Chapter 1582: Colasbourg University (III.)
The Minister of Transport, Matwi Wittgenstein, also actively campaigned for the establishment of the University of Krasbourg, and proposed at a cabinet meeting to make full use of the Far East's relatively abundant talent resources for the establishment of an engineering school, which was unanimously approved by the participants.
Roland had promised Eltaran the establishment of a psionic academy and had promised Duvalin a major in alchemy, all of which had been fulfilled. Regular faculties recruit high school graduates from all over the country, and they can learn from the experience of the college entrance examination on the earth, but majors such as the School of Theology, the Academy of Astrology, and the School of Psychic Energy require candidates to have special talents for spell-casting or manifestation, so they cannot adopt the enrollment method of waiting for the rabbit.
In order to provide a sufficient number of students for the above-mentioned special colleges, Rowland specially instructed Lyudmila and Tonya to add some statistical items during the census to investigate whether the youth in the Far East have mental qualities such as intelligence, perception or charisma, and to register the selected ones, noting down their home addresses and contact information. With these detailed statistics, Roland was able to recruit new students for the Arcane Academy, the Seminary, and the Psionic Academy in the Silver Sky.
According to this statistics, Roland sent an official letter to all registered families, inviting young people of school age who had the talent of casting spells and abilities to come to the capital to take the special entrance examination in the name of the Crown Prince of the Far East and vice president of the University of Krasbourg, and promised to provide travel expenses and living allowance for students and parents from poor families during the examination in Beijing. Those who pass the examination will be the first special enrollment in the history of the Far East, and the Ministry of Education will provide full scholarships to these special students.
Time flies by in the bustling day, and in the blink of an eye, in the blink of an eye, the admissions process at the University of Krasbourg is nearing the end. More than 30,000 candidates from all over the country took the first university entrance examination in the history of the Far East, and only one in 10 candidates were lucky enough to cross the fateful threshold and become the first batch of new students admitted to the University of Krasbourg.
Roland didn't want to make the competition for university admission so cruel, but there was no way, secondary education in the Far East had just started, and the first batch of middle school students came to take the college entrance examination before they graduated.
The Minister of Education, Merlin, and the Minister of Religion, Boris, were adamantly opposed to setting the threshold for universities too low, and if real talents could not be selected, the university campus would become a place for mediocre talents to gild, losing the original purpose of higher education.
Roland did not publicly object to this, choosing to reserve his personal opinion. While Merlin and Boris position universities as "elite education," they argue that public universities should not be reserved for the elite, but rather a place to provide "liberal education."
As far as the heart is concerned, Roland hopes that the University of Krasbourg will lower the threshold and provide more aspiring young people with opportunities to receive higher education, which is the so-called "comprehensive casting of the net and key cultivation".
At present, there is an urgent shortage of college students in the Far East, and the employment situation is completely a seller's market. Most graduates lack the ability to innovate, but the basic skills memorized by rote are solid enough to find a job that suits them. In the future, when the majority of young people have the opportunity to go to university, when the overall quality of the people is markedly improved, the value of university degrees is seriously depreciated, and the number of college students becomes inflated in the job market, it will not be too late to change the education policy and implement elite education that is strict in and strict in and out of the country.
Drawing on experience on Earth, Roland insists that in the current situation, the benefits of universities outweigh the disadvantages. But he finally chose to compromise. The reason is simple: the University of Krasbourg is currently in a greater shortage of teachers than students. Roland has done a lot of work for this purpose, from Beacon Hill to Parnia, from Port Whitegull to the "Land of Greens", every family has searched for talents, and with the greatest sincerity to hire experts and scholars in various fields to teach in Krasbourg, and the other party's requirements are surprisingly consistent - the salary is negotiable, and the quality of students cannot be compromised.
Distinguished scholars are arrogant and willing to contribute to the cause of higher education in the Far East, but they will not tolerate wasting their precious knowledge and energy on "rotten wood" whose heads are not clear. Most of them are required to participate in the college entrance examination, write the test papers themselves, and pass the strict screening before they can be fortunate enough to become their protégés.
This is simply training college students as graduate students!
Roland complained bitterly, but he could only accept it. In any case, let's fool these old guys first, it doesn't matter if there are fewer students, but if you can't recruit professors, some important majors can't be established at all. Between students and teachers, he had to choose to accommodate the latter.
From the end of April to the end of May, Roland traveled everywhere, grinding his tongue and finally completing the construction of the department at the University of Krasbourg. According to his vision, the University of Krasbourg will be a truly comprehensive institution of higher learning, tentatively consisting of nine faculties, each with a number of specializations.
The most mature of the current development is undoubtedly the seminary. The seminary is also the talent base of the Sindra Church, taught by senior pastors, and has trained thousands of young seminarians for the Far East in the past two years, most of whom have successfully passed the revelation ceremony of the "Temple of Destiny" and obtained pastors, and have been sent to various parts of the Far East as resident pastors, providing a steady stream of backbone for Roland's rural governance plan.
The total number of pastors currently registered in Sindra Church is about 2,200, the vast majority of whom have only short-term training qualifications and no more than level 3 priesthood. Patriarch Boris believes that low-level priests are no longer in short supply in the Far East, and the next step of the seminary will be to strengthen the training of elite priests. Generally speaking, a young person who has undergone short-term training and is promoted to a level 1 pastor must undergo at least four years of education in a seminary before he can be promoted to a level 5 pastor upon graduation.
The second key institute created by the University of Krasbourg is the "Faculty of Engineering and Technology", the equivalent of an engineering school on the planet. Roland himself is a liberal arts student, but he also has to admit that in the early stage of industrialization, science and engineering majors contributed more to national construction than liberal arts majors. Under the condition that the investment in education is constrained by the budget, he can only choose to "use good steel on the cutting edge", betray his major without hesitation, and give priority to the allocation of resources to science and engineering majors.
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