk its shell.

The crowd was silent.

It was a long time before Churchill said, "It's free." ”

The other three laughed maniacally.

They chatted about the content of "I Am a Cat" again, and waited for more than an hour before the voice of the clerk came outside,

"Sir, there are two students outside, say ......"

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Wardhouse: "Let them in." ”

Soon, Nikolic and Solomon entered the room.

The two young men obviously did not expect to enter the core of the empire, the Palace of Westminster, and they both seemed a little cautious and trembling.

Lu Shi beckoned,

"Sit down. Do you want us to move chairs? ”

Hearing this, Solomon hurriedly pulled Nikolic to sit down.

Waldhouse said, "I have someone to bring you a message, do you know what you are here for?" ”

Solomon took a piece of paper out of his pocket,

"Teacher, please take a look."

As he spoke, he handed it to Lu Shi.

That's a table of grading criteria for university rankings.

Academic reputation: 40%;

Employer reputation: 10%;

Faculty paper citations: 30%;

Student-faculty ratio: 10%;

Percentage of international teachers: 5%;

Percentage of international students: 5%.

There are six items in total.

This was proposed when Lu Shi was in the United States.

After returning home, Wardhouse handed it over to the London Economics' polling project, asking them to send telegrams to the universities for statistics, and then weighted them out of 10.

Solomon lowered his voice,

"Teacher, we didn't cheat. In the end, that's the result. ”

Lu Shi asked, "First of all, academic reputation, how do you do it?" ”

Solomon looked at Nikolic,

The latter said: "Teacher, we have compiled the expert opinions of more than 10,000 people in the field of higher education in the world on the quality of teaching and research in universities around the world, no problem. ”

Lu Shi asked, "What about the United States?" ”

Nikolić replied: "We asked for 1,377 people, which is a lot of people. ”

With the current status of the American education depression, the number 1377 is indeed very good.

Lu Shi couldn't help muttering,

"Then why is there no MIT?"

In modern times, MIT has dominated the charts year after year.

As a result, Solomon was confused: "What...... What Polytechnic? Is there a polytechnic in Massachusetts in the United States? The University of Massachusetts? ”

I've never even heard of it.

Nikolic, who was next to him, showed an expression of "children cannot be taught" and said: "The University of Massachusetts and MIT are not the same school. MIT is right next to Cambridge and Harvard, but it was founded very late, it seems to have been in 1861. ”

Hearing this era, Lu Shi remembered the development trajectory of MIT,

The school's early emphasis on applied science and engineering emerged after the outbreak of World War II to rely on the research and development needs of U.S. defense technology.

The current MIT really doesn't exist.

Harvard has even repeatedly asked MIT to be merged into the Lawrence Academy of Sciences.

Thinking about this, Lu Shi realized that things were very troublesome,

At the moment, it is indeed Britain and France that dominate.

Like what Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell, Caltech......

In 1901, none of these modern schools had more than 30 undergraduate enrollments, and they couldn't be on the list at all.

Even the Zurich Institute of Technology is ranked outside the top 10,

Because Einstein and von Neumann have not yet become famous, Roentgen is about to be recognized and will win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

However, Roentgen was working at the University of Munich at the time of the award.

Headache when landing,

"I've really done a bad job for myself."

The rest snickered,

It's rare to see the land, and there are times when I'm stumped.

After a while, Lu Shi asked, "How do you calculate the two indicators of employer reputation and unit faculty paper citations?" ”

Solomon explains: "Employer reputation is a good explanation, students are going to work after graduation, and what employers say about them is employer reputation. As for faculty paper citations, we divide the total number of citations of university research papers in a year by the number of faculty members at the university. ”

Lu Shi's eyes lit up,

"Finally let me find the loophole...... Ahem...... What I mean by this is that the weight of the citations of the unit faculty paper should be reduced. ”

Nikolic asked, "Why lower?" This is the key to measuring academic impact. ”

Lu Shixiao,

"First of all, can you exclude self-citation?"

"Ah......h

Nikolic had nothing to say.

There are two types of paper citations: self-citation and other citation.

Generally speaking, the dedication is cited by others other than the author and collaborators.

And self-citation is a complement to his citation.

Lu Shi said: "We take Cambridge as an example to discuss, because it is easy to have a situation of academic clustering, and there are too many self-references, and it is impossible to measure academic influence. Moreover, your algorithms are too demanding for data collection to be accurate. ”

After all, it's not the Internet era,

There is no network, and it all depends on manual statistics, and the error is very large.

Nikolić was convinced,

"It is true that the proportion of citations in faculty papers should be reduced."

Lu Shi nodded,

"It's just a 10 percent reduction."

Nikolic immediately asked: "What about the extra 10%?" ”

Lu Shi had already thought about it,

"Of these, 5% is added to the employer's reputation; The other 5% is listed as a separate item, which is called revolutionary. ”

Nikolić asks: "'Revolutionary' means that academic research has made a breakthrough in a field that has revolutionized the field?" Like Sir Newton's "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"? ”

Lu Shi didn't speak,

On the contrary, Solomon on the side understood, and said in a low voice: "'Revolution', literally. ”

"Huh?"

Nikolic was a little confused.

Churchill laughed,

"The students are full of energy, and of course they will have justice in their hearts, and they want to kick those corrupt masters off the stage of history. This 'revolutionary' is, in other words, the student movement. ”

Nikolic: "......"

This change is a great weakening of Cambridge and Oxford, which focus on academics.

Lu Shi said: "In addition, the weight of the proportion of international teachers has been increased, and the weight of the proportion of international students has been reduced. ”

Before or weakened the British,

Now it's time to strengthen the United States.

Nikolić said, "Teacher, why don't you rush first?" Shall I give you a rough calculation of the final result? ”

Lu Shi nodded,

"Okay."

Nikolic took out a pen and paper and began to calculate.

He wrote and drew for a while, and then suddenly asked, "Thiri, how many student movements took place at the University of Paris last year?" ”

Solomon scratched his head,

"How do I remember this? However, the French ~ everyone who understands understands. In addition, the University of Paris is already large, and it also recruits female students who frequently make trouble because of the feminist movement, and there must be no less than 100 demonstrations a year. ”

Nikolic frowned,

"If a hundred times are 0.5 points, then Cambridge can only get 0.05 points."

He wrote for a while, and then said: "Professor Lu, according to this algorithm, Yale and Harvard should be able to enter the top ten." Because the United States is now in a period of rapid development, the employment environment is good, and the reputation of employers is naturally preferred. ”

"Whew~"

Lu Shi couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

There are two schools in the U.S. that are in the top 10.

Who would have thought,

"However, Cambridge and Oxford fell, and the University of Paris went up."

Landtime: !!

Wardhouse: !!

Churchill:!!!

All three were stunned.

Wardhouse was the first to react and said loudly: "That's not good, the purpose of our global university rankings is not to let the French go up and enjoy the results." ”

Lu Shi walked to Nikolich's side,

"Show me the formula for scoring."

Nikolic let out an "oh~" and handed over the pen and paper.

Although Lu Shi is facing a simple weighted average, it is still one head and two large,

There's so much data!

He muttered to himself as he wrote and drawn.

Minutes and seconds passed.

finally

"That's it!"

Lu Shi handed over the final form.

And the crowd came up and looked,

Academic reputation: 41%;

Employer reputation: 16%;

Faculty Essay Citations: 22%;

Student-faculty ratio: 10%;

Proportion of international teachers: 6%;

Percentage of international students: 2%;

Revolutionary: 3%.

In the end, only the teacher-student ratio is an integer multiple of 10 points.

“……”

“……”

“……”

Silence swept in,

The atmosphere in the office became extremely eerie.

Lu Shi said: "Nigati, you recalculate it according to the weight I gave and see the ranking." ”

Nikolić began to bury his head in the calculations.

The end result is unsurprising,

Cambridge and Oxford remain in the top two, with the University of Paris back in third place.

Lu Shi wiped his sweat,

The heart said, fortunately, he is a master of micro-exercises.

(End of chapter)