The Ministry of Education intends to promote the broad participation of civil society in the running of higher education, such as higher secondary schools, normal schools, and even universities.

However, in the environment of contemporary China, it is quite difficult to run a higher education school, and it is difficult to solve the problem of teachers alone, in order to recruit qualified teachers, many of the teachers of these universities and high schools are foreigners or top talents who have achieved academic success in China, and their salaries are quite high, for example, the Imperial University has to spend more than 600,000 yuan a year on the salary of faculty and staff, and these supports cannot be met by the tuition fees paid by students.

For example, in government-run normal schools, graduates generally have signed employment contracts with the Ministry of Education, and after graduation, they must work as teachers in government-run schools for more than three years, otherwise they will have to pay liquidated damages.

Now, they plan to broaden the scope of normal graduates to no longer be limited to government-run schools, but also to teach in private schools for three years if some private schools are willing to accept and pay part of the liquidated damages on their behalf.

At the same time, the Ministry of Education also intends to relax the tuition standards of private schools, in the past, in order to reflect the fairness of education, the Ministry of Education is to contain all kinds of private schools, especially those high schools are not able to charge students too high tuition, but the shareholders of those private high schools are not stupid, and they dare not charge more tuition, but they charge related fees from other aspects, such as book fees, accommodation fees, food fees, etc.

Basically, it is the same high school, but students who study in Suzhou High School spend more than three times as much as students who study in Shanghai High School.

The Ministry of Education used to turn a blind eye to this, because if the Ministry of Education did not let them collect money, and there was no financial subsidy, these private schools would not be able to sustain themselves at all. A loss of tens of thousands, or more than hundreds of thousands of yuan a year is something that no private higher education school can bear, and although those businessmen and gentry will donate money at the beginning, they will definitely not donate money every year to fill this bottomless pit.

However, the Ministry of Education now intends to raise the fee standard of private schools to more than 50 percent, which is basically a formal recognition of other fees charged by private schools in the past.

And such high tuition fees will definitely make it impossible for children from low- and middle-income families to study. But there are more rich people in the huge China, and I am not afraid that no one will come to study.

As for educational equity, in any era, we should not expect the word fairness, unfair between the poor and the rich, between the genius and the foolish, and unfair between humans and monkeys.

When questioning why the poor can't go to private aristocratic schools when the rich can go to private aristocratic schools?

It is also possible to question why a smart person can go to Peking University, but a fool can't even go to elementary school?

From a human rights point of view, can smart people have more privileges than fools? Shouldn't it be the poor and the rich. Genius and fool, man and woman, human and monkey enjoy the same educational treatment together?

You say people are stupid, people say you don't have money!

Many things in the world are unfair, but these injustices are reflected in different places.

Now for the Empire, what they need is highly educated people, regardless of whether they come from the lower middle class or the upper class.

So considering educational equity is not the first issue for the Department of Education!

In order to support private higher education, the Ministry of Education has not only relaxed the maximum amount of tuition fees. At the same time, he also persuaded the empire to introduce preferential policies for education, such as providing land for the construction of schools. Provide some other necessary administrative support, etc.

The plan of the Minister of Education, Jiang Daoquan, is quite large, and the investment required is even greater!

At the first Imperial Education Council, many ministers in the Cabinet were at loggerheads.

At another cabinet meeting three days later, there were more people supporting the Ministry of Education's proposal, and it was obvious that Jiang Daoquan had not been idle in the past two days, and had done a lot of persuasion work with other cabinet ministers. It may even be that some political interests have been promised or ceded.

However, these are the interests of the subordinate courtiers, Lin Zhe is the same as the usual imperial meeting, most of the time he only listens and does not speak, and when the cabinet argues with the result, he thinks he can approve it. If you don't think you can't, you can dismiss the cabinet and let them continue the discussion and come up with a workable plan.

At the third meeting of the Imperial Cabinet, Jiang Daoquan once again submitted a more detailed, even specific plan for the establishment of two universities, and a number of other reform plans for higher normal schools, and the plan also showed that the Ministry of Education has reached a cooperation agreement with more than 20 large domestic enterprises such as Shanghai and Dangtu, led by the Ministry of Education, and these enterprises contributed money and personnel to prepare for the establishment of an industrial and commercial school larger than the Shanghai Industrial and Commercial School.

The school is initially named Shanghai University, and its disciplines are mainly administrative disciplines such as enterprise management and financial management, as well as highly targeted science and engineering disciplines such as mechanical manufacturing.

The biggest difference with Shanghai Industrial and Commercial School is that they will not only train students for various enterprises, but also open enrollment to the public, and do not limit the employment freedom of these free students, of course, the tuition fees of these free students will be very expensive.

This plan of Shanghai University has undoubtedly become a powerful bargaining chip for Jiang Daoquan, this school will become the first private university within the empire, and more importantly, so many enterprises behind it are all funders, each flat down as long as they support tens of thousands of yuan, they can easily raise more than one million yuan of pre-school funds, and at the same time, these enterprises will also send their own technical personnel to teach, which is much more convenient than directly hiring professional professors abroad. Moreover, a considerable number of high-level technical personnel belonging to these enterprises are also foreigners recruited from abroad.

Their level is not much worse than those foreign professors hired by Imperial University and Jiangnan University.

Although this Shanghai University must have trained the commission trainees of major enterprises in the early stage, the proportion of self-financed students will definitely be quite large when the scale comes up.

In any case, Jiang Daoquan's move is tantamount to letting the empire pick up a university for nothing, saving at least two or three million yuan for the empire's education development funds.

In the face of Jiang Daoquan's series of education proposals, in the end, the cabinet passed it with weak support and officially submitted it to Lin Zhe.

Although Lin Zhe rarely spoke during the three meetings, he also clearly expressed his opinion, that education is the foundation of the development of the empire.

This sentence is also the reason why many cabinet officials support Jiang Daoquan's plan.

Now that the cabinet has preliminarily unified its voice, Lin Zhe has officially signed the education bill.

In the next five years, the plan will build at least two comprehensive universities, five three-year higher normal schools, and 35 higher secondary schools.

At the same time, it is also planned to further promote non-governmental education, requiring the establishment of a private comprehensive university, 10 normal schools, and 10 higher middle schools within five years.

The plan further regulates and guides private enlightenment education, and all kinds of private enlightenment schools must be registered and can be converted into primary schools after approval.

The original prefectural elementary school was changed to a higher elementary school!

The prefectural middle school was changed to a junior high school!

Further improve the allocation of middle schools and primary schools, and do not impose or restrict one primary school in one county or one middle school in one government. In areas with a large population, a relatively good style of writing, and a relatively high economic level, the proportion of primary and secondary schools should be appropriately increased.

For example, in some prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River, how can one higher primary school and one junior high school be enough, and a county must have at least three or five higher primary schools, and a prefecture must have at least three primary schools or more to meet the survival needs of a large number of students.

In some remote places, affected by various factors, there are not so many schools in higher primary schools and junior high schools, and even one higher primary school in two counties or a primary school in the state capital can be used to reduce the cost of running a school.

At the same time, it regulates the enrollment of young students at all levels and the school system.

It is stipulated that the age of admission to primary schools is before the age of 10, and those who are beyond the age are not allowed to apply for the examination, and there is no limit to the minimum age for the time being, and prodigies can also apply for the examination at the age of one. The duration of the entire primary school is four years.

To apply for the higher primary school must be a fresh graduate of the primary school or the previous year, no longer accept social candidates, if the previous candidates are over 15 years old, they are not allowed to continue to apply for the examination, the school system of the higher primary school is three years.

Prefectural-level junior high schools are recruited from among the graduates of higher primary schools and have a duration of three years.

Graduates of the primary secondary school can apply for the higher secondary school or the primary normal school, where the duration of the higher secondary school is three years, and the duration of the primary normal school is one year.

Graduates of higher secondary schools can report to the university or apply for the Higher Normal School.

The duration of study is four years at the university and three years at the Higher Normal School.

This plan was not only a plan for the expansion of education, but also a plan for the establishment of the education system of the empire once and for all.

If this plan is carried out, in five years the empire will not only have more schools, but more importantly, it will have a complete and healthy modern education system.

And this education system is what Jiang Daoquan wants!

After all, for him, the Minister of Education, opening a few schools is not a political achievement at all, let alone making him famous in history, and Jiang Daoquan is also an ambitious person, if he wants to gain more political prestige, then he can only do, and it is one thing that must be done, that is, to completely establish and improve the education system of the empire in his hands. (To be continued.) )