Chapter 476 Higher Education
The British hope to use Portugal as a pawn to test East Africa. This is reasonable. Portugal’s colonial area is not small, and it happens to be on the left and right sides of East Africa. Therefore, there is an inevitable geographical conflict between East Africa and the Portuguese. In terms of East Africa’s influence on Portugal The two colonies had no idea and no one would believe it.
However, it is really a question whether the British can persuade the Portuguese to use this knife. At least the new governor of Mozambique, Lyford, is a little afraid of East Africa. East Africa does not know the British plan. For East Africa, except for Belgium, which has a good relationship with East Africa, any surrounding country is suspicious.
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1877, Soga City.
King Constantine visited this technological city in East Africa to attend the opening ceremony of the State Agricultural College and the Soga Normal School.
The National Agricultural College was the first university planned in East Africa, and apart from the fact that agriculture was the leading industry in East Africa, there were more agriculturists in East Africa than other scientists, making it easy to piece together.
Soga Normal School is a relatively special school. It is not affiliated with a university, but it is one level higher than East African Middle School. It specializes in training primary and secondary school teachers for East Africa. The source of its teachers is also special. They were trained by East Africa in the Prince of Hechingen. Teacher training type talents, but can barely be classified as higher education level.
Constantine: "Mr. Angelos, I'm glad you can contribute to agricultural education in East Africa!"
"Your Majesty the King, I didn't expect you to be here in person. This is really an honor for me." Angelos was a little flattered.
Constantine said with a smile: "Our East African Kingdom is a country that respects science, so it is the same for scientific researchers."
Angelos was one of the students of Johann Heinrich von Turnen, a famous German agriculturist who was a student of Albrecht Thee. Albrecht Thee is the founder of contemporary agricultural management and is known as the founder of modern agriculture.
Therefore, although Angelos is not famous, his professionalism is definitely sufficient, because his teachers and masters are the top figures in German agricultural science.
In 1804, Albrecht Thee established the first agricultural school in Prussia. Fifteen years later, in 1819, the school was awarded the title of Royal Agricultural University by the Royal Prussian government.
Therefore, as a disciple of Albrecht Thee, it is reasonable for Angelos to establish the first agricultural university in East Africa.
However, compared to the Royal Agricultural University in Prussia, the National Agricultural College in East Africa has a relatively low-key name, a junior college!
However, this is also in line with Ernst’s expectations for East African universities. Universities focus on theoretical level construction, but East Africa has obviously not reached that level. Currently, East Africa can only learn from European and American countries and does not have the basis for extensive theoretical creation.
Moreover, Ernst does not believe that colleges should be inferior to universities. This is a term that was stigmatized by some countries in the past. For example, colleges in Germany and the Soviet Union are very strong.
It is true that the limitations of junior colleges are higher than those of comprehensive universities. After all, it can be seen from the name that they are limited to professional fields. This is the case with the National Agricultural College in East Africa. It is not like the junior colleges in the Far East in its previous life. , a higher education school limited to agricultural majors, is destined to be one of the authorities in the field of agricultural education in East Africa in the future.
This is the same as the Hechingen Military Academy. The Hechingen Military Academy is actually a junior college, but its major is military.
Although comprehensive universities are very good, East Africa should not think about those that are available and not available. Only by cultivating high-level talents can we be able to build the world's top comprehensive universities.
"The National Agricultural College covers an area of more than 3,000 acres, has more than 200 teachers and staff, and currently has a collection of 160,000 books. It has designed a total of 13 majors such as agronomy, animal husbandry, pesticides, and plant pathology. This year, a total of There are more than 700 students.”
"These students are among the top students in East Africa. Perhaps their knowledge reserve ability is inferior to that in Europe, but their learning ability is definitely the best, and they are all one in a million," Constantine said.
As for the top students in East Africa, this small temple in East Africa cannot accommodate them. In 1877, the top two thousand students in the East African college entrance examination were sent to study abroad at public expense in countries such as Germany and Austria in accordance with the needs of East Africa.
The destination for international students in East Africa is very particular. The most important one is that it must be a monarchy. However, this restriction does not matter to East Africa. Excluding those "free" countries, East Africa has quite a lot of options, especially The higher education in Germany and Austria is also at the top level in the world.
In addition to Germany and Austria, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom are all regions that can be chosen in East Africa. However, except for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, the number of international students in other regions is very small. After all, two thousand people are not enough for Germany alone.
It is worth noting that these two thousand international students are not all East African students. Because East Africa currently has its own talent training base overseas, the total number of East African students abroad is about 7,000.
Those East African students who were originally abroad received education from the host country and participated in the admissions examination of the host country's schools, while the overseas students sent from East Africa mainly signed agreements with governments of various countries, including Germany and Austria, as well as East African friendly relations between Sweden and Belgium.
In other words, no matter what their academic performance in East Africa is for these local students, the above three countries have reserved certain quotas for East African students in various universities, which is equivalent to a recommendation.
However, East Africa cannot afford to make a name for itself, so it pays great attention to the selection of international students. In addition to the unified examination, they also need to undergo two re-examinations. At the same time, these students are given two months of training before going abroad.
The training is mainly to correct the etiquette habits of East African students according to the local customs and customs of the host country, so that they can better integrate into the learning environment in the host country.
International students are the face of a country, especially a closed country like East Africa. In addition to Hechingen Foundation employees and government personnel, international students can be said to be the largest group of people in East Africa who have contact with the world. Their quality abroad represents the representative of overseas East African students. First impression of overall quality.
Constantine attended the opening ceremonies of two schools in Soga City, and Ernst was not idle either. In addition to Soga City, the First Town City also planned a national medical college.
This is understandable. To say that the city in East Africa has the highest level of medical care, the capital must be the best. After all, this is the political center of East Africa. Therefore, based on this advantage, the first medical university in East Africa was established in the first town.
Except for the above three schools, there are no other new schools in East Africa this year because there are not many secondary school graduates in East Africa in the past two years.
There are 2,000 overseas students in East Africa, but the three universities in East Africa combined have only more than 1,800 students. The number of international students even exceeds the number of local higher education students. This shows the current level of education in East Africa.
If we really want to roll out university-level education on a large scale, it will take at least ten more years. So now Ernst’s plan is to add one university every two or three years, and then consider building a batch of universities on a large scale after ten years. colleges and universities.
