Why Jack Ma donated money to an Australian university

In addition to the personal story mentioned below as the original reason for Mr. Ma's donation to the University of Newcastle, one of the dozens of prestigious universities around the world, it also has to do with Mr. Ma's business and political awareness, usually to carry out industrial or investment in other countries, starting from the education industry is the most popular and remembered, from the point of view of the needs of human emotions, it is also the most meritorious one of these behaviors. Another worthy of praise is the IQ of Ma Sheng and know-how, there is a Western cultural awareness of people know that the West, especially the United Kingdom and the United States of America, most of the top comprehensive ranking of the university are private, the promotion of the capital economy driven by the development of the school, including facilities and equipment as well as teachers of the high-income, etc., it can be said to be a purely market-oriented way of running the school, so it also pays attention to the rankings and other indicators. Australia's more than 40 universities, 99.9% belong to the government's public universities, by the government's annual funding to undertake the education work, and the domestic education model is relatively close to the same, but also do not care about the market indicators and other rankings, after all, there is the government to pay, peace of mind to do a good job of education work and tasks. However, the tuition fee income from overseas students has always been the top ten industries in Australia's income, and it can be said that it is a strong education exporting country. Therefore, the whole system and support for overseas students in Australian universities can be said to be more complete. Back to the university Mr. Ma Yun chose to donate to the University of Newcastle, belongs to the second tier of the Australian government funding amount of city universities, but every year the government's allocation to Newcastle reaches hundreds of millions of Australian dollars, plus foreign students and local students tuition income is also in the hundreds of millions of dollars, Mr. Ma Yun donation of AUD $ 26 million can be a good education fund to help students who need special support, but also for the country to compete for a little bit of light. But if the A$26 million is placed in some government-funded universities, such as the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne, it may not play such a big role. Equivalent to business sponsorship of CCTV and local stations, the amount of money generated by the weight and location of government policy and funding figures proportional to. And then look at the University of Newcastle's professional rankings and comprehensive rankings of the situation, the University of Newcastle's medical profession and construction can be said to be one of the top schools in Australia, Australia's health care system in the doctors and nurses, a number of them are out of this school. In addition, the University of Newcastle's digital media should be the earliest launch of Australia's media specialties, equipment conditions, although not as good as the University of Technology Sydney (Hollywood film industry in the southern hemisphere production base), but also among the top two. The University of Technology Sydney emphasizes the training of late-stage talents, while Newcastle favors the expression of ideology. Although Newcastle belongs to Australia's top ten schools, but because it is not quite the same as the private school self-financing, the promotion and packaging of the market is lacking, including the focus on academic performance and other indicators. From the 06, 07 years of the world's top 100 or so rankings to 18 years Times published fell to the world's top 200 universities, it is estimated that either the Australian government has increased the allocation of investment, or directly did not publish much paper. After all, global university rankings are still mainly dominated by the number of papers published and the rating in applied sciences and industry, and the purely market-oriented operation and public education system may still be not quite the same focus. As the domestic tycoon Jack Ma and Australia to the world tycoon Murdoch, one is the king of e-commerce, the other is the king of media, both in China and Australia, every move received the attention of the people of China and Australia. As in the year 96 years, Phoenix Satellite Television opened when the Australian media tycoon actually invested 49% of the share ratio in such a "silent" Chinese media, is also enough to make people think.