When will I have a long tassel?

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

"Mr. Tang, the school council has approved in principle the establishment of Dongye University Canglong Mechanical College in Linhe. The next step is to submit it to the Ministry of Education for approval. In accordance with the spirit of the Ministry of Education's instructions some time ago, this matter has been approved. It’s basically a done deal.”

The speaker was Fan Wenping, vice president of Dongye University. This time he came to Linhe with the student practice team. His main task was to meet with Tang Zifeng to discuss the cooperation between the two schools. In addition to Fan Wenping and Tang Zifeng, the people in the room also included Shao Junjie, deputy mayor of Linhe City, Sun Fanzhuo, director of the Mechanical Department of Dongye University, and Zhang Jianyang, deputy general manager of Linji Group.

The Ouyang Kang incident made Tang Zifeng realize that there is a disconnect between scientific research in universities and the needs of the actual production department. Ming Polytechnic is responsible for the machine tool project of the Ministry of Science and Technology. It considers how to produce scientific research results and does not particularly care about the ideas of the practical department.

This situation is not uncommon. The results produced by some colleges and universities passed expert appraisal, but then there was no news. Because there is still a deep gap from the laboratory to the production line. If we cannot cross it, such results will be worthless.

This is true for scientific research, and so is teaching. What is taught in mechanical majors in many colleges and universities is contrary to production practice. After graduation, students cannot adapt to the needs of the production line.

In addition, the mechanical major is an unpopular major in China nowadays. Students with good grades are unwilling to apply for this major. Some students with poor grades who are transferred to this major also hold the idea of ​​​​getting a diploma and changing careers in the future. It is very rare for students like Yu Xiaohui who are dedicated to learning mechanics well.

After seeing this situation, Tang Zifeng came up with the idea of ​​cultivating talents himself. He knows very well that industrial competition ultimately comes down to talent. Whichever country has the best talent will be able to occupy the industrial high ground.

Speaking of cultivating talents by himself, of course Tang Zifeng would not be able to set up a university to recruit students. Putting aside whether the Ministry of Education agrees or not, even if the Ministry of Education agrees to open a university of 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 it.

Linji Group does have a technical school, which was formed by the merger of the original Linyi Technical School and Tengji Technical School. It is mainly responsible for employee training. It is equivalent to transforming the traditional method of masters and apprentices in the factory into modern education. Way. Students trained in technical schools can master basic industrial production knowledge, understand various production specifications, and can start working in the workshop. However, it would be useless to ask these students to design machine tools. This is not what they do in the first place.

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

This approach is beneficial to both companies and schools. From an enterprise's perspective, being able to obtain talents trained according to their own requirements is equivalent to providing vocational training for future employees in school. From the school's perspective, it has increased income-generating opportunities and expanded its scale.

You know, when schools conduct evaluations, students from these independent colleges can also be counted. The more students there are, the higher the school's score will be, and various subsequent benefits will follow.

Tang Zifeng had heard of the independent college model in later generations, but he didn't expect that he could actually operate it. He immediately asked Xiao Wenjun to send a message to the dean of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University, asking if the other party was interested in co-founding an independent college with him, and said arrogantly that money was not an issue.

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xiao Wenjun with a look of disgust. Xiao Wenjun told him that top universities like Qingbei would not bother to jointly establish an independent college with companies. Well, in fact, people just think that Linji Group is not big enough and its brand is not loud enough. If companies like GE and Siemens were to make such an offer, it would be a different matter.

Isn’t it because GE and Siemens have a “foreign” flavor?

Knowing that he could not reach Qingbei, Tang Zifeng set his sights on local colleges and universities. Of course, the first one to bear the brunt was Dongye University, the highest institution in Dongye Province.

Toyo Province originally had Toyo University and Toyo Institute of Technology. Later, the Institute of Engineering was renamed as Industrial University, and later it was merged into Toyo University. This is also a routine operation in many provinces and regions. Various international and domestic university rankings basically look at total data, such as how many papers are published in a year and how much project funding is received in a year. By combining two universities, these results can be counted together to improve the university's ranking.

The unit that Tang Zifeng wanted to cooperate with was 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 at Linyi Machinery graduated from this department, and they quite recognized its strength.

Tang Zifeng came to the door in person and had a talk with Sun Fanzhuo, chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Dongda University. Sun Fanzhuo was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately led Tang Zifeng to see Fan Wenping, the vice principal in charge of teaching. Fan Wenping was also very interested in Tang Zifeng's proposal, and the two families hit it off immediately, and soon began a feasibility study, including details on the school venue, funding sources, enrollment and employment, and other aspects.

Leave professional things to professionals. This sentence is true at all times. Tang Zifeng felt that the messy school affairs seemed very simple in front of the professionals from Dongye University.

Don’t you claim to be able to provide venues? Doesn’t your group have sufficient experimental conditions and internship opportunities? Didn't you say that you can share part of the funds?

Then enroll students.

If the enrollment flag is raised, why worry about not wanting to go to school?

As for what to do when recruiting students, just throw them into the dormitory, put up a class schedule, tell them when and where to go to class, and that's it, isn't it? As for teachers, counselors, academic administrators, dormitory managers, etc., we have them all ready.

Compared with teaching, the school is more concerned about students' employment issues. As a result of the extensive expansion of enrollment in colleges and universities across the country, employment of college students has increasingly become a big problem. Without solving this problem, Dongye University will not dare to recruit students casually.

Twenty years ago, college students were absolutely popular in society. If a unit could be assigned one or two college students, it was like finding a treasure. In many major military equipment research histories revealed in later generations, there are stories of someone being entrusted with important tasks just after graduating from college. This is not because the leaders back then were very courageous, but because there was too little talent at that time.

Let’s look at a set of data: In 1984, 475,000 students were enrolled in general colleges and universities across the country. In 2004, 4.473 million students were enrolled in general colleges and universities nationwide, a 10-fold increase in 20 years. Coupled with the accumulation of graduates over the years, who would take a college student seriously now? Which organization doesn't sort through thousands of resumes when hiring people?

Being unemployed after graduation is really not just a joke in this era.

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 enrollment. The Ministry of Education's approach is also very fair, that is, it depends on your graduate employment rate. If it can solve the employment problem, hire it. If you can't solve the employment problem, you can stop talking.

Within the school, this policy was pushed to all departments. If the employment situation of students in your department is good, we will increase the enrollment quota for you. Your employment situation is poor. Sorry, a few places will be deducted next year and transferred to departments with good employment.

The student quota represents the status of a department in the school and the treatment of teachers. If the number of students is small, you won't be able to hold so many classes, and some teachers will have insufficient workload. If the workload is insufficient, bonuses will be deducted, which will affect professional title promotion. This is simply killing the teachers.

Therefore, the leaders of each department racked their brains to change the name of the major to sound more pleasant, remove the courses that are not helpful for finding a job, and incorporate the most popular concepts in society. Even if it cannot be turned into a course for a while, at least There are also a few lectures to be given.

By the way, some parents go to the high-education consultation meeting to find out which major is best to be assigned, but it is actually unnecessary. The majors offered by the school are all easy to assign, and majors that are difficult to assign have long been strangled by the principals.

Well, in fact, some parents are worried that it is difficult to distribute the students of Qingbei Renshi. Is this because they are worried that the emperor's golden pole will rust easily?

Linji Group wants to jointly build an independent college with Toye University, and the school is most concerned about employment issues. Employment in independent colleges must also be included in the school’s employment rate, so don’t hold the school back.

The most troublesome problem for schools is the simplest for enterprises. This is the meaning of cooperation.

Tang Zifeng told Fan Wenping and Sun Fanzhuo that Linji Group was responsible for taking care of the students who graduated from the independent college. In other words, if these students cannot find jobs after graduation, Linji Group will accept them in full. Of course, the premise is that the student's performance in school is up to standard. At least he can't fail math four, right?

With Tang Zifeng's promise, Dongye University still had no hesitation. They immediately organized a capable team and began to write plans and prepare training plans. They first reported to the Provincial Department of Education and then to the Ministry of Education. Now they are waiting. The Ministry of Education approved it.

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 major that is oriented to the industrial and agricultural practice department. In addition, the plan submitted by Dongda focuses on graduation. Enterprises will take full responsibility for the employment of students. There is basically no doubt that the Ministry of Education will approve the establishment of this independent college.

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

Fan Wenping asked Tang Zifeng.