Then he looked down and found that the Chinese Education Company also sent an email, which made him more concerned, because under normal circumstances, they are different from regular commercial enterprises and do not send operating reports on a quarterly basis.
For welfare companies like this, unless they encounter special circumstances, they usually start to prepare annual reports to describe the company's operating conditions at the end of the year. There is no need to do this at other times.
Because they are not a for-profit unit, it is good if they can maintain a balance of revenue and expenditure. As long as the company can run smoothly, there is no need to do too much reporting to him.
I clicked on the document and read it carefully. It turned out that the debate over the expansion of higher education had begun to expand, so I sent an email to tell him the situation and asked how to deal with it.
There is not much of a problem with the expansion of higher education. The whole country is supportive. After all, my country's high-end talents seriously do not match the speed of my country's economic development.
Only by enrolling more college entrance examination students into universities can we solve the problem of talent shortage in our country and help the economy continue to develop well.
However, his enrollment expansion plan is a bit too radical. The originally fixed proportion will be directly admitted based on scores. As long as the score exceeds this score, you can go to college.
Originally, this was not controversial, because the admission score line was actually very high, higher than the so-called 985 admission line in the previous life.
Under normal circumstances, not so many people can obtain such high scores, so his plan was successfully passed. Some people even thought that it was not conducive to expanding enrollment.
Because at that time, high school students had not been using Intelligence Milk for a long time. Even if their intelligence improved significantly in a short period of time, the foundation was not necessarily very solid, and students with high scores were not that common.
But when he chose to use the score line to determine the enrollment scale, the students had been using Intellectual Milk for a relatively long time. Even if their previous foundation was not very solid, they basically relied on high intelligence to make up for it and complete their foundation.
In addition, this reform has given many students hope, and the original involution situation has collapsed instantly. They do not need to compare with other students, they only need to compare with their previous selves.
This makes many students study harder, and they can see the gap between themselves and the prescribed score line. As long as they cross this score line, they will jump over the dragon's gate.
Therefore, whether those who had good grades before or those who had bad grades before, they all worked harder than before. After all, they all drank the milk of intelligence, and their IQs will not be any worse.
As long as they really want to work hard and put it into practice, the results will not be too bad. Naturally, the results will generally be very good, and there will naturally be a lot of people with high scores in the college entrance examination.
The number of students enrolling this time has increased so much compared to the last enrollment season that many scholars feel panicked. With such a huge enrollment scale, they will face many problems.
First of all, whether it can be educated, for educationists, they hope that all the students they recruit will be successful. Quantity is important, but quality is even more important.
If these students cannot be trained to become talented students, no matter how many they are, it will not mean much. In the past, our country's higher education could only accommodate a limited number of students, and the number of high-quality teachers was also limited.
This is a real problem, and it is not something that can be achieved in the short term just by investing money. It requires long-term training to form a high-quality and high-level teaching team.
They also know that in order to improve the hardware conditions of colleges and universities, Chinese education companies have invested a large amount of funds and even used large amounts of funds from other aspects to subsidize this area.
Among them, Chinese pharmaceutical companies have invested 500 billion yuan, and Chinese medical companies have also mobilized a lot of funds to enter Chinese education companies, with the purpose of preparing for large-scale enrollment expansion.
In fact, the hardware conditions of my country's colleges and universities have indeed made a qualitative leap in the past few years, and they have basically been built into modern campuses. Not only have the daily teaching facilities been improved, but investment in laboratories has also increased significantly.
But these are all hardware. Good hardware conditions do not mean that good students can be trained. The most important thing is a high-level teaching team. If this aspect is insufficient, it is not much different from being free-range.
Of course, they are also aware that Chinese education companies are promoting smart teachers as a means of theoretical teaching in colleges and universities across the country, but they are not clear about the effectiveness.
Freshmen were admitted in September, and it has been less than a month since they were fully admitted. It is certainly not possible to see the effect. Many colleges and universities are even currently undergoing military training and have not officially started classes yet.
It is precisely because of the failure to see the effect of this teaching model and at the same time such a large enrollment scale that there is a serious split between the two, which leads to such a huge controversy.
The second is the issue of future employment. If students spend several years going to college, only to find after graduation that the land is full of "high-achieving students" and there are not enough suitable jobs, big problems will arise.
In the eyes of many people, there are only a few jobs suitable for senior intellectuals, and most jobs are manual labor. This is a common phenomenon in the current division of labor.
Our country's large-scale training of college students has, on the one hand, resulted in an excessive number of college students, fierce competition for jobs suitable for them, and serious involution.
Once the phenomenon of involution occurs, it is actually very painful and terrifying. The wages are low, the overtime hours are long, the pressure of competition is high, and there is no sense of happiness.
On the other hand, the number of ordinary workers has been greatly reduced. By then, factories will be unable to recruit workers and restaurants will not be able to find waiters. By then, our country's economy will suffer a huge blow.
If an enterprise cannot operate production normally, in order to survive, it can only relocate its factory to other countries where ordinary labor is abundant. The industry will be transferred and the domestic industry will be hollowed out.
This is very detrimental to the current good economic development situation in our country. It will cause serious social conflicts and lead to bad ideas, such as the theory that reading is useless.
Although they have also heard that robots will be used to replace ordinary labor positions, it has not happened after all, and they don’t know when it will be realized. If it has not been realized, then it is still unclear whether it can last until then.
More importantly, the cost of robots is not low. Not all companies can afford to use robots, and the cost of using robots is even much higher than hiring real people.
If this is the case, it is also not conducive to economic development. After all, it is the nature of enterprises to pursue more profits. High costs are naturally detrimental to the development of enterprises. Competitiveness will be reduced, profitability will also be reduced, and investment desire will be reduced.
Therefore, it is understandable that many people have opinions on this reform of China Education Corporation and the Ministry of Education. After all, these considerations are very necessary. If no one has opinions, problems will arise.
Anyone with a sense of responsibility will know that sooner or later something will go wrong. If you don't think of a solution until something really goes wrong, it will be too late.
However, it has not yet risen to the level of personal attacks. Everyone is discussing the matter as it is, speaking out about the risks faced, hoping to make improvements and avoid risks.
In fact, there is no way to improve it, because there is currently nothing like this in the world. There is no other way except reducing the enrollment scale.
It is also very simple to reduce the enrollment scale. There is no need to change the current enrollment system. As long as the college entrance examination is made more difficult, many people can be blocked.
To be honest, this situation is not what Zhao Yi wants to see. If he really blindly raises the difficulty of the college entrance examination, it will be to reduce the enrollment scale, which will run counter to his original intention.
The difficulty of the current college entrance examination is actually not low, and it is even much more difficult than the college entrance examination in Zhao Yi's previous life. Because of the milk of intelligence, if it is too easy, students may not really need to spend much effort to get a high score. .
Although he does not want students to spend all their time preparing for exams, he also hopes that students can have a deeper understanding of the knowledge they have learned instead of just superficial knowledge.
He does not want to see the difficulty of the college entrance examination being set to limit the number of students admitted, but to return to the purpose of education itself, weakening the purpose of college entrance examination selection and emphasizing the examination of students' learning conditions.
As long as their basic skills can meet the learning ability at the university level, they can already be qualified as new college students. This is the original purpose of the college entrance examination, at least that's what he thinks.
The college entrance examination serves as a threshold for limiting the number of students admitted. The main reason is that higher education resources are limited and resources have to be allocated in this way. Those who can pass the college entrance examination are not necessarily the real talents needed.
If there is no effective way to solve the above problems, it is very likely that the next college entrance examination will be significantly more difficult and the admission rate will be reduced.
That's why China Education Company is so anxious, because doing so obviously does not conform to Zhao Yi's philosophy, nor does it conform to China Education Company's philosophy. You must know that they were the first to come up with this idea.
Because Chinese education companies are actual participants in the compulsory education stage, they know the learning situation of each student below best, so they are so anxious.
Because in their view, these students have good talents. If the admission rate is really limited, many talents will be blocked and either engage in manual labor positions or study abroad.
Although every labor position contributes to the country, it is undeniable that the value created by knowledge labor in current society is generally higher than that of manual labor.
Studying abroad is to cultivate talents for foreign countries. We work so hard to improve the level of compulsory education, but we are not serving other countries. The occurrence of this situation is also a loss for us.
In addition, the number of high-level positions in our country may be very limited in the future. There is a high probability that these students who study abroad will not return to their home countries for employment, because they may not be able to compete if they come.
Therefore, not only those experts and scholars who question this admissions system have this concern, but also Chinese education companies also hope that he can come up with a practical method that can not only avoid the disadvantages caused by the previous college entrance examination, but also solve practical problems.
As long as he doesn't give a perfect solution for one day, the discussion on this problem will not end, and it will get stronger and stronger until it has to be faced.
What he said about using robots to replace manual workers does not yet have a specific implementation timetable. Although he has mastered the technology, the decision to start it is not entirely up to him.
So now he has no way to give a clear answer to this question, and he cannot tell them when social change will begin. Therefore, if he wants to solve the problem, he cannot simply start from this perspective.
This question is divided into two parts. The first part is how these college students will be arranged. The second part is that manual labor will be scarce.
For the second problem, he can only promise that he will definitely come up with a solution when the time comes. He can even issue a military order to dispel his concerns. He can even arrange for some experts and scholars to see the level of the robots held by Xuantian Technology Company.
Therefore, this problem is actually very easy to solve, and with his credibility, he only needs to make a commitment to the outside world, and basically it will not cause too big a problem. His credibility can do this.
So what really needs to be solved is the first problem, which is also the most difficult to solve, because whether robots replace manual labor or not, this problem will not disappear.
He has mentioned before that he is willing to give free wages to his employees, which will also include a large number of senior intellectuals. Anyone who enters his industrial system will be supported by this policy.
But compared to manual workers, he hopes that the high-level intellectuals who come in can exert greater value, instead of just receiving subsidies and waiting to die, so that the significance of what they have learned before will not be particularly significant.
Therefore, these senior intellectuals must be allowed to use what they have learned. Although they may not necessarily work as intensively as they are now, they must also make contributions. This can use the system to encourage them to move in this direction.
For example, their basic salary is no different from manual workers. If you want to get higher income and live a better life, you can only contribute to the company and get rewards.
This requires him to establish a complete contribution system, which is not limited to scientific research contributions, but includes all aspects of social development and enterprise development. In this system, the government even needs to be involved.
Or there will be two systems in the country, one based on its industrial groups and one led by the government, because the purposes and requirements of the two systems are different.
Therefore, their evaluation standards for contributions are also different. Some contributions may be very important in the eyes of enterprises, but not so important in the eyes of the government, and vice versa.
This leads to the same contribution, but the gains obtained in the two systems are different, which leads to different enthusiasm and motivation for research. This is why two systems are constructed.
The government system includes not only scientific researchers, but also government staff and other units related to state functions. It cannot be that these people also need to be supported by his industry. This does not make sense.
The support of the government system can only rely on the taxes collected by the government, while the maintenance of the enterprise system relies on the income of the enterprise. Relatively speaking, the government system is more stable.
However, when the scale of the industry reaches the scale of his industry, it is actually very stable. It is not so easy to cause trouble, especially as the business continues to operate and various systems that support the stable operation of the company are improved.
For example, ordinary enterprises are engaged in buying and selling and do not have a clear grasp of the market, international political relations, and the previous grievances and interests of various groups, so the probability of encountering a black swan time is much higher.
But if the company's research is very complete, it can avoid many risks and make decisions that are beneficial to the company's operations. The risks of operation will be smaller and the stability will naturally be good.
In order to allow these high-level intellectuals to develop their strengths and give full play to their abilities, it is necessary to prepare the basic conditions for them.
For example, if a scientific researcher wants to make results, he must need a laboratory. Without the support of equipment and materials in the laboratory, no matter how talented he is, he will never be able to make earth-shattering results at home.
Therefore, building enough laboratories will be a very important infrastructure in the future, allowing researchers in various cities to use laboratory equipment nearby to turn their inspiration into reality.
Of course, in addition to this, the enterprise itself needs to effectively organize scientific research projects to tackle key problems, and cannot rely entirely on individual spontaneous research behaviors, which is purposeless and inefficient.
Therefore, the future research field will be a combination of the two. The reason why research projects are not completely led by enterprises is mainly because there were a very large number of scientific researchers at that time and sufficient scientific research strength.
The number of scientific research projects led by enterprises may not require so many scientific researchers. This is based on considerations of possibility. Maybe artificial intelligence has enough ability to organize scientific research work, which is not impossible.
However, the mid-level artificial intelligence he currently has cannot do this due to limitations in computing power. In the future, the era of quantum computing may be able to solve this problem.
In addition to follow-up considerations for senior intellectuals, there will also be corresponding arrangements for manual workers who are off work in the future, and they will not be completely left to eat and die at home.
It’s not that I feel sorry for the money, but that we cannot let society form this kind of trend. If this trend is formed, civilization may not develop and big problems will arise.
Therefore, in the future, there will also be a contribution system for the safety of manual workers to prevent them from completely waiting to die. At least their skills need to be maintained.
The reason why they emphasize the need to maintain their skills is mainly because if a problem suddenly occurs in the industrial system dominated by artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence will be able to deal with it in time instead of being helpless. This is part of the emergency plan.
Although this emergency plan may not be available for decades or hundreds of years, once it is used, it can solve big problems.
Because it can cause the entire society's artificial intelligence to shut down, it shows that the problem is quite serious and cannot be solved in a short time, so this emergency plan is very necessary.
There is currently no conclusion on how to maintain it, but there is also a way, that is, employees who leave their jobs must comply with the company's arrangements during the year and actually participate in production for at least 2 months. After passing the assessment, they can get the full quota in the next year. compensate.
If they never pass the assessment, then the practice time will be extended. If they never pass, then the compensation funds for the next year can only be cut, so that they will be more motivated to complete the assigned tasks.
Therefore, in the future, manual workers will not stop working at all, but their working hours will be greatly reduced, which will not lead to them being out of work for a long time and knowing nothing about the level of industrial production in our country.
In addition, if they make other contributions that make the company's production and operation more profitable, they will also receive rewards, rather than being directly positioned as manual workers.
If they learn new skills, they can apply for assessment. After passing the assessment, they can receive relevant rewards, so that their living standards are not limited to the relatively fixed level of compensation funds.
In his philosophy, people can be given more rights to make free choices, but they must not form a lazy atmosphere, which will lead to the corruption of social atmosphere and affect the development of civilization.
Even lazy people must be controlled within a certain range. Although they also have no worries about food and clothing, and even live better than people in many countries, they are definitely much worse than those who work hard to make progress.
Only by forming this gap can more people work hard to achieve a better life, but they will not fall into difficulties in life without working hard. Therefore, the people's mentality will be more peaceful and the pressure will not be so great.
After thinking about this clearly, Zhao Yi gave a reply to the China Education Company, describing his rough considerations and also the next arrangements.
After all, the things mentioned above are still some time away. He must take certain measures now to dispel the concerns of all parties. Otherwise, in the eyes of some people, it will just be a big deal.
And his method is to let their major companies cooperate with major domestic universities to establish laboratories based on their own business development needs and possible future development needs.
Initially, the number of these laboratories may be as high as several thousand, or even more. On the one hand, the main purpose is to cultivate the abilities of school students and eliminate some of the problems of difficulty in cultivating good students for large-scale enrollment expansion.
On the other hand, it provides a place for scientific research for senior personnel who will join his companies in the future. At the same time, companies can also use the resources of universities across the country to develop themselves. Especially now, this purpose is also very important.
When thousands of laboratories are established, some of the talents trained by major universities will be classified according to majors and entered into corporate operations, while talents in science and engineering can enter major laboratories.
Of course, projects involving the company's core scientific research will still be conducted in the company's own internal laboratories. After all, these laboratories have many people and are relatively weak in the ability to keep business secrets.
Although it is impossible to solve all problems at once with the scale of the laboratory currently invested, it can dispel most people's concerns and at least see practical actions.
Coupled with his idea below, the Chinese education company still has a certain degree of persuasion when presented, instead of being empty-mouthed like it is now, which is naturally difficult to win people's trust. (End of chapter)