The fraudulent running of Dalian Translation Institute has sounded the alarm for private education.
Special correspondent of Social Watch Weekly Xie Chuan
As we all know, China's "fake big sky" has spread to all fields of society, and the education sector has not been spared, which is even more malodorous. Fake diplomas, fake academic qualifications, fake professors and fake papers are common and toxic. What's more, there are fake schools and fake principals. They cheat the world and steal fame, and blatantly deceive and hurt hundreds of students and parents. Today, we can't help but say that there have been serious problems in China's education management system, which has created opportunities for lawless people and greedy people. In particular, they take advantage of the institutional defects and loopholes in the industrialization of education, ignore the objective laws of education itself, disregard the minimum moral standards, and boldly go around. By means of media quarrels and bribery, they resort to deceit, wanton deception and shameless accumulation of money, which seriously poisons the holy land of teaching and educating people and seriously infringes on the foundation of national sustainable development in the future. Therefore, only by thoroughly exposing and mercilessly criticizing it can we arouse the attention of the whole society, awaken the public's vigilance, and stop the breeding of cancer in the fake space and make waves. Let's make the ugly behavior of Dalian Translation Institute public now.
● Cleverly change the signboard, talk nonsense, steal the column and recruit students.
On this so-called "Dalian Translation Institute" website, first of all, I introduce myself as an ordinary institution of higher learning approved by the Liaoning provincial government and put on record by the Ministry of Education, with the qualification of independently issuing academic diplomas. Put on a fake hat for yourself from the beginning. The author consulted the archives of Liaoning provincial government and failed to find the relevant approval documents. Finally, he let the relevant personnel know that it was not approved by the Liaoning provincial government, and it was impossible to put it on the record stage of the Ministry of Education, let alone what colleges and universities it was. In fact, its full name is Dalian Translation Institute. The so-called junior college, also called vocational school two years ago, is only a local private vocational secondary school approved by the Liaoning Provincial Department of Education.
However, the words "major" or "occupation" are always omitted in its enrollment brochures and various publicity advertisements. In this way, this incomplete name seems to become grandiose. Hanging over the aura of Dalian, a this beautiful city; It also highlights "translation" and "academy", packaging itself with orthodox appearance and fashionable taste. Because of the close relationship between "translation" and "foreign language", it is easy to confuse it with dalian university of foreign languages, which leads to the confusion between true and false. In recent years, many candidates who yearned for studying in Dalian mistakenly thought it was Dalian International Studies University or its branch school, and finally shouted. For this reason, Dalian Foreign Studies University has suffered a lot of grievances.
As a matter of fact, Dalian Translation Institute, which is ostentatious in Dalian, is only a private vocational school at best, and its real situation is not as boasted in its enrollment brochure and touted by some media. What are the "top ten characteristic colleges in China", what are the "universities with the best campus environment" and what are the "national first-class private universities". These all belong to the kind of madness that beneficiaries and beneficiary groups can fabricate out of thin air by paying membership fees or "sponsorship fees". Its essence is to seek fame, fool people and deceive people. This so-called industry appraisal tactic was popular for a while a few years ago, but now it is full of loopholes, ugly and completely unreliable. What's good about a school that doesn't even have its own official name? Why talk about first class? What a joke!
Today, more and more people have realized that those who often claim the title of China or the laurel of China are just a joke of cosmic cigarettes. Anyone who knows this school knows that it is the garbage school with the worst teaching conditions and the highest fees in Liaoning, but it is only touched by Dalian. But what is particularly unreasonable is that the enrollment brochure of this school is impressively printed with photos of Dalian Bihai Mountain Villa, and describes the beautiful environment and architecture there as its new campus, which always takes new students and tourists there for sightseeing year after year. Just like a mirage, deceiving people who don't know the truth with this illusory method can be said to be naked deception.
To be precise, this school has only been homeless for many years and moved many times. Many people call it a guerrilla school. At present, it is also divided into two footholds. One is at the end of a remote road in the industrial zone of Dalian Development Zone. The so-called school building is only transformed from abandoned industrial plants and is currently used as the main campus; The other is to temporarily rent a building that has been idle for many years in the northwest corner of Dalian Free Trade Zone. Teaching facilities are extremely rudimentary and there is a serious shortage of teachers. However, on an artificial boulder at the main entrance of the main campus, the six characters "cradle of translators" are clearly defined and bright red, which seems to show the world that this is a paradise for training translators. On the edge of the narrow courtyard wall, a row of publicity windows was erected, which were inlaid with many large-scale color photos, most of which were photos of school bosses shaking hands with celebrities from all walks of life, showing a kind of pretentious extraordinary tolerance. I don't know what these photos have to do with running a school, but I can't help but remind people of this idiom, and its ulterior motives can be seen.
● Charge fees for serious violations, and collect students' money through closed management.
According to the regulations of the Ministry of Education, the tuition fee of such private schools should not exceed 6,000 yuan per year, but it has been raised to 8,000 yuan without authorization, and some students are required to pay tuition fees for two or three years at a time. The accommodation fee is charged 1.200 yuan every year, and the meal fee is charged in advance every half semester 1.500 yuan, which means you have to pay before eating. Students and parents are very angry at such unreasonable charges. Because the accommodation here is really bad, 8 people 1 bedroom, and the bedrooms are simply separated. Several bedrooms share a long window, which is neither soundproof nor warm. The bathroom is at one end of the corridor, narrow and dark; To make matters worse, there is no plug on the wall in the dormitory except the minimum lighting electricity, so the computer can't be used at all. The electrical appliances for students' study and entertainment all use electricity, so they have to spend more money on them. Besides, the standard of food doesn't correspond to the price at all, and the quality and price are high. Students have repeatedly asked for a refund of 1500 yuan's food expenses, but they have been slow to pay back, which is unreasonable.
What students can't stand is that this school implements so-called closed management. Except on weekends and holidays, students are not allowed to go out on their own after class, and they can only leave the school with the approval of the administrator, which limits the freedom of movement of students and seems to treat students as the objects of discipline in the reformatory, which has caused serious harm to their physical and mental health. Although the school is nominally for the safety of students, it is a serious violation of the law to restrict personal freedom. Among them, the school's ingenuity is hidden.
The real purpose of this closed management is to target students' wallets. Forcing thousands of students to spend every day on campus. The prices of all goods and services on campus are monopolized by the boss, and the huge profits he gets from it are even more obvious. For example, the mobile phone battery charges one yuan at a time; A repeater battery charges one yuan at a time; Internet access is two yuan an hour, which is more expensive than the internet cafe outside; Even copying a piece of paper costs a dollar. The students all said angrily that the boss's heart is really black. You know, the operators of hot water rooms, health centers, Internet cafes, bathrooms, canteens and cinemas crowded in this small factory are all seven relatives and six friends of the boss. They are in cahoots, disgusting, just and heartless. They operate without a license, evade taxes and overcharge. Moreover, they are all ashamed and arrogant, never hesitate to sell high prices, and regard students as lambs slaughtered at will. This is outrageous!
However, on the website of this school, the private boss is portrayed as a saint. Let's see how he blows his own horn. Please be prepared for the readers first, and don't spit and stain your clothes. He is a real man-he is a real tough guy-he is a person who loves children-he is an excellent operator-he is a real outstanding person. Can the reader stand it, or don't copy a paragraph? Well, another example is said on the college profile page: this school was rated as "National Student Employment Demonstration Private College" by the National College Student Information Consultation and Employment Guidance Center of the Ministry of Education in 2005. As a leader, Dean Kaidecheng also won the reputation of "Top Ten Outstanding Persons in Private Colleges in China" and "The Most Influential Person in Private Education in China".
Enough! Looking at these kind words in the clouds and fog is really dizzy and disgusting. Although there are many tricks about him and this school on the website, facts speak louder than words. Just from the above exposure, it is enough to send the myth fabricated by this saint to the garbage dump. Those boasting to themselves, regardless of shame, can only become people's jokes after dinner. Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei's "Kidnapping" sketch is a mockery of this fool. However, young people will ask: how can a person like Kai Decheng be successful? On this point, the author will explain and expose it in detail later.
In May, 2005, Dalian Evening News reported that six students from Dalian Translation Institute signed a letter requesting to drop out of school and refund their tuition fees. Finally, Kaidecheng, the legal person of the school, was brought to the Dalian Development Zone Court, and all unreasonable tuition fees were refunded by the judge. It can be seen that today's people's awareness of rights protection, today's young students, no longer tolerate extortion and deception; More and more people have realized that only by uniting and resolutely cracking down on false and ugly phenomena can we better safeguard our own rights and punish those who practice fraud!
● Teaching is like a child's play, misleading children.
We are now walking into the teaching building of this school. In fact, we might as well walk into the workshop of a multi-storey factory building. The corridor is dark. It is said that in order to save electricity, the lights are rarely turned on. This classroom is very special and flat. Tables and chairs are fixed on the ground like machine tools. The desk is long and narrow, and there is a narrow partition under the desktop. Generally, schoolbags should be put in, and some should be put on students' legs to avoid falling to the ground. The chair seat can be tilted, similar to the chairs in the old cinema. This is to accommodate as many students as possible, with an average of 60 seats installed in each classroom. However, because the classroom is flat and long, and the light shines obliquely at a large angle, students can only see the words on one side of the blackboard. To make matters worse, students are not allowed to use the classroom at night on the grounds that the boss has set aside funds to reduce electricity bills.
This so-called "domestic first-class private university" now has more than 4,000 self-taught students and students. At present, there are three majors in English, Japanese and French, as well as so-called second majors in business travel, beauty, business logistics and so on (extra tuition is required). The unified recruitment system lasts for three years, and you can get a junior college diploma after graduation. However, the curriculum and teaching arrangement of these majors are quite irregular, lacking corresponding modern teaching equipment and teachers. However, this "leader" who has never studied a foreign language for a day has repeatedly claimed to train qualified simultaneous interpreters for the country on various occasions, and often proudly simplified the simplified Dalian Translation Institute into a "big translator", which makes people feel boastful and disgusting.
Take the teaching situation of three foreign language majors as an example. The class size is maximized, with about 60 students in each class. Professional teachers adopt a temporary appointment system, and each teacher takes two classes of professional courses. In other words, a teacher is responsible for 120 students' foreign language learning. Each class has two classes every day, including intensive reading, extensive reading and conversation. In a 45-minute class, a quarter of the students should finish the class before answering the questions. In addition, college Chinese teachers and ideological and theoretical teachers should undertake the teaching task of four or five hundred people. What's more, teachers are also required to give vivid lectures and comic books on the blackboard. This teaching theory invented by Cai completely deviates from the seriousness and scientificity of teaching, which not only plays tricks on teachers, but also fools students. It is such a school, such a teaching method, how can we cultivate translation? How can we talk about training any simultaneous interpretation professionals? In recent years, the vast majority of graduates who have come out of here have become ignorant of even the most basic foreign language grammar and can't even speak a decent foreign language. Not to mention wasting a lot of money, but also delaying the students' great youth.
So, what is the intention of this teaching arrangement? It goes without saying that it is to extract money from students as much as possible, to reduce expenditure from teaching funds as much as possible, to make unexpected wealth with black-hearted calculation, and to ignore the regulations of the Ministry of Education! Ignoring conscience and morality is misleading children! This is a great insult and irony to the state's policy of encouraging private education! This is a stain on Dalian's beautiful reputation!
CaDeCheng is a man, why can he succeed?
Many readers will ask this question when they see the above revelations and criticisms: Who is this person? How to make such a school bigger? Now let's learn about this man's true colors and his dark tricks.
This person 1955, from Huangtukan Village, Donggou County, Dandong City, Liaoning Province, has a junior high school education. 1974 was a soldier in the navy of Lushun, Dalian, 19 years old. After 20 years as a soldier, 1994 was discharged with the rank of platoon leader. Because he didn't find a suitable placement, he had to change from a demobilized soldier to an unemployed person. At this time, I was catching up with the brother of one of his fellow villagers as a leader in Dalian Development Zone Management Committee. At the same time, one of his distant relatives, Li, is the deputy director of the Education Department of Liaoning Province. It is through these two relationships that the former Dalian Translation Vocational and Technical School was established in Dalian Development Zone, and has been affiliated with the technical training school for trade union workers in the Development Zone and Dalian University for Nationalities and other educational institutions.
Objectively speaking, he was honest and kind from the beginning, and he also had the lofty aspirations of middle-aged people, so he got a lot of help and support, especially when he encountered many difficulties and setbacks in starting a business, which was sympathetic. After entering 2000, with the implementation of education industrialization and the rise of private education, and the continuous improvement of Dalian's popularity, it has brought vitality to the development of this struggling private school. For a time, there was an endless stream of scholars who came from net names, which coincided with the right time, the right place and the right people. However, it is in such a good situation that this demobilized soldier from a peasant background abandoned the duty of honesty and kindness of peasants, but instead showed the complacency of nouveau riche and the arrogance of pirates. In less than ten years, as many as 20 of his deputies have left their posts, hundreds of teachers are no longer willing to associate with them after teaching for a few days, and financial personnel are constantly changing. People who came out from there all said that this man was very bad in nature, full of empty talk, lying by nature, ungrateful, sometimes cronyism, sometimes disowning relatives, doing whatever he wanted, deceiving his superiors and deceiving his subordinates, and he was a treacherous and changeable villain, which made people spit on him.
To put it simply, the biggest problem in Kaide City is dishonesty and mercenary. He is good at acting and showing off, and likes to hide people's eyes and ears with false superficial articles. Although he can say that his library is less than 30 thousand volumes, it is 300 thousand volumes; Although he can say that the number of students in the school is more than 4 thousand, it is only more than 8 thousand; Although he can shout out even more amazing astronomical figures and grandiloquence in the so-called "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" compiled by himself, as long as he listens to the students' real feelings and makes a slight distinction in his mind, it will be clear that whether it is the praise of some newspapers or the exit appearance made by CCTV for him, it is just playing the trick of false packaging, which also exposes this person's misconduct. Today, when rats and thieves are rampant, it is undoubtedly him who bribed some media reporters, some relevant personnel of the Liaoning Provincial Department of Education and some relevant personnel of the Dalian Municipal Education Commission by means of bribery. When these people have passed through the intestines and put the red envelopes in their waists, their principles, morality and conscience are left behind, and they lose their righteousness for petty profits and go along with others, making this pretentious school facade more deceptive.
People can't help asking: how did such a poor school get the qualification to accept the unified recruitment? How can it be said to be a "domestic first-class private university"? Why is there no one to manage and supervise? The author noticed that on the website of this school, people from the Education Department of Liaoning Province or other departments came here to "inspect the work" from time to time, and there were photos of Kaidecheng standing in front of the artificial boulder, the cradle of translators. Almost everyone's face is full of satiety and ruddy alcohol, and eggplant is pretending with a smile. Are these people really shaken by this "cradle"? ! To put it mildly, the section chiefs, directors, directors and heads of these departments made oversight and chaotic mistakes intentionally or unintentionally when inspecting, inspecting, investigating and supervising this school! Meanwhile, he was used as a clown. Seriously speaking, it is these people's dereliction of duty, dereliction of duty, inaction, contributed to the run amok of Kaide City, and became his shameful accomplice.