Reborn as King of South America

Chapter 395 Development of Higher Education
Wild geese flew north, ice and snow in Patagonia accumulated year after year, tall trees in the southern subarctic region put on new green clothes one after another, and driven by the rolling years, the new Han Empire was also growing rapidly with its unique posture.

Between 1868 and 1875, in the mainland, the enrollment rate of primary school children was %, the enrollment rate of secondary school students was %, and the enrollment rate of college students was %. (The enrollment rate of colleges and universities includes overseas students)

From 1875 to 1880, the enrollment rate of school-age children in primary schools was %, that in secondary schools was %, and that in colleges and universities was %.

Between 1880 and 1885, the enrollment rate of primary schools for school-age children was %, the enrollment rate of secondary schools for school-age students was %, and the enrollment rate of colleges and universities was %.

Between 1885 and 1889, the enrollment rate of primary schools for school-age children was %, that of secondary schools was %, and that of colleges and universities was %.

After 21 years of continuous development, in terms of national education, more than 90% of local newborns have completed primary education, and the number of people receiving secondary and higher education has also increased year by year at a stable rate.

In the fourteen years before 1882, sending students abroad was the government's main way of training talents in higher education. Chang'an University (Chang'an, formerly the University of Cordoba),

National Medical University (Chang'an), National Nanhua University (Xinjing), Imperial College London (formerly Central Polytechnic University and Rosario University merged), Songjiang University (formerly University of Buenos Aires), Chang'an University of Technology (focused on chemical engineering, most of the chemistry majors in the other five universities were merged into it, focusing on chemical industry! Chemical engineering related disciplines are supplemented,), Army Academy, Naval Academy

A total of five science and engineering colleges, one medical university, and two army and naval academies also send outstanding students overseas through the school's dispatch, adopting a 2+3 joint training model, that is, receiving two years of education in local colleges and universities, and then with the recommendation of the school, continuing to teach three years of overseas education as exchange students.

The 2+3 model means that students have to receive one more year of college education, but they have to put in one more year of school effort. After returning home, more than % of these students will enter national scientific research institutions, state-owned steel joint ventures, electrical and chemical companies, etc. They will serve as assistant researchers, trainee engineers and other high-paying positions.

The remaining 40 percent of students, after government assessment and screening, will enter colleges and universities, secondary schools, government technical management agencies and other institutions to continue to use their professional expertise and make corresponding contributions to national education and administrative construction.

After 1882, with the increasing number of returned overseas students, the school conditions and teaching capacity of secondary and higher education institutions were greatly improved.
In May 1884, the government of Songzhou (Buenos Aires) applied to the Ministry of Education for the establishment of Songzhou State University. In September, after an on-site assessment by the Ministry of Education and internal government review, Songzhou State University was established, located in the capital of Songzhou and the second higher education institution in Songjiang Prefecture directly under the central government. Influenced by the establishment of Songzhou State University, local governments such as Yangzhou, Luozhou, Wuzhou, Jiangzhou, and Huaiyang Prefecture accelerated the pace of establishing local higher education institutions.
By early January 1889, after review by the central government, eleven local colleges and universities, including Wuzhou State University, Yangzhou State University, Luozhou State University, Weizhou State University, Huaiyang University, Xinjing University (different from National Nanhua University, Xinjing University is equivalent to a state university, one level lower than the National Nanhua University renamed from Xinjing University), Yunzhou State University, Jiangzhou State University, Guangzhou State University, Chuzhou State University, and Jinzhou State University, were established and enrolled students. After the university expansion trend,

There are a total of 20 higher education institutions in the country, of which eight old and famous universities such as Chang'an University, Songjiang University, and Army Officers School are key construction universities under the unified management of the Ministry of Education, and education funds are directly allocated by the Ministry of Education and the government's financial department.

Due to their early establishment, the eight old universities have academic exchanges and cooperation experiences with overseas universities at multiple levels such as teachers and students. Compared with ordinary state colleges, they have received more abundant educational funds. At the same time, the quality of their teaching staff and students is also much higher than that of ordinary state colleges.

Higher education is different from ordinary primary education and secondary education. It is limited by the quality of the teaching staff and students. Even by 1889, the enrollment rate of colleges and universities for eight old famous universities and twelve state colleges that were established later had only slowly increased to %. This data means that out of every young people of school age, an average of only people have the opportunity to enter colleges and universities and receive university education.

You should know that in early 1889, the oldest of the first generation of locally born newborns was already years old. Among the young people of this age, the number of locally born students accounted for nearly a quarter. Most of the locally born young people of this age received primary education, and more than half received secondary education. The vast majority failed to pass the college entrance examination, which reflects the scarcity of higher education from another aspect. If we want to obtain high-quality college graduates, it is far from enough to rely on only ten or twenty years of development.

The preciousness of receiving higher education, especially the improved social status brought by entering the eight old universities, has attracted a large number of young students who are interested in learning scientific and technological knowledge. They either study hard in their local state capitals and then participate in the national college entrance examination, or they achieve relatively good results in the college entrance examination and have confidence in their own abilities, and then independently participate in the special science and engineering entrance examinations organized by the eight old universities.

Although the admission rate of colleges and universities, which are widely watched by local citizens, cannot be compared with the proportion of Jinshi admitted through the imperial examination, once you enter a college and university, you can get a high social status job after graduating from the college after four years of study. This still makes ordinary Chinese people, who are deeply influenced by the traditional concept that everything else is inferior except for studying, regard studying and going to college as the most promising way.

In January 1889, the latest population statistics were released, and the local population reached 1 million.
Correspondingly, the number of new students in local higher education institutions also reached 2.6.

The 2.6 college freshmen, spread over the vast country, only account for 2.6% of the total population. Compared with the large number of high-end technical talents needed for comprehensive industrialization, the gap is still very large. However, the freshmen are, after all, talents trained by local colleges and universities themselves. With perseverance, for ten, twenty, thirty, or fifty years, without interruption, the high-end technical talents trained in the country may have the opportunity to compete with those of Britain, Germany, the United States, and France.

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