China is a country of global competition. From a place on the road for one's bike to a place in life for one's person. Here even the draft army is recruited on a competitive basis. No matter how you look at it, it's a billion four hundred million people. And if you don't work or study 24 hours a day, you'll be somewhere at the bottom of that list.
That is why Chinese universities are crowded from 7 a.m. to late at night. This is not because, for example, of the 36,000 students at the Chinese University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou, 30,000 live on campus. Traditionally, young people prepare for classes and labs long before the first bell rings. And self-study after the last one is the norm, not the exception.
This also applies to teachers. No one has cancelled the performance discipline - the main character trait of every Han, but in parallel, the universities have built such a system of quality control of lectures that it is amazing.
The first step is to collect information through questionnaires from graduates and company managers about the usefulness and quality of certain subjects. The feedback system.
The second - an analysis of which courses students are enrolled to get credits (in order to start the next semester must reach a certain number of credits, that is points, they are accrued, including for attending electives), and which are unpopular.
The third is a mandatory invitation to a consulting company to check the quality of the lectures.
The fourth is duplicative, an inspection by the Ministry of Education and Science. By the efforts of teachers-competitors from similar universities.
Fifth, there is the institute of Ombudsmen at universities, whose task is to unexpectedly attend classes and, accordingly, report on what they have seen and heard. There are no "group visits".
Sixth, there is a camera in every classroom, and the dean or vice-rector can monitor in real time the "enthusiasm" of his employee.
The average salary is 150,000-170,000 rubles per month.
There are no untouchables. Even if you graduated magna cum laude from Houston or Colorado School of Mines and passed your teaching exam in China, the rules are the same for everyone.
The penalties for substandard work are obvious and don't embarrass anyone here. First, the person is sent to retraining for three to six months. If it does not help - deprived of a place in the queue to receive a degree, if it does not work, then, oddly enough, not dismissed, but transferred into the administrative staff of some insignificant structural unit. However, it rarely comes to this, the worst thing for the Chinese is the "loss of face," in our interpretation, social status.
But there is another criterion. If a university has more than five percent of graduates who do not work in their field of study, they quickly change both the amount of financing and the rating. Of course, downwards. If a scientific center does not have orders from companies, then its fate, to put it mildly, is unenviable.
At the same time at the head of the university is not one but two people. The party secretary and the rector. The first is a commissar, responsible for ideology and monitoring the implementation of the decrees of the 84 million Communist Party of China. The second is the commissar, in charge of economic activities and overseeing the efficiency of the entire team.
Of course, this is not a formula for success, but only one of its components.
