Through the wealth life

Chapter 1308 Flooding of Colleges and Universities
Li Guangyu held a meeting here about the 1991 Year of the Goat New Year's Gala, and the people who made trouble for him did not stop.

Not long after returning to the office at Wheelock Building, Gan Qin came in to report to him that Virgin Atlantic, Tian Yi'an, Li Pengfei, Xin Mengjie and others jointly injected HK$20 billion to establish Kowloon Airlines, with Hong Kong International Airport as the main base. The company is also the third airline company to establish a base at Xiangjiang International Airport after Xiangjiang Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways.

The airline's main route will be the Commonwealth route, mainly based on London, South Africa, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney, Melbourne, Wellington, Vancouver and other cities.

At present, the company has just announced that the investment is not much. With 20 billion Hong Kong dollars, it can buy 5 Airbus A330s. Whether it is the current Hong Kong Airlines or Cathay Pacific Airways, they can crush Kowloon Airlines.

You should know that by the end of 1990, Xiangjiang Airlines owned 365 civil passenger planes and 30 cargo planes.

Cathay Pacific Airways has developed 120 passenger planes and 10 cargo planes after years of development and the Hongkong Consortium's capital injection.

The aircraft in the hands of the two companies are mainly Airbus A320 and A330. This year Xiangjiang Airlines plans to order ten Airbus A340, mainly for ultra-long-range routes.

However, the establishment of this company is a challenge to Xiangjiang Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways. The Xiangjiang Airlines market is basically in the hands of Xiangjiang Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways. The establishment of Kowloon Airlines is obviously to grab the market.

Currently in England, Xiangjiang Airlines and Virgin Atlantic are one of the biggest opponents. I didn't expect that the other party would come to Xiangjiang to make trouble for him.

Since Virgin Atlantic is a British airline, and Tian Yi'an, Li Pengfei, Xin Mengjie and others are now very close to Patten, they will not encounter any difficulties in the route, and will try to choose a good time slot for the flight time. At that time, it will definitely have an impact on Xiangjiang Airlines and Cathay Pacific.

Not to mention the airline, it's just that this is not a troublesome thing for Li Guangyu now.

Perhaps it started with Youde. Every governor was addicted to building higher schools. Patten also came up with a new plan this time. Hong Kong Baptist College will upgrade Hong Kong Baptist University and officially become a higher university capable of awarding degrees. The tenth private higher education school in Hong Kong.

At the same time, Lingnan College has also become a public institution of higher learning that can confer degrees in Xiangjiang, and officially changed its name to Lingnan University, becoming the ninth public institution of higher learning in Xiangjiang.

At the same time, the financial group headed by the two major banks of HSBC and Hang Seng passed the approval of Patten and the Xiangjiang government, and changed the name of the Hang Seng Business Academy to Hong Kong Hang Seng University. It focuses on finance, management, economics and other majors, and has become the No. 11 private institution of higher learning in Xiangjiang .

In addition, the Xiangjiang government officially upgraded the Xiangjiang Academy for Performing Arts established in 84 to a university. The higher education institution that awarded the degree was renamed Xiangjiang University for Performing Arts.

This time Patten is different from the previous governors. This time the government does not need to spend too much money, nor does it need to take too much land to build new campuses. All of them are expansions on the existing colleges, which used to be post-secondary. The school cannot award degrees.

Now four colleges have been upgraded at one time, bringing the number of colleges and universities that Xiangjiang can award degrees to 21, making Xiangjiang more abundant in degrees.

Think back to the early 80s. At that time, only Hong Kong University and Hong Kong Chinese University were able to award degrees in Hong Kong. The others were only post-secondary colleges and were not eligible to award degrees.

Since 84, the degree-granting schools in Xiangjiang have expanded rapidly, reaching 21 in just a few years. I don't know how the governors did public relations.

Don’t think it’s easy for Hong Kong to establish a degree-granting university. The degree in this area must be recognized by the British and the United States to be considered a real university. If the university degree is not recognized by the Commonwealth and the United States, such a A school cannot be called a university at all.

Li Guangyu and his private Nine Schools have also carried out public relations. Now the degrees of the Nine Schools are not only recognized by Hong Kong Island, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, but also by the Commonwealth of Nations, the European Community, and the United States.

Of course, some majors have some problems in some countries, and the other party may not buy it.

At present, there is no problem in the Commonwealth of Nations. The establishment and upgrading of universities here in Xiangjiang is reviewed by relevant institutions in Hong Kong and England, so degrees from Xiangjiang can be recognized in all member states of the Commonwealth.

It's just that Hong Kong's higher education has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years, and there have been many problems in the quality of education. Even the leading Hong Kong University and Hong Kong Chinese University have also declined in the world rankings in recent years.

The main reason is that major colleges and universities are poaching people from two universities. One university does not poach many people, but the accumulation is dozens of elite backbones, which is enough to hurt the two universities.

Especially private universities are basically rich owners who spend money directly to poach outstanding talents to their own schools.

For the four universities that have been upgraded this time, let’s not talk about the two public ones, and let’s not deal with the two private ones. The Hang Seng University was created by HSBC, Standard Chartered and Hang Seng Bank. Now Li Guangyu has a good relationship with them. River water is neither good nor bad, and there is competition among them, but the competition is not great.

As for Hong Kong Baptist University, this school is currently implementing an all-English education, and all classes are taught in English. It is not the same as Li Guangyu's side.

As for the University of Performing Arts, it was obviously for Li Guangyu's School of Film and Television, the School of Music, and the University of Communication, and it was likely to serve the other three channels.

Now there are 21 colleges and universities under the law, and 12 schools teach in English. Only Li Guangyu's 9 schools teach in Cantonese, and the textbooks are Chinese characters. The other party has suppressed Li Guangyu's [-] schools.

This aspect is still very important. After all, once the influence is weak, it will be difficult to reverse the current situation.

Li Guangyu said to Gan Qin: "You arrange a time, let the senior management of our nine schools sit together and talk about the development of our major universities, at least we can't lag behind the top ten public schools in terms of rankings, and we also have to recruit students. Make a plan."

In fact, the worst thing is that since John Major took office, the government has given very little funding to Li Guangyu and his nine schools for education, and these schools are all supported by Li Guangyu and others.

Now that there are more and more colleges and universities, the amount of Xiangjiang education funding is relatively fixed, and the annual increase is so much that there will be no extra funds. This time, four more universities will come to them, and they will receive even less government funding.

Gan Qin also knew the difficulties in the development of the Nine Schools over the years. The reason for the lack of funding was not that John Major was specifically targeting Li Guangyu, but was targeting the teaching system of the Nine Schools. What Jie didn't like, England didn't like it either.

Even John Major and the government told Li Guangyu veiledly that as long as the Nine Schools and Xiangjiang University implement the same teaching system, the government will not treat them differently. It is a pity that Li Guangyu ignored it here and still insisted on the current situation. model teaching.

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(End of this chapter)