On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhao Yi left the Zhou family and embarked on his return journey alone, while Zhou Jinyu would not go back until after the Lantern Festival. This was the advantage of being a teacher, as he had more holidays.
On the way back to Beijing, you need to go to two universities to check out the situation, which may take about two days, and then take your own private plane back to Beijing directly without stopping in the middle.
The preparations for the construction of Tianwen University of Information Technology began in the second half of 1986. However, enrollment began during the summer vacation of 1987. It took less than a year, and the construction speed was very fast.
Tianwen University of Information Technology is relatively small compared to Tianwen University, but compared to other domestic universities, both the area and enrollment scale are not small.
As the first university in Jiujiang and the first university in the country to focus on information science research, the city government naturally provides the greatest support. The city government accompanies all the school procedures throughout the process.
Although with Zhao Yi's relationship, no one would usually have trouble with the procedures for running a school, the attitude of the city government really moved everyone at Tianwen University of Information Technology.
In the past, it was very difficult to support a university. For provinces with relatively poor economies, having another university would actually be a huge burden, unless the central government funded its establishment.
Just like the University of Science and Technology of China, after it withdrew from the capital, it successively visited Hubei, Henan and Jiangxi. Although Hubei's economy was not bad at that time, it had a lot of universities.
As for Henan and Jiangxi, their economies are simply poor and the burden of raising a university is too heavy. Even in Anhui Province, which is willing to accept it, the settlement process is not smooth sailing.
In recent years, the economy of most provinces and cities has improved significantly, and the attitude towards universities has changed greatly from before. Many areas are actually very welcoming of universities running schools locally.
But places with good economies before had naturally more universities, and the conditions in these places are often not bad now, or even better, so it is almost impossible to move other schools.
Thanks to Zhao Yi's special care in recent years, Jiangxi's economy has developed by leaps and bounds, from a province that was previously dominated by agriculture to a province with a strong industrial economy.
Nanchang has a huge military industrial cluster that leads the world, and Jiujiang has the world's largest Internet industry center. Although the number of employees cannot be compared with the industry, the tax revenue generated is greater than that of industrial enterprises.
Other prefectures and cities choose which industries to develop based on their own characteristics. For example, Jingdezhen mainly develops ceramic materials and ceramic products, and Zhangshu mainly develops the cultivation and research of Chinese herbal medicines.
The remaining prefectures and cities have combined with industries in surrounding provinces and cities to form a regional industrial development trend. Although they are not as good as these prefectures and cities with complete industrial chains, the overall economic development is still very good.
Therefore, with more money on hand, talent discovery and scientific research will become an important part of future industrial development, and a craze for running schools will naturally arise.
But it is not that easy to run a high-quality university. Although the government has a lot of resources, it can only merge the previously scattered smaller colleges or vocational schools into a larger one. University or college.
As mentioned before, Jiujiang College came about in this way, merging the Finance and Economics College, Normal College, Medical College and Jiujiang Education College in Jiujiang City.
In the previous life, the merger had to wait until 2002. This time, the Jiujiang Municipal Government is still bold. It has started the merger process last year and it is expected that the merger will be completed this year.
The merger is only the first step. If you want to develop well, you have to invest a lot of funds every year. Although most of the funds are provided by China Education Company, the city government will also provide a lot of funds to support it.
The way Chinese education companies provide funding is based on a comprehensive assessment of their enrollment size and school carrying capacity, and financial support is provided based on the number of students.
According to the enrollment scale of Jiujiang College, if it wants to develop and expand in a short period of time, it is not enough to rely solely on the financial support of Chinese education companies. The most it can do is to build more teaching buildings and other hardware facilities.
But the most important thing for an institution of higher learning is its soft power, and soft power includes its faculty and scientific research atmosphere.
These are the most expensive things in an institution of higher learning, and they are also the least visible. Especially in our country, universities with high-end scientific research faculty have serious deficiencies.
On the one hand, the overall talent scale of our country is insufficient, and on the other hand, the rapid development of our country's economy has led to the increasing ability of enterprises to absorb scientific research talents. Especially the scale of scientific research talents of its subsidiaries is very large.
Among this huge team of scientific research talents, part of them are talents they have cultivated themselves. In order to meet the development needs of the enterprise, the enterprise invests a lot of energy in self-cultivation of talents every year.
The other part is to recruit people from colleges and universities. Although it is not mainstream, the total number is still quite large. This is even worse for the domestic higher education field, which already has insufficient teachers.
Fortunately, his companies also understand this truth. The more people they bring in, the less effective they will be in cultivating domestic talents. In the end, it will be their own interests that will be harmed, so the scale is not very large.
If a merged higher education institution like this wants to achieve results in a short period of time, it will inevitably need to invest more resources in attracting students from other schools. This is inevitable.
In fact, it is not just the Jiujiang Municipal Government that is doing this, the Jiangxi Provincial Government is also actively doing this, which is to merge the relatively scattered and weak institutions in the province to establish larger and stronger institutions of higher learning. school.
This model is not just a behavior of Jiangxi Province. In fact, almost all provinces and cities across the country adopt this model to develop strategies for higher education institutions.
In fact, this approach treats the symptoms rather than the root cause, but it is of great benefit in expanding the scale of national enrollment and obtaining financial support from Chinese education companies.
This is also the reason why Chinese education companies have raised the single talent training fee so high, in order to provide funds to expand the campus area, increase teaching facilities, and prepare for the expansion of enrollment.
Currently, Chinese education companies have not used artificial intelligence teachers in colleges and universities because the current number of teachers can barely support the current student teaching tasks.
At the same time, it is also to prevent major universities from becoming dependent. If it is taken out early, then each university will only need to desperately expand its scale, and it will have to take care of the teaching problems of undergraduate students, which may also have a negative impact on the construction of teaching staff. Don't care.
However, relying solely on the teaching capabilities of major universities is increasingly unable to meet the rapid development of higher education. It will be inevitable for intelligent teachers to enter university classrooms.
At the annual meeting that just passed, Zhao Yi also decided to use fixed scores as the baseline for admissions. Judging from the current learning situation of students in our country, the number of admissions will further increase.
Moreover, as compulsory education becomes more and more mature, an increasing proportion of students will be able to meet the baseline in the future. Eventually, it is likely that more than 90% of students will be eligible to go to college.
If it were not for the intensive construction of intermediate-level artificial intelligence, such a decision would not be a good thing for our country's current higher education, but would be a disaster.
He made this decision not only because he will have mid-level artificial intelligence in his hands immediately, but more importantly, in the near future, the demand for domestic low-end jobs will be greatly reduced and will be replaced by robots.
He is now expanding the scale and enrollment of higher education to prepare for the future. This is an emergency situation. Who told him to build high-end robots without any trouble
His previous idea was actually very simple. The development of colleges and universities will not change, and more students will still master a skill through vocational education, and then be able to get paid by engaging in industrial labor, ensuring a worry-free life.
Moreover, such an arrangement can also improve the quality of our country's workers and continue to expand our country's industrial manufacturing capabilities. There was nothing wrong with this arrangement at that time. It can only be said that things are unpredictable and changing too fast.
Tianwen University of Information Technology, like Tianwen University, is a private university and the government does not need to inject funds into it. However, the Jiujiang Municipal Government generously gave 5,000 acres of land for free, and the environment is also very good.
According to the plan, the enrollment scale of Tianwen University of Information Technology is about 10,000 to 20,000, and a large number of teachers come from the research department employees of its affiliated companies.
But it is these employees who have made Tianwen University of Information Technology become the information technology university with the strongest faculty in the country and even the world, because their employee resumes are so luxurious.
Just pick anyone here, and they are all big names in the fields of domestic semiconductors, communications, electronic materials, software, and the Internet. They are all people who have led large-scale research projects and achieved extraordinary results.
Although many of the technologies here come from him, it does not mean that the leaders of these projects are incompetent. With the hard work and learning of the technical information he provided, their strength is still top-notch in the outside world.
Without these heavyweights in charge, the development of his industry would not have been so smooth. At least he would not be as carefree as he is now, and he must be unable to do all the work.
The scientific researchers of this era have a very high spirit of research and hard work. However, they were not so powerful because they had no access to leading technical information before, their foundation was relatively weak, and they lacked funds and supporting industrial strength.
The companies under his umbrella require technology, capital, and supporting industrial equipment. Naturally, these scientific researchers are growing very fast.
Although Tianwen University of Information Technology is a start-up university, with this list, it directly applied to the Ministry of Education for the qualification to award a doctoral degree, becoming the university that awards the highest degree level and the largest number of subjects in the domestic information technology category.
In addition, it is a private college and has its own enrollment plan. It can select students with talents in this field from high school students across the country in advance, and the quality of the students is also very excellent.
To be honest, our country's development in the field of information technology in recent years can be said to be rapid and rapid. It has long made people in other countries jealous, but there is no way to start.
Because the strength of our country's universities is seriously unequal to the strength of enterprises. The technical level mastered by enterprises is obviously much higher than that of universities. As a result, students from many countries who want to come here to learn technology have no place to go.
Because after their research, they found that even if you study abroad in domestic universities, the probability of learning advanced technologies is very low. This can be seen from the courses they set up.
In addition, Chinese education companies will not provide scholarships for foreign students, and major universities do not have much money to recruit international students. This has led to a situation where students from developed countries look down on them, and students from third world countries have no money.
Even at Tianwen University, people who come to study abroad basically come for their astronomy, and other subjects rarely gain favor from foreign students.
After the establishment of Tianwen University of Information Technology and the announcement of the teaching staff, a large number of foreign students immediately submitted applications to study abroad. Even without scholarships, they were still flocking to it.
It's just that Tianwen University of Information Technology is a start-up, and many things are not fully prepared yet. Let alone international students, even the domestic student enrollment scale has not reached the maximum.
Therefore, the first class did not enroll a single international student at all. As for whether it will enroll students in the future, it depends on the situation. Anyway, Tianwen University of Information Technology itself is not short of money, and there is no need to rely on tuition fees from international students to raise funds.
Different from the teaching method of Tianwen University, the daily teaching of Tianwen Information Technology University is handed over to intelligent teachers. First, it is to test the teaching performance of intelligent teachers and whether they can enable students to reach the required knowledge level.
On the other hand, these faculty members usually need to engage in research work and do not have much time for daily teaching. They spend most of their time in the laboratory.
But unlike other schools, at the undergraduate level, students at Tianwen University of Information Technology need to participate in relevant experimental operations, rather than purely theoretical teaching like other schools.
On the one hand, this is because Tianwen Information Technology University's goal is to cultivate the top students in the country, so it is willing to invest more funds for each student.
You must know that among the costs of colleges and universities, the cost of theoretical teaching is the lowest. On the contrary, the cost of experiments that are not paid much attention to is very high, and the higher the level of experiments, the higher the cost.
But unlike exploratory experiments, at least experiments at this level still have a certain value, and it is likely that experimental results with significant influence will be produced, and they are not entirely consumption projects.
This kind of undergraduate teaching experiment basically does not have much scientific research value, because the experimental level is too low and is used for students to practice their skills, which is a pure consumption.
Therefore, there are not many ordinary teachers in Tianwen University of Information Technology. Most of the teachers focus on experimental teaching. From here, it can be seen that using intelligent teachers does not mean that they do not pay attention to students, but that they focus on different things. .
And the smart teachers are not that bad. Judging from the results of the last semester, the students' mastery of theoretical knowledge in various subjects is not low, and even exceeds the level of students in related disciplines in all domestic universities.
This fully proves that intelligent teachers actually have greater advantages than real teachers in theoretical teaching at the undergraduate level. This is why Wang Huaijun, president of China Education Company, does not object to the use of intelligent teachers at the undergraduate level.
Of course, this does not mean that intelligent teachers are already perfect. In fact, before this, intelligent teachers also studied the teaching videos of other teachers, and their teaching level was not higher than that of teachers who produced these teaching videos.
However, as time goes by, the learning ability and adjustment ability of intelligent teachers are still very strong. Through different teaching experiments, they can find the best teaching methods and gradually become perfect.
This teaching experiment is not in the classroom, but in after-school tutoring, because the classroom is for all students, and the after-school tutoring is formulated according to the different situations of each student, and is more qualified for experimental data collection.
Then, through the collection of these data, analysis and comparison, we can find teaching methods that can be easier for students to understand, and then form a new teaching plan, and then use it in public classes.
It is through such step-by-step improvements that the teaching methods of intelligent teachers become more and more perfect, and they are well aware of students' difficulties and common problems. In this way, it is impossible to learn theoretical knowledge well, unless the students really don't want to learn.
Starting from the second half of this year, there is a high probability that Chinese education companies will promote the intelligent teacher teaching model in major universities across the country, and teaching tasks will not become the main burden of universities.
By then, there will not be a big gap in theoretical teaching among major universities. The gap will mainly be reflected in the experimental teaching part, which will become a fierce competition among major universities.
Zhao Yi is happy to see this situation. In the past, my country's college textbooks accounted for too much theoretical knowledge, and the proportion of hands-on practice was too small, resulting in the students being trained with relatively poor practical work ability.
If it is purely based on theoretical teaching, what is the difference between it and the lifelong education plan launched by Chinese education companies? Anyway, you can learn theoretical knowledge, so why do you have to go to university to get a diploma
In this way, the gap between full-time degrees and ordinary degrees cannot be widened, and the original intention of establishing universities will not be reflected. The students they train will not dare to say that they are better than those who have never gone to university.
Of course, students who participate in lifelong education programs are not without merit. As long as they have a solid grasp of theoretical knowledge, it is very easy to train them when entering a company. It is always better than knowing nothing at all.
Therefore, Chinese education companies will also award students who participate in lifelong education programs and pass the learning achievement test with academic degree certificates equivalent to corresponding university education, giving social workers a channel for promotion.
And not all disciplines have many experiments. The importance of experiments is mainly in science and engineering. In liberal arts, some experiments also need to be carried out, but the proportion is much smaller.
Some liberal arts majors are basically purely theoretical teaching and require little experimentation, such as literature majors, history majors, etc.
In the future, universities without strong financial strength are likely to gradually shift to liberal arts teaching, while schools with sufficient teachers and funds will focus on science and engineering teaching, forming a very obvious change. (End of chapter)