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Withdrawing from the Board of Education is not withdrawing from the federal government, and it is not really withdrawing, it is a gesture of how much the federal government of Southern Africa attaches importance to the University of Nyasaland, and as long as the members of the Board of Education don't go crazy en masse, then they know what to do next.
Sure enough, it is said that the British Education Commission has begun to start the evaluation of the University of Nyasaland in the past few days, which is also a procedure, and it is estimated that in a few days, the British Education Commission will issue an announcement, and people will not necessarily come to Nyasaland.
So Douglas is in a very good mood, and everyone is particularly pleasing to the eye at this time.
"The students in this batch have not received a full university education, eighteen months is too short, in fact, many of the students in this group are of very good quality, if it takes longer, they should have greater achievements in the future." Douglas still regrets that the University of Nyasaland only started large-scale enrollment last year, and the current graduates are actually short-term training courses and have not received a full university education.
In this way, there is indeed a reason why the British Board of Education does not recognize the qualifications of the University of Nyasaland, but the British Board of Education is wrong in not taking into account the specific situation in southern Africa.
"It doesn't matter, even if these graduates go into the workforce, they can continue to study as long as they want, the talent gap in the state government is too big, and this problem is imminent." Anton also has no choice, and if possible, Anton is not willing to use this way of pulling out seedlings to help grow.
"It's true, the cultural atmosphere in Nyasaland is still very good, and the state government has done a great job of that!" Douglas sighed heartily.
"It's not the state government's work, it's something the Lord has always insisted on." Anton does not dare to be greedy for credit, and it is indeed because Roque attaches great importance to the cultural atmosphere in Nyasaland that it is so good.
Roque has always attached great importance to Nyasaland's cultural causes, and now all towns and cities in Nyasaland have libraries, and Little Rock, with a population of less than 70,000, has four libraries, the largest of which is a state library with nearly 300,000 volumes, which is second to none in the whole of southern Africa.
300,000 volumes sounds like a lot, but it is still far from Roque's requirements, but this problem is urgent, it is a process of accumulation, and now the people around Roque know that Roque attaches great importance to the library, so there are a lot of people who donate books to the library, such as Abu and Douglas, old professors like Abu and Douglas, a donation is thousands of copies, Ida and Christian If they have the opportunity to go to Europe, they will often purchase a lot of books to bring back, so the development of the library is still very fast.
In addition to the library, there are also many museums in Nyasaland, and there are too many cultural relics left from the Qing Dynasty in recent years, Britain and France are the culprits, and most of the British and French people do not know how to appreciate the traditional culture and art of the East, so the cultural relics from the East cannot be sold at all, and there is almost no market.
In fact, it is not only the oriental cultural relics, there is a saying in the collection industry called the prosperous era of antique troubled gold, this sentence is also applicable in Europe, in the case of the arms race, many people know that the arms race is likely to end with a big war in the future, so the European cultural relics market in recent years is very sluggish, and the result is that Xiao Si has also picked up a lot of leaks.
Xiao Si is now following in the footsteps of Roque, and whatever Roque does, Xiao Si will follow, so Little Rock now also has a Cecil Rhodes Museum, which is dedicated to collecting European antiquities.
By the time Sidney Milner came to see Anton, Anton and Douglas had already begun to discuss the need for a medical school to further expand the University of Nyasaland.
The main problem is that Johannesburg already has a medical school, and if another medical school is established, it will inevitably have an impact on the Johannesburg medical school, which may even affect the relationship between Nyasaland and the Transvaal, which will not be worth the cost.
"It doesn't matter, I'll coordinate this matter, the medical school now has only more than 2,000 students, and the speed of training doctors is far from meeting the needs of southern Africa, the Ministry of Health is referring to the model of Ziwei Hospital, preparing to set up large general hospitals in all major cities in southern Africa, and the talent gap in medicine in the future is also very large, and even if the scale of the Johannesburg Medical School is quadrupled, it will be difficult to meet the needs of southern Africa." Sidney Milner was able to find the entry point, and it was indeed more convenient for him as the first secretary to coordinate the matter.
At the moment of 1908, doctors in southern Africa were scarcer than the lions on the African savannah, before the establishment of the federal government of southern Africa, there were less than 100 doctors in the entire Cape, and there was no large-scale hospital.
Roque established Ziwei Hospital to serve the growing number of pregnant women in Johannesburg.
Now Ziwei Hospital has developed into a large general hospital with more than 200 medical staff and nearly 1,000 beds, but this scale is still not enough for Johannesburg, so the medical talent gap in southern Africa is also very large, and the situation is even more serious than that of government agencies.
The Minister of Health of the Federal Government is the former Cape Health Minister Derek Gibson, and after inspecting the model of Ziwei Hospital, Derek Gibson is very much in favor of the model of Ziwei Hospital, and is ready to set up large general hospitals in all the major cities of southern Africa to provide better medical services to residents.
This is also a big project, it requires not only a huge amount of money, but also enough medical staff, the current scale of Ziwei Hospital, a hospital needs more than 200 medical staff, dozens of cities in southern Africa, with the current speed of training talents at the Johannesburg Medical School, can not meet the needs of southern Africa in ten years.
And this is just one hospital, and there can't be only one hospital in a city, and Johannesburg and Pretoria have already booked graduates from Johannesburg Medical School within five years in advance, so it is imperative to establish more medical schools.
In fact, many places have already begun to take action, such as the establishment of the Rhodes School of Medicine and the University of Rhodes in Salisbury, the Cape is also preparing to expand the size of the Cape of Good Hope University to the level of the University of Nyasaland, and even Louis Botha and Jan Smuts are preparing to establish similar institutions of higher learning in Bloemfontein.
It's a good thing to want to invest in education, but compared with the University of Nyasaland, only the Rhodes Medical College and Rhodes University established by Xiao Si are making good progress, and the plans of Cape and Orange are still on paper and have no ability to implement them, and even the Rhodes Medical College and Rhodes University established by Xiao Si also need the support of the University of Nyasaland to barely maintain their operations.
A university and a private secondary school are two different things, and Roque dared to prepare for the University of Nyasaland in Nyasaland on the premise of the great success of Ziwei College.
Roque has invested millions of pounds in the preparation of the University of Nyasaland, not to mention whether the Cape and Orange can come up with this money, and even if they can squeeze out of the tight finances, they will have to face a lot of problems.
One of the biggest problems is undoubtedly the quality of teachers.
College and middle school are two different things, and those who can teach in college must at least graduate from college and have excellent grades.
In the current situation in southern Africa, there are very few people who have gone to university, and there are not so many experts and professors at all.
The reason why the University of Nyasaland has a strong faculty is mainly due to the demonstration effect of Abu and Douglas's tireless digging of the wall, and by the way, the economic downturn in Europe in recent years, which has attracted some people to work at the University of Nyasaland.
In other words, those lecturers in European universities, those who are willing to work in southern Africa, have been poached by the University of Nyasaland in advance, so it is not easy to copy the model of the University of Nyasaland now.
Otherwise, Xiao Si would not have established the Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Nyasaland.
With such a shortage of talent, Sidney Milner had just told Anton that he wanted to get more graduates, and Anton immediately kicked Douglas.
"You have to ask Principal Douglas for this question, I don't even count it-" Don't look at Sidney Milner's good performance just now, when it was time to turn his face, Anton also turned his face immediately.
"You also know that many students are entrusted to train, and they all have to return to their original units to work, so I, the principal, have no say in the issue of graduate work." Douglas pushed even more crisply.
"I don't care what you do, anyway, you have to squeeze out at least fifty people for me, otherwise you will never want to get the support of Pretoria from the University of Nyasaland." Sidney Milner said cruelly, the first secretary is not powerful, and he is really a follower when he is a secretary.
"Don't be like thisSidney, go to Mr. Rudolf Diesel, this time the graduate, the car factory has the most people, he will definitely be able to squeeze out there-" Anton advised.
"Car factory! Hehe, are you asking me to lead a group of engineers to the secretariat to draw drawings? "Sidney Milner doesn't do it, the car factory must train engineers, let engineers handle the writing work-
It's also a shame that Anton can remember.