Chapter 437 School-Enterprise Cooperation

After hanging up the phone on Zhang Youan, Zhou Yan was about to go back to the bathroom and continue brushing his teeth when the phone rang again.

He thought Zhang Youan had something to say, so he picked up the phone and said, "Do you have anything else to do?"

"Huh?" A confused voice came from the other side, "What's going on? Zhou Yan, you must have recognized the wrong person. I am Liu Lin."

"Oh, Principal Liu, I thought it was a friend of mine. He just hung up the phone with me."

"I wonder why you answered so quickly." Liu Lin smiled and then congratulated Zhou Yan, "Congratulations to you. I know everything about yesterday. It's not easy for you to win the second prize."

"The teachers in our school also won many awards this time."

"Well, that's true, but your second prize is the most important. If you have time to come to school today, I have something to tell you."

Zhou Yan looked at the time, "Then I'll go there in the morning?"

"Okay, I don't have anything to do in the morning, so I'm just waiting for you to come."

"I'll be there in half an hour."

"There's no rush, as long as I can see you in the morning."

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After talking to Liu Lin, Zhou Yan quickly washed up, then rushed to school and arrived at Liu Lin's office.

Seeing Zhou Yan coming, Liu Lin, who was working at the desk, stood up with a smile and walked to the edge of the sofa. "Sit down, I'll pour you a cup of tea. What to drink? There's Pu'er and Maofeng."

"You're welcome, principal."

"Then let's take Mao Feng." Liu Lin didn't give Zhou Yan a chance to refuse, and went directly to pour Zhou Yan a cup of tea. "I've heard many people say that the tea in your studio is very good. I don't have good tea here. , I can only treat you briefly."

Zhou Yan took the tea cup with a smile, shook his head and said, "Principal, you are kidding me. I drink tea like a cow chewing peonies. I can't tell whether it's good tea or bad tea. And you can tell that your tea is good just by looking at its color."

Liu Lin said with a smile, "While he said he didn't understand tea, he also said that he knew it was good tea. I have to say all the good things to you. I told you before that we are brothers in the same sect. There’s no need to be so outgoing when we’re together.”

Zhou Yan didn't answer the question and just smiled. He knew that Liu Lin would have something to say later.

As expected, without waiting for Zhou Yan's response, Liu Lin continued, "In the past twenty years, the composition department has been developing very well. In the past few years, the school was worried that the old teachers were gradually retiring, and our department would have a shortage of teachers. But it turns out that we were overly concerned. Nowadays, the faculty of the composition department are developing very well, and the team of young teachers has been very large. After returning to the school, Guo Wenjing and Ye Xiaogang filled a big vacancy.

Zhou Yan's brain was spinning rapidly, thinking about why Liu Lin said this at the beginning. What did he want to say when he called him over today?

But he lacked key information and had no way to understand Liu Lin's thoughts. He could only follow Liu Lin's words and said, "It is true. The faculty of the Composition Department has gradually stabilized in recent years. I have heard some students complain before that in the past two years There are fewer and fewer places to stay in this department, and there is basically no hope for undergraduates.”

"Well, it is indeed much more difficult to stay in school. There have been fewer and fewer teachers going abroad in the past two years. If I remember correctly in our composition department, the last one to go abroad was probably Li Bingyang."

Li Bingyang was the former class teacher of composition in 1988. At that time, he was going to study abroad at the University of Louisiana, so he handed over the job to Jia Guoping, who had just graduated and stayed at the school.

At that time, Zhou Yan, who had just graduated to the 88th grade, came forward to help Jia Guoping do a lot of things because Jia Guoping was too busy. At that time, students privately said that Zhou Yan was actually one of the composing class teachers in the 88th grade.

In fact, after Li Bingyang, there was another person who went abroad, and that was Jia Guoping.

It's just that the situation of Jia Guoping and Li Bingyang is different. When Jia Guoping left, he said that he would return to Yangyin after graduation and return to the composition department to continue teaching.

Jia Guoping's study abroad is more like a school assignment for further study.

Although Liu Lin was not 100% sure that Jia Guoping would come back, since Jia Guoping vowed to come back at that time, Liu Lin did not talk about Jia Guoping and Li Bingyang together.

During the time when Li Bingyang left, the school lost many teachers. From their composition department alone, two young teachers, Li Bingyang and Qu Xiaosong, left.

At that time, the entire composition department was very anxious to retain a few more students, so only Zhou Yan and Jia Guoping were retained in the 1987 undergraduate class.

Later, the department actually wanted to keep Li Tao, but Li Tao himself didn't want to.

Li Tao's thinking is different from that of ordinary people. He himself thinks that he has no ability to be a teacher and lacks a sense of responsibility.

Rather than being a teacher without ethics, it is better not to touch this matter.

It happened that Zhou Yan asked him to go to the studio at that time, and he readily agreed.

"The domestic environment has become a little better in the past two years. Academically speaking, at least there are more ways to make money."

People are very realistic. There are so many people who study abroad. On the one hand, they want to go out to conduct better academic research. On the other hand, they naturally make more money abroad.

Otherwise, why don’t those who went to study abroad come back?

The income gap between domestic and foreign practitioners is really huge.

As the reform deepens, there are more and more opportunities for literary and artistic workers to make money, and naturally some people are willing to come back.

Liu Lin nodded, "So I have always felt that your development direction is very good. Excellent graduates like Li Tao have more paths to choose from. Your studio is now very famous. Last time I attended it in Shanghai During a meeting, when I was chatting with many colleagues, they were very curious about your studio. Principal Jin from Shangyin was particularly interested and asked if he could visit your studio if he had time."

Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows and thought to himself that Liu Lin said so much just to bring out this matter?

"Principal, if you want to take someone to my studio, just tell me anytime and I will make arrangements for you."

Hearing what Zhou Yan said, Liu Lin pursed his lips and smiled. He sighed in his heart that Zhou Yan really didn't look like a young man in his twenties, and his words were impeccable.

If it were someone else, he would probably directly welcome Principal Jin from Shangyin, but Zhou Yan did not mention Shangyin or Principal Jin. Instead, he threw the talking point back to him and gave him the decision-making power. It can be regarded as a statement of position.

"If they really want to go back later, they will really trouble you. In fact, I understand what President Jin and others think. Your studio is developing very well abroad and is a good employment route. Nowadays, various music conservatories They are all considering subdividing their majors with the intention of allowing more students to join the industry after graduation. Film and television scoring is a good direction. They seem to have the idea of ​​establishing a music engineering department and want to open a new major. What do you think about professionals related to music scores?”

"Film and television soundtracks?" Zhou Yan asked.

"Film and television scoring is only one aspect. It mainly cultivates technical talents in sound engineering, music recording, music information collection and editing for radio and television, mass media, and even the Internet."

Zhou Yan glanced at Liu Lin and guessed whether Shangyin's music engineering department wanted to open such a major, or whether Liu Lin wanted to open a related major in the composition department.

After pondering for a moment, Zhou Yan said, "This idea is good, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to implement."

Liu Lin frowned, "How do you say this?"

Zhou Yan organized his language a little, and then said, "One of the first problems faced by opening such a major is the admissions standards."

Liu Lin said unexpectedly, "I thought the first problem we faced was the establishment of professional courses."

"The establishment of professional courses is still coming, and it is closely related to this issue. The first thing to consider is whether students in such majors need to pass the art exam. If they need to pass the art exam, what are the standards for the art exam. Let's first Let’s talk about the situation where art exams are not required. If students do not need art exams to take this major, most students do not have much music foundation before entering the major. Then when the course is opened, the music curriculum cannot be arranged in depth. What ends up happening is that after four or five years of studying in school, students still can’t learn how to make music, and they have to learn more basic music theory and related concepts.”

Liu Lin nodded thoughtfully, "What you said does make sense, but what if I need to pass the art exam like other students?"

"If this is the case, I'm afraid not many people are willing to apply for this major, at least not willing to apply for such majors offered by schools like ours. Compared with our school, Communication University should have more advantages. The directions you just mentioned, principal, In fact, it involves a lot of new technologies, and these contents are the shortcomings of our traditional music school. Let me give you my own example. In order to create new century music such as "Memory of the Forbidden City", I specially found people to spend time. After learning electronic synthesizers, no one in our school can teach them. Electronic synthesizers are only a small part of new technologies. In the future, students may also need to learn programming, film and television technology, digital signal processing and other professional knowledge. ”

Liu Lin was a little surprised when Zhou Yan said it so clearly, "How do you understand these things so well?"

What Zhou Yan just said about digital signal processing and programming was completely in his blind spot of knowledge. He didn't understand why Zhou Yan knew this.

"I prefer to study new things, especially when we make movies, we need to use a lot of new technologies. Continuous technological innovation has always been the development trend of the film and television industry."

"That's why you study New Age music."

"Well, the new century isn't anything new, but apart from traditional music, it's a pretty good attempt." Zhou Yan took a sip of tea and asked seemingly casually, "Then Is there any plan on Yin’s side?”

Liu Lin nodded, "Well, there is already a plan. In fact, the plan is about to be implemented."

"Already about to land?" Zhou Yan was a little surprised. Shangyin moved so fast?

"Yes, their composition department will open a new major next year called 'Music Sound Director'. I have seen the introduction to their new major. There is a lot of training content, and I can't remember too much, because there are many things I I don’t know much about it, I just remember electricity, electroacoustics, digital audio technology, etc.”

Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows. He had to say that Shangyin's concept was quite new and he was very courageous.

The profession of music and sound director can be said to closely follow the development of the times.

But the idea is beautiful, but the reality is skinny.

As Zhou Yan just said, this type of major faces many problems.

These problems may not necessarily have no solutions, but Zhou was sure that given Shangyin's current conditions, it would be impossible for them to solve these problems.

In fact, Shangyin's move was nothing more than trying to cross the river by touching stones.

When the major is actually opened, they will find that traditional music schools like theirs simply do not have the conditions to train music and sound directors.

"Perhaps the leaders of Shangyin have their own considerations."

Liu Lin shook his head, "I originally thought that this direction of Shangyin was not bad, but after listening to your analysis today, I found that Shangyin was not fully prepared, either in practical operations or psychologically. You said I don’t quite understand some things about it, but I’m sure that the people at Shangyin don’t understand much either. In fact, I had originally thought about maybe setting up a similar major in our composition department, but now I have no idea at all. ”

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Actually, I think that if you want to cultivate relevant talents, it is not necessary to open relevant majors. We have several majors in the composition department. If students are interested in recording and audio, they can come to our studio to study. In this department, For students, music theory is definitely no problem. Arranging and production can also be learned in school, and modern technology can be learned in the studio. The equipment in our studio is always updated, and the technology is also constantly updated. This aspect is definitely better than that of school. ”

Liu Lin's eyes lit up, "This is a way. The technology of your studio can indeed make up for the shortcomings of our school. The key is that there is no need to open a new major, and the cost is much lower. However, in what form should the school work with you? What about room cooperation?”

“This is simple, just adopt the school-enterprise cooperation model.”

"School-enterprise cooperation?" Liu Lin was not very familiar with this model.

School-enterprise cooperation is not a new thing. As early as the beginning of the 20th century, with the development of industrialization, school-enterprise cooperation models appeared in Germany and the United States.

Germany is famous for its "dual system". While students learn theoretical knowledge in school, they enter companies for practical skills training.

In the United States, the University of Cincinnati proposed the concept of "cooperative education", and its specific implementation method is similar to the German dual system.

However, in China, the concept of school-enterprise cooperation has just emerged, and it only appears in technical colleges. It is normal for Liu Lin not to understand it.

Zhou Yan explained, “We can allow some willing students to work in our studio. They will learn music-related theoretical knowledge in school and be exposed to relevant technologies while practicing in the studio.” (End of Chapter)