"More than a thousand exchange student places?!"
As soon as William announced about the exchange student, the students in the audience were immediately excited.
Just over half a year ago, the National People's Congress sent away a group of exchange students to the United States. This group of exchange students made countless people envious because they went to Harvard University, the world's top university.
Before this, Renmin University’s exchange program could only be carried out with second-rate universities in the United States. Not to mention top universities like Harvard, even quasi-first-rate universities may not look after Renmin University. They exchange students with Huaxia University. Generally these are schools such as Tsinghua University, Yanda, and Fudan University.
Because of this, the last batch of Harvard exchange students have become like lucky stars. They are envied not only by Renmin University students, but also by students from every university in the country.
The most enviable thing is that students like Su Yingxue are even poached by Harvard. In the eyes of other students, this is like flying up a branch and becoming a phoenix, reaching the sky in one step.
With Su Yingxue as an example, Renmin University students' desire for exchange student qualifications far exceeds that of other colleges.
Originally, the top students from various majors at Renmin University were still looking forward to Harvard being able to enter into an exchange student cooperation with Renmin University for the second time, so that they could also have the opportunity to go to Harvard University in the United States for exchange and further study.
However, the result made them very disappointed, because they did not know why, the exchange student cooperation between Harvard and Renmin University had nothing to go on since the first time.
Many students who are interested in exchange students take the initiative to inquire with teachers, professors and even school leaders, and the results they get are the same: "We have not received any exchange offers from Harvard for the time being, and the National People's Congress has also taken the initiative to apply to Harvard." We have received a second round of exchange student cooperation, but Harvard has not given any response.”
In fact, it would be really cool if Harvard could get a big response from people.
If Xie Huairu hadn't used the reason of "showing goodwill to Li Mu" to urge Harvard and the National People's Congress to cooperate in exchange students, they might not have reached actual cooperation with the National People's Congress if Harvard was given another ten years.
As for the exchange students including Su Yingxue, the actual situation is: after arriving in the United States, almost no one was able to leave a deep impression on Harvard. These proud sons of the National People's Congress, after arriving at Harvard, were quickly overwhelmed by thousands of students at Harvard. Among tens of thousands of top students, not even one can stand out.
The same goes for Su Yingxue herself. Although she showed a certain amount of talent at Harvard and was better than the other college students she went to at the same time, she had no advantage at all compared to the top students at Harvard.
It is precisely because of this that Su Yingxue was particularly tempted after receiving Harvard's offer to stay, because in her opinion, it was indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Coupled with her deep admiration and desire for Harvard, she was destined to go to Harvard. She simply couldn't refuse.
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 never had even one formal negotiation with Harvard.
The senior leaders of the National People's Congress have been reflecting on this matter for a while. At that time, everyone sat together in a meeting and reflected on whether the overall performance of the students sent out this time was too poor.
But having said that, isn't Harvard extremely satisfied with Su Yingxue? Not only do you want to keep her at Harvard, but you also promise to send her to business school and receive a full scholarship in the future? It is said that this is the first time such a thing has happened among exchange students.
The National People's Congress couldn't understand why they were still so indifferent after they had provided them with a student who satisfied them so much.
Later, a female leader remembered something and said, "Su Yingxue seems to be Li Mu's girlfriend, right?"
Only then did the leaders of the National People's Congress suddenly realize. The principal slapped the table: "No wonder, that makes sense. Come on, don't continue to communicate with Harvard in the future. It's just asking for trouble."
I thought that cooperating 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 president of the Renmin University sitting next to Li Mu was so excited after hearing these words.
Even Li Mu himself was slightly surprised.
The top ten institutions of higher learning in the UK suddenly added more than a thousand exchange student places to China. This indeed opened a very large opportunity for Chinese college students to exchange students.
Under normal circumstances, the top ten institutions of higher learning only exchange dozens of students with one country each year, or at most a hundred, and this is the United States, which has many top universities.
Generally speaking, the number of exchange students between two schools is generally controlled within ten people. Only between top universities and universities of the same level, the number of exchange students will be slightly larger.
If it is Cambridge and Harvard, having more exchange students would be in line with the actual situation of both parties. On the one hand, Europe and the United States are basically one family. On the other hand, the two schools are equally matched. The exchange of resources is relatively fair, and it is easier to achieve commonality. win.
However, the overall level of Chinese institutions of higher learning does still lag behind that of the UK. Under this premise, it is even more rare for the top ten schools in the UK to be able to offer so many exchange student places.
Li Mu also didn't expect that the Windsor family would actually help secure so many exchange student places, allowing more than a thousand top students from China to go to the UK to see the Western world every year.
This opportunity may not necessarily improve the academic abilities of these more than a thousand people, but as long as they have the opportunity to go out, it will be of great help in broadening the horizons of domestic students and improving the student landscape.
However, William only talked about more than a thousand places in his speech, but did not say how these more than a thousand places would be allocated.
It is definitely impossible to give them all to the National People's Congress. Even if the National People's Congress wants to, it cannot digest it at all, because the National People's Congress only recruits a few thousand students every year. If it sends out more than a thousand people every year, this ratio is a bit ridiculous.
Just when Li Mu himself was a little confused, William said: "The quotas for these more than a thousand exchange students have been completely determined, and there will not be any unexpected changes. However, how will these more than a thousand quotas be allocated in China? I think it is better for Mr. Li Mu, who knows the domestic situation better, to make the decision. Moreover, these ten British colleges that provide exchange student quotas also have a high degree of recognition for Mr. Li Mu, so they are willing to fully accept Li Mu on the issue of quota allocation. Mr.’s arrangement.”
William's words gave Li Mu the control of more than a thousand places.
The principal sitting next to Li Mu immediately asked him in a low voice: "Li Mu, what are you going to do with these more than a thousand exchange student places?"
Li Mu secretly thought in his heart that first of all, these more than a thousand places must be allocated. As for how to divide them, normally, since the places are provided by the top 10 universities in the UK, they should be allocated by the top 10 schools in China. Let’s digest it according to their respective strengths, but in this case, the National People’s Congress will have no advantage.
As the home court of Li Mu, the National People's Congress should naturally enjoy certain resource allocations in Li Mu's view, so Li Mu said to the principal: "In this way, after this meeting, I will ask William to compile a specific list, including which university The school will provide how many exchange student places it offers, and then I will hand over this list to you, and you will decide which ones the National People’s Congress wants and how many.”
The principal smiled and nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, okay, that's great."
Li Mu reminded: "Principal, in terms of the specific number of indicators, the National People's Congress should not account for more than 20% at most. I think we can directly use 20% as the standard. Of all the indicators given by these ten schools, the National People's Congress will take 20% in equal proportions. The remaining 80% is given to other schools.”
The principal nodded and said with a smile: "That's for sure. We can't use up all the resources. We really have to allocate some to our brother schools. I think 20% is a good ratio. The rest Give all points to other brother schools!"
Since entering the 21st century, Chinese universities have become very eager for exchange student resources from Western countries. The whole of China is constantly opening up and integrating with the world. Education, as an extremely important social foundation, naturally has a future. The urgent need to get out.
What really allows education to go global are basically the two basic models of academic cooperation and exchange student cooperation. However, it is very difficult to carry out actual cooperation at the academic level, so the most practical one is exchange students.
As a result, various universities have established "sister schools" overseas and actively signed exchange student cooperation agreements with overseas schools. For example, Tsinghua University has concluded a lot of sister schools, but top universities such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Cambridge have none. No, the reason is simple: misalignment
When Harvard cooperated with the National People's Congress, less than ten exchange student places were given. This made Yanda, Tsinghua and several other higher education institutions jealous, because except for the National People's Congress, no other university in China has cooperated with Harvard for exchange students. , the reason is because the comprehensive strength difference between schools is too big.
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. Go to Cambridge.
However, this time Cambridge has given over a hundred exchange student places at once, which is a timely help.
In fact, among the graduates of top universities in China, there are many who have been admitted to the world's top universities as graduate students. However, for schools, after students graduate, they go overseas by themselves and go to overseas schools to exchange and study with their current students. Two completely different paths. The former has almost nothing to do with them. At most, he is just an alumnus.
However, if the National People's Congress can send more than two hundred exchange students to the UK every year in the future, it will be of great help to the academic atmosphere of the entire school, the cultivation of a sense of competition among students, and the improvement of the overall level of students.
(End of chapter)