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Weekly Exclusive Selection|Universities are immersed in international games and forget their education?

2022-05-22T23:16:41.531Z


Hong Kong, which prides itself on being "internationalized", is naturally eager for "university internationalization". It must be difficult to understand the fact that Renmin University of China, Nanjing University, Lanzhou University and other mainland universities dropped out of the international university rankings earlier, and even would


Hong Kong, which claims to be "international", is naturally eager for "university internationalization". It must be difficult to understand the fact that Renmin University of China, Nanjing University, Lanzhou University and other mainland universities have withdrawn from the international university rankings earlier. , a far-left move to decouple from the world.

But judging from the educational policy that President Xi Jinping has always emphasized to build "China's independent knowledge system" to build a world-class university, the withdrawal incident is not surprising.

For Hong Kong, it is even more worth reflecting on whether our leading institutions of higher learning have become too immersed in chasing the international ranking game, thus forgetting the educational function of cultivating morality and improving people's economy, and only driving educational output with economic interests, making the Universities have become market-oriented, commercialized, and McDonald's, and they have failed to lead Hong Kong's transformation and progress through various research results?

Or is it just following the European and American standards, gradually dwarfing the national cultural roots and Hong Kong's main value, and failing to achieve two-way integration and promote mutual assistance and win-win through internationalization?

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In the process of implementing "internationalization", colleges and universities around the world are either indulging in profit-oriented educational output, adopting economic utilitarianism-led policies, or even blindly copying British and American educational methods, ignoring the meaning and task of "internationalization" itself.

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Regardless of political achievements, the salary adjustment mechanism for civil servants has not changed?

The Civil Service Pay Trends Survey Committee released its preliminary results for this year last week. After deducting pay increases, the pay increases for low, medium and high-ranking civil servants can reach 2.04%, 4.55% and 7.26%.

As always, the incident caused social uproar, criticizing the salary increase as being out of touch with reality: First, because of the impact of the fifth wave of the epidemic, the unemployment rate has risen to a new high in ten months, and it is obviously inappropriate for civil servants to “raise wages against the market”; second, because of the salary increase The mechanism has been criticized for a long time. Not only does it not link salary adjustment to individual performance, but it often follows the salary trend of the private market and has a mutual effect with it. In fact, it cannot be changed.

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The Civil Service Pay Trends Survey Committee released its preliminary results for this year last week, showing that the pay increases for low-, medium- and high-ranking civil servants can reach 2.04%, 4.55% and 7.26%.

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China's "closed country"?

The door to reform and opening up cannot be closed easily

Renmin University of China and others have withdrawn from the international university rankings, the National Immigration Administration has strictly restricted the non-essential outbound activities of Chinese citizens, the 2023 Asian Cup will be held in another place, and some provinces and cities will shut down international calls, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan by default... Several things have caused some discussion on the Internet, and overseas public opinion has made various interpretations of this. Many commentators interpret these adjustments or regulatory actions as actively decoupling from the world, and some even believe that China is starting to move. The act of shutting down the country.

In fact, is that so?

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In the past period of time, the news that Renmin University of China, Nanjing University, and Lanzhou University have withdrawn from the World University Rankings has caused concern and controversy.

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The North Korean 'lying flat' behind millions of fever cases

Since the first confirmed case of the new coronavirus was reported on May 12, the North Korean epidemic has recently been on the rise.

In just a few days, the number of new cases in a single day soared from more than 10,000 to nearly 400,000, and remained at a high of six figures.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held an emergency response meeting in the early morning of May 12 and decided to raise the level of epidemic prevention and control to the highest level.

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea held two emergency consultation meetings on May 14 and 15.

"The spread of the vicious epidemic has been a major turmoil since the founding of our country," North Korea's KCNA quoted Kim Jong-un as saying at the meeting. Kim Jong-un ordered the deployment of the People's Army last Sunday (May 15) to ensure a stable supply of new crown medicines.

During this period, Kim Jong-un and various senior officials wore masks when attending meetings or inspecting pharmacies.

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Kim Jong-un and various senior officials wore masks when attending meetings or visiting pharmacies.

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Behind the "Leaving Shanghai Tide": Why do people no longer believe in positive energy?

Last Friday (May 20), a man in Shanghai wounded a neighborhood committee member with a knife because of a "dispute over the issuance of an exit permit."

The comments under this news are all questioning the unclear notification of the case: what caused the dispute?

Why didn't the news report make it clear?

Is it because the people have a need to go out and are blocked, and they are temporarily emotional?

There were more than 3,000 comments in the news media, and the top three comments were, "Is it too much to bear?"

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Whether it was the initial lockdown of Wuhan or today's Shanghai, the specific problems are the same, and individual tragedies continue to unfold.

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The first proof that lunar soil can be planted is not far from space agriculture?

In the middle of this month, scientists in the United States used the lunar soil brought back to Earth by the Apollo moon landing mission to successfully grow plants for the first time.

What are the difficulties faced by planting in space?

As the United States, China, Japan, India and other countries are closely deploying manned moon landings, does this experimental result indicate that the colonization of the moon and even Mars is not out of reach?

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American astronaut Gene Cernan takes a sample of lunar soil during the Apollo 17 mission to the moon.

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