Hearing his daughter's question, Mr. Granger smacked his lips and said, "Hal has had a good opportunity recently..."
After listening to Mr. Granger's words, Hermione realized that her Uncle Hal had encountered a hurdle in his life. If he could overcome it, he would be extremely rewarded.
Hal Hunter graduated from the Department of Archeology of Oxford University. However, after receiving his doctorate there, he did not accept a teaching position at Oxford University, nor did he go to Cambridge University, which competes with Oxford University for the world's professional ranking of archeology.
He returned to Sheffield, Yorkshire, and took a teaching position in archeology at the University of Sheffield.
The Archeology Department of the University of Sheffield cannot be compared with Oxford and Cambridge in the world's professional rankings. It has been ranked in the top ten all year round, which can be said to be quite "the enemy".
The top scholars do not necessarily go to the top universities. For example, a genius with an IQ of 187, a PH.D. at the age of 15, a Master of Arts, a Doctor of Philosophy and a Doctor of Science chose to stay at Caltech instead of going to Caltech.
MIT or Harvard.
The same goes for Hal Hunter, but his reason is more realistic: schools such as Oxford and Cambridge are not willing to give lifetime contracts, but the University of Sheffield is.
This involves the teacher system structure of British universities. The British university teacher system has two characteristics: diversity and tenure. These two words are very easy to understand. Diversity actually means "chaos"! Some British universities use the American teacher system
, that is, Assistant Professor-Associate Professor-Professor, and some still use the traditional Lecturer system: Lecturer-Senior Lecturer-Associate Professor (Reader)-Professor
Lecturers are divided into two types: A and B. Level B is higher than level A. Hal Hunter started as a level B instructor.
Of course, in fact, regarding the teaching system, the teaching system in all countries in the world is quite complicated. For example, China is divided into management posts, technical posts and logistics posts. Management posts are official ranks, with ten levels in total: stock level (clerk, clerk,
Section member), section level, division level, department level, and ministerial level. There are two levels in each section and department: principal and deputy; technical positions are teaching assistant (junior), lecturer (intermediate), associate professor (deputy senior),
There are three levels of professor (senior), teaching assistant, and lecturer. There are four levels of associate professor and professor. The highest level among professors is academician. There are five levels of logistics positions: junior, intermediate, senior, technician, and senior technician.
"Tenure" refers to tenure, and only very outstanding scholars may get a lifetime contract. Tenure in British universities starts with the lecturer, and Hal Hunter has a tenure contract.
Hal Hunter's life was smooth. He graduated with a doctorate from Oxford and became a tenured lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He led a research group to guide graduate students and occasionally held classes. Within a few years, he was promoted to a graduate student with good teaching and research abilities.
After becoming a senior lecturer, he is now an associate professor and his academic achievements are well-known at home and abroad.
Originally, at his age, he only needed to stay for a while to be steadily promoted to professor. However, recently, an archeology professor at Xie University is retiring. With each turn of events, a professor's seat will soon be vacant.
, which is very attractive to Hal Hunt.
What's more, he found a few fragments of it in a pile of ancient Egyptian documents. Hal Hunter studied these clues and found that they pointed directly to an ancient city buried in the Sahara Desert, which may be the first city of ancient Egypt.
Relics left over from the First Dynasty. To him, this coincidence seemed like providence, which strengthened his confidence in attacking the professor.
Mr. Granger also showed a look of envy. If he could succeed, he would be a tenured professor under the age of forty-five!
"Anyway, let me see what Hal means first and see if he is willing to take you two," Mr. Granger was in a good mood, with a smile on his lips. He decided that if the two little guys were taken
Egypt, he and his wife went to Paris for vacation to have a sweet world for the two of them.
As for his daughter's safety, Mr. Granger is not worried at all. First of all, he believes that his old friend is the best adventurer in the world. Secondly, his daughter and her friend Tom are wizards! What is there to worry about?
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After returning to Granger's house, Mrs. Granger was still working in the clinic. Mr. Granger asked his daughter to go upstairs to pack her luggage while he called his friends.
Tom carried the suitcase and followed Hermione up to the second floor. Hermione trotted happily all the way to her bedroom. She opened the bedroom door and motioned for Tom to go in.
Tom hesitated, but Hermione became impatient.
"Hurry up, won't the box sink if you carry it?" She raised her eyebrows, "Isn't it a little late for Mr. Yodel to start being pretentious now?"
She took Tom into her bedroom. This was the first time that Tom entered Hermione's bedroom. Before, the two of them had only studied together in the study and living room.
He quickly checked out the layout of the bedroom: the room was the same as other rooms, very clean, without many decorations, and the overall color tone was not the common pink, but Ravenclaw blue as the base tone. Entering here, it felt like a...
Feeling calmed down, Hermione opened the box and took out the contents bit by bit.
"If you're not busy, can you come over and help me clean it up?" Hermione said angrily when she saw Tom hung up, "I can't take these windbreakers, boots, etc. to travel to the desert, can I?
"She took out the pair of black knee-high boots that she had worn when she and Tom were walking by the Black Lake from the suitcase. The small leather belt near the ankle came out of the small golden button and hung down from the boots.
side.
"Also, where are you going?" She tucked the small belt back into the buckle and buckled it. "The Sahara Desert is huge. Also, do you know what you should bring with you?"
Tom helped Hermione take her quilt out of another box. Hermione's question made him feel like he was traveling with his friends. Hermione's tone made him feel like he was on this trip.
He plays the role of a hands-off shopkeeper.
"What do you know about Egypt?"
This question stopped Hermione. Although she had read many books, she still had little understanding of this ancient and mysterious country.
“Nasser and the Suez Canal?”
Tom:?!
Hermione's answer surprised Tom very, very much. He thought Hermione would talk about mummies, pyramids, the curse of the Pharaoh, but he didn't expect it to be about Nasser and canals. Hermione really impressed Tom.
Nasser was the first president of the Republic of Egypt and Egypt's tycoon. He took back the Suez Canal from Britain and France by force, directly tearing off the last fig leaf of the two old empires and leading to the disintegration of the two colonial empires.