Topic 9 My View on Amalgamation of Universities
Recently there have been many reports of amalgamation of universities. It turns a new page of advanced education in China, and will have far-reaching effects in the forthcoming years.

The biggest benefit, in my eyes, is that the merging often results in a comprehensive university with increased overall strength. To take part in international competitions, we need more universities of this kind. In addition, the integration of staff members will significantly improve the quality of both teaching and research. Finally, reorganization will optimize the disposition of limited resources, which is the symbol of successful educational reform.

Apart from the benefits mentioned above, we should also face several unavoidable challenges. In the first place, the integration process itself will be difficult even painful—many people may need to sacrifice their own interests for the whole university. In the second place, the management of such big universities is not easy at all. What’s the most important, the most successful university is not necessarily the largest one or the one with most students—the key lies in the unique spirit of the university. Only when we deal with these problems successfully can we benefit the most from university amalgamation.

參考翻譯：

我看高校合并

最近出現了許多大學合并的報道。這在中國的高等教育史上翻開了嶄新的一頁，并將對今后產生深遠影響。

在我看來，高校合并的最大好處在于合并之后的高?？傮w實力增強，成為綜合性大學。為了參與國際競爭，我們需要更多的此類大學。此外，工作人員的結合將大大提高教學和科研質量。最后，重組將使得有限的資料得到優化組合，這是教育改革成功的標志。

除了上述優點以外，我們還要面對一些不可避免的挑戰。首先，一體化進程本身將困難重重，甚至是充滿痛苦——為了整所大學，很多人可能需要犧牲自身的利益。其次，管理這么大型的大學絕非易事。最重要的是，最成功的大學并不一定最大的，也不一定是在校學生數量最多的，關鍵在于該大學的獨特精神。只有當我們成功地處理了這些問題，我們才能從大學合并中獲益更多。