Higher education is gradually moving away from the narrative of "hard study" – that is, the living conditions of students can be simplified Xi simplified, and instead the focus of education is now beginning to return to specific people, and they have begun to spend a lot of money on improving students' lives.
In the past few days, a news that Jilin University has quietly paid money for thousands of poor students who are going to graduate school has sparked heated discussions on the Internet. On December 16, a graduate student of the school told reporters that the price of the hotel was about to start, and the 500 yuan subsidy issued by the school could just solve the accommodation and transportation expenses during the examination. The school said that a total of nearly 800,000 yuan of postgraduate examination subsidies have been issued to 1,000 postgraduate students whose families are in financial difficulties.
Postgraduate entrance examination subsidy", this term is indeed very fresh, and it also shows the carefulness of the school. It is very common for accommodation fees to rise during the postgraduate entrance examination, and the school considers this and gives some subsidies to students, which can solve the urgent needs of poor students, and also send them a very timely and powerful cheer.
And according to the students, the school has not forgotten about the students who are looking for jobs: Jilin University also gave suits to graduates whose families are in financial difficulties for job interviews. In addition, there is also a hidden meal card subsidy, which is directly paid into the student's first ** middle school, and the student is reminded to check it through text messages. This series of warm measures are very eye-catching.
It is worth noting that similar practices have one thing in common, "quietly making money" and "quietly calling for meal supplements", focusing on protecting students' privacy, silently conveying love, and making the recipients feel very comfortable and warm. In fact, since the university is called the "alma mater" by the students, humanistic care is of course a kind of background color of the university. It is also natural for universities to provide more material support for poor students on the basis of respecting privacy. The family conditions of students vary greatly, but the university strives to level this starting line, lifting each student to roughly the same water level, and also enriching the connotation of "bigness" of the university.
At the same time, people can also see a trend, that is, the school is now more and more concerned about students, and it is becoming more and more direct. Just like the practice of Jilin University, students who are going to graduate school pay money and students who are looking for jobs are given suits, which are very practical and sincere. This actually has a larger background, such as China's fiscal education expenditure, accounting for more than 4% of GDP for 10 consecutive years, which also allows colleges and universities to "spoil students" with sufficient capital.
On the other hand, it is also a change in the concept of education. Think about a few years ago, there was quite a bit of discussion about whether or not to install air conditioning in student dormitories. But today, this has long ceased to be a problem, and not only air conditioning has begun to become the standard, such as Harbin Institute of Technology to build a warm corridor connecting dormitories and teaching facilities, Wuhan University has launched a dormitory that can be shared by husband and wife, Tongji University has even chartered a plane to pick up students to start school, all kinds of fancy "pet students" have begun to appear.
This reflects a deep change in thinking, in which higher education is gradually moving away from a narrative of "hard study" – that is, the living conditions of students can be simplified Xi learning, and instead the focus of education is now beginning to return to specific people, and they have begun to spend a lot of money on improving students' lives.
This idea is also non-utilitarian. It is conceivable that measures such as giving students money for meal cards may not have much effect on improving school rankings, but universities are still willing to pay "real money**", which in itself means that students' lives themselves have begun to occupy an important vision of the school, and schools no longer only focus on rankings, grades and other "visual results".
And that's part of education as well. Just like the ratings of a certain platform university that suddenly exploded some time ago, those schools that received high ratings are almost all because they have given enough care to their students. When schools care about students, they teach what it means to be "people-oriented" and what "higher education" is. And this warm memory is believed to be enough to become a profound lesson in the students' lives, and give them the most natural and deep sense of belonging and pride.
If you think about it carefully, when the graduate school entrance examination subsidy and interview suits begin to appear, it may also mean that the favored students have begun to "roll" to a new height. Of course, the society is also happy to see this kind of "volume", and hopes that the school "scramble" to spoil students can become a basic operation, so that the university can truly become an ideal place to learn Xi with peace of mind, perceive beauty, and gain dignity.
Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News Special Commentator Yi Zhi.