The Austrian businessman's plan is to pull East African students to Austria to work as workers, this contrast is not strange, just like many Filipino maids in the previous life have a university degree, plus East Africa itself has promoted compulsory education at the secondary school level, but the local people can't digest it, and many of them are also engaged in agriculture, so it is also a good choice to work as an industrial worker in Austria.

Middle school students like East Africa, who have academic qualifications, certain cultural literacy, and most importantly speak German, can become high-quality industrial workers with a little training, and the price is definitely lower than that of talents with the same level of education in Austria, and the cost performance is high, so this is very reasonable.

"Mayor Kranis, I would like to ask, do all your cities in East Africa have universal compulsory education in such cities, as Mogadishu does?" The Austrian businessman Turrell was still not convinced of the ability of East Africa to universalize compulsory education at the secondary school level throughout the country.

Because Mogadishu is a small city and the capital of a province in East Africa, it is not surprising that it has a secondary school because it is very different from other cities.

With a population of less than 10,000 people, Mogadishu is a small city, so a secondary school is sufficient.

The first baby boom in eastern East Africa about ten years ago should be about the age when this new generation will go to secondary school in four or five years, and the number of middle school students in East Africa will usher in a qualitative leap.

The city of Mogadishu will not be affected, as the annexation and development of the Northern Province in East Africa took place much later than in the east, and even more so in the interior and south, some later than in Mogadishu.

Even so, there are more than 1.7 million secondary school students in East Africa (about 12 to 17 years old), more than the population of some small countries, and about 300,000 graduate each year.

East Africa absorbs middle school students mainly in several aspects, one is to continue their studies, several local universities can not recruit many people, the number of local college students in the school has not exceeded 10,000 so far, only more than 3,000 people, the school enrollment of a grade is only about 100 people, the whole school is only a few hundred, in addition to 4,000 international students every year, together there are only more than 7,000 people.

This number is not small, you must know that when Germany was unified in 1871, the number of higher education students in the country was only more than 13,000, and by 1880, the number of college students in Germany had only grown to more than 20,000.

This is still stained with the light of East Africa as a German country, otherwise there is no way to send students, such as Germany, Austria, Sweden and other monarchies are important destinations for East African students.

For example, Japan can only send thousands of students to Europe and the United States every year, and the price is not cheap, while the cooperation of students from several countries with friendly relations in East Africa greatly saves the cost and has a large number of places.

The second is the army, the navy is the majority, of which the naval and army military academies, namely the Heichengen Military Academy and the Ferdinand Naval Academy, occupy a certain share, which belongs to the military system.

The third is the factory, the factory absorbs a part, but there is no industrial area like Mogadishu, so there is no relevant demand, ordinary low education, or even no education can complete most of the work, and Dar es Salaam, Nairobi, Mbeya and other industrial cities have a much higher degree of absorption.

Kranis didn't think much about it, but said in response to Terrel's question: "This is natural, compulsory education in East Africa is very popular, and the time is relatively early, although it is not as developed as your Austro-Hungarian Empire, but it is much stronger than those backward areas, basically every East African city has universal compulsory primary and secondary education." ”

The compulsory education in the Austro-Hungarian Empire is more mature than that of East Africa, which is nothing more than Austria, the Czech Republic and other regions, while Hungary is slightly worse and other economically backward regions are even less popular than those in East Africa.

"How many cities in East Africa have universal compulsory education at the secondary school level?"

"Of course, all of them, maybe some remote areas, or our undeveloped areas, are still in the future and universal compulsory education, but many cities that are a little bit old are definitely no problem, and every city that builds a city will immediately build a school, so every city in East Africa has a secondary school."

Kranis also did not know how to explain to Turrell the difference between the administrative cities of East Africa and the cities of Europe, because the cities of East Africa, like the Far Eastern Empire in their previous years, also managed a large number of territories, including towns and villages, while the cities and villages in Europe were clearly divided and distinct.

It is precisely because of this that Kranis does not know how many cities there are in East Africa, but according to European standards, the number must not be less than fifty, after all, there are more than 20 provincial capitals alone, and some provinces are well developed, and the number of cities will be more, such as the central province, the number of cities is six.

Moreover, the administrative divisions of East Africa change from time to time, for example, the Plateau Province includes the former Plateau Province, Kilimanjaro Province, Great Lakes South Province, (former) Hohenzollern Province, and the steppe region of the regional era. So today, there are five cities in the province that have served as provincial capitals or regional capitals.

However, the frequent changes in administrative divisions also indicate that the self-regulation capacity of East African countries is currently in a healthy state, after all, East Africa is a new country, and the territory is constantly expanding, and the original administrative divisions will not keep up with the development of the times.

What Terrell wanted to ask was not this, but the specific number of cities in East Africa, and he could estimate the number of secondary school students in East Africa, but he subconsciously ignored the existence of rural secondary schools in East Africa.

Although I visited Mogadishu City No. 1 Middle School, Mogadishu is a provincial capital and an ancient city, so it is not too surprising for Austrians to have a secondary school.

However, when Kranis said that compulsory education at the secondary school level would be universalized throughout the country, Terrell was not convinced, even after visiting Mogadishu City No. 1 High School.

This is the prejudice of Europeans, although East Africa claims to be a German state, but this does not affect the stereotype of East Africa by traditional German countries such as Germany and Austria, that is, East Africa is a colony, even if it is now larger, it is nothing more than a larger colony.

After all, the top powers like Austria-Hungary did not fully universalize compulsory education at the primary level, so how can a colony in East Africa go one step further and promote compulsory education at the secondary level throughout East Africa?

At least by European standards, secondary schools in East Africa can only be regarded as semi-finished products, and the expenditure on compulsory education at the secondary level in East Africa is not much more than that of compulsory education at the primary school level, which is nothing more than the preparation of textbooks for another five years, and the number of teachers has doubled.

If Kranis knew about Terrell's psychological activities, he would definitely refute it, East Africa is naturally economically inferior to Austria-Hungary, but politically Austria-Hungary may not be much stronger than East Africa.

In the case of compulsory education, economic issues are not entirely taken into account, and at the same time, it is a political performance project, which tests the ability of the national government to allocate resources, and in this respect East Africa is much stronger than the noisy Austro-Hungarian Empire at home.

It is conceivable that if East Africa and Austria-Hungary were mobilized nationally at the same time, East Africa would be better than Austria-Hungary today, both in terms of efficiency and size, because the populations of the two countries were already at the same level.

On the other hand, the Austro-Hungarian Empire has a variety of railway gauges alone, and various telegraph companies are also fighting their own battles, that is, East Africa is too large, which may drag down the operating mechanism of East Africa.

But on the other hand, the land area has given East Africa a great sense of security, and it can effectively use space in exchange for time, which Tsarist Russia must have deeply experienced, that is, it is more difficult for the two countries to build roads and railways than other countries, after all, the amount of work is larger.

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