Chapter 562 Focus on education

As time passed, Arthur also realized that the economic crisis was not far away.

Compared with external territorial expansion and power expansion, the most important thing at present is to stabilize the order of Australasia and ensure that Australasia can survive this economic crisis unscathed.

You must know that the serious consequences of this economic crisis are no less than that of a super war, and the damage to the economies of various countries is even far greater than that of a world war.

If Arthur remembers correctly, this world economic crisis, which has gone down in history, has set back the economy and industry around the world for decades, returning to the level of the early 20th century.

During the crisis, industrial production in the capitalist world fell by 37.2%, including a 44% decline in the United States and a 14% decline in the United Kingdom.

This is a huge crisis for the great powers around the world, but for Australasia, it is also an opportunity to overtake European countries economically.

The United States was the most severely affected by the economic crisis, with 140,000 companies and 10,000 banks bankrupt.

How exaggerated is this number? The total number of registered companies in Australasia is currently less than 10,000, and the number of banks is less than 100, which is enough to see the serious gap between the United States and Australasia.

As long as Australasia can seize this opportunity, there will be no problem in becoming the second economic power behind the United States, not to mention surpassing the United States.

By then, Australasia will have become the third pole of the world, no less powerful than Britain and the United States, and can truly become a chess player dominating the world, rather than a chess piece dominated by chess players.

How to survive the economic crisis safely?

First of all, the economic crisis is facing a very serious unemployment population.

At this time, it is necessary to formulate relevant stimulating economic policies to ensure that these unemployed people have a certain economic income to ensure the source of income and daily necessities of more families behind these unemployed people.

Secondly, prevention and protection of financial institutions and financial markets should be implemented as early as possible. As long as the losses to financial institutions and the market are not too serious, we can resume work and production faster and restore the economy when and after the economic crisis arrives.

In addition, we should increase assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises to ensure that these small and medium-sized enterprises with weaker foundations can survive the economic crisis and avoid the economic crisis from causing too serious harm to the middle and lower-level enterprises in Australasia.

Arthur has conceived these plans many times in his letter, which also requires the government to respond to various economic crises that have occurred before and make a plan that is sufficient to deal with them.

As long as they are fully prepared, even if the economic crisis does come and sweep Australasia, Arthur and the government will be able to face it calmly and not be in a hurry.

I decided to start farming down-to-earth. After growing steadily for a period of time, I set my sights on education and medical care, which are the most fundamental aspects of national development.

The first is education. Australasia is exploring higher levels of compulsory education to ensure that more people can enjoy the status improvement brought by higher education.

In previous Australasian policies, all citizens of working age were required to receive education from primary school to junior high school, which was also an important means to increase the per capita academic qualifications to junior high school.

However, it is obvious that junior high school education cannot meet the needs of national development. Only by producing more college students and high school students can the country have sufficient talent reserves.

However, the cost and time required to achieve universal high school education are immeasurable.

Therefore, the current high school compulsory education is still in the exploratory stage. Arthur chose a more compromise plan, which is to vigorously develop vocational education.

After nearly 22 years of development, Australasia has achieved certain results in education.

The first is the internationally renowned universities. Australasia has a total of 17 universities established by state governments and municipal governments in addition to schools.

This also means that the total number of universities in Australasia has reached 2, educating more than 13,000 university students.

According to 1 summary data, the government’s annual investment in education was as high as 16% of the total fiscal expenditure in 2031.

Increasing the number and size of universities remains an important topic in Arthur's further plans.

Judging from the current situation in various industries, there is no doubt about the ability of college students produced in Australasia. There are even many college students who have graduated several years ago and have entered the senior management of various industries and become the mainstay of various industries in Australasia.

In particular, a small number of scientific research talents with good talents have joined the research laboratories of their respective universities, and have even been given the opportunity to join the Royal Academy of Sciences.

You know, the Royal Australasian Academy of Sciences currently has less than a thousand scientists, or 772 to be precise.

These 772 people are all top experts who are well-known in Australasia and even world-renowned. In any country, they are worthy of the government's efforts to attract them.

And a considerable number of technical employees educated in technical schools have entered the middle and upper levels of factories and enterprises.

In any era, it is still good to have an ability. Especially in a development context like Australasia, which is very suitable for working as a worker, having a skill to maintain food and clothing is not a problem.

Compared with only 13,000 college graduates each year, Australasia's technical schools are extremely exaggerated, with more than 400,000 people trained each year.

Of course, there are also a large number of immigrants among these people. After all, if immigrants want to find a job in Australasia, it is impossible without learning English and a skill.

For these technical schools, we still need to support them. They not only provide Australasia with a large number of skilled workers, but also serve as institutions for training immigrant skills, which can be said to have made great contributions to the development of Australasia.

However, Arthur also decided to make certain changes to the current education methods.

The first thing that needs to be done is to strengthen the training of the younger generation.

What exactly is being cultivated? The most important thing is to cultivate these younger generations' recognition of the nation of Australasia.

From the time the younger generation of Australasia receives education, they are taught that Australasians are a united people and that they are all glorious Australasians.

When these people grow up, they will naturally regard themselves as Australasians, the original immigrant nation will no longer exist, and Australasia will become a single-ethnic country.

Of course, such changes are very long-term and only a small part has been carried out so far.

However, the results achieved are still good. Under the influence of various industries and education in Australasian society, more than half of the Australasian citizens recognize the national concept of Australasia, and the number is still increasing.

Especially those who were born in Australasia, they have the strongest identification with Australasia and are the most staunchly Australasian.

Even if someone told them at this time that their parents were not Australasian but immigrants from abroad, they would never admit it.

Because compared to their hometown, which they have no impression of, Australasia is their home, the place where they have lived since they were born.

In addition to strengthening the cultivation of national concepts, it is also necessary to deepen the impression of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism and reduce the possibility of participating in revolution in the future.

As the saying goes, the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds. No matter how pure and innocent the white paper is, it is covered with dust that cannot be seen by the naked eye.

The same is true for the country's governance. Although Arthur was able to ensure that most Australasians loved him, there was no guarantee that all Australasians would.

There are always very few people whose brain circuits are not normal, and it is not impossible to resist Arthur's rule.

Just in case, it is enough to make preparations in education in advance to ensure that the vast majority of people are loyal to the emperor and patriotic.

At any time, a revolution that fails to gain popular support will basically be suppressed, not to mention that Arthur also controls the military.

Of course, another very important aspect of education reform is to strengthen education coverage in small cities and villages.

There is no need to worry about the education situation in big cities like Sydney and Melbourne. Even if the government does not focus on these cities, the state and municipal governments where they are located will vigorously develop education.

Especially Sydney, a city with three well-known universities, including the National University of Australasia, the Royal Military College Sydney, and the Royal College, as well as ordinary universities such as the City University of Sydney and the Sydney Academy of Arts. The educational resources should be all in Australasia. The richest in the city.

This is also the reason why some Sydney people are unwilling to move the capital. If the capital is moved, will the National University and the Royal Military College also follow suit? This is what Sydneysiders are most worried about.

If Arthur hadn't promised that even if the university moved its capital, the current school would be retained as a branch campus, I'm afraid Sydneysiders would still be reluctant to move the capital.

After all, education represents the importance attached to a city and its development potential. This is what Sydneysiders are most concerned about.

Of course, Sydney, the second largest city in Australasia, is not far behind.

Four universities, the Royal Military College of Melbourne, Melbourne City University, Melbourne Medical University, and Melbourne University of Biology, also represent Melbourne’s educational resources.

There are many universities gathered in big cities, which also means that there are almost no universities in other small and medium-sized cities except state and provincial capitals.

This is something that Australasia needs to change now. Extending higher education, including high schools, to small and medium-sized cities as much as possible will not only make it easier for Australasians to receive education, but also cover more cities and populations. .

However, it is unrealistic to open universities in small cities. Because no matter how eager a small city is to go to college, there is a limit to the number of college admissions it can provide each year.

Other populations further away will not give priority to enrolling in these universities. Doing so has no benefit except facing high financial losses.

A more compromise solution is to popularize high schools and lower-cost technical schools in small and medium-sized cities as much as possible.

Although it is not as good as a university degree, a high school degree is considered high in Australasia at present, so finding a job is not a problem.

This is not the era of later generations when college students are everywhere. For a country, high school students are considered qualified talents who have received education.

The good news is that the church has also opened some large and small schools in various places and also assumes the responsibility of education.

Although the Australasian Church operates more language schools, it also has corresponding other subjects and is officially recognized.

After all, Australasian Protestantism can be considered Arthur's own people and is under his strict control.

In addition to the educational environment, what currently needs to change is the medical environment.

The changes in the medical environment are not limited to the construction of universities and clinics, but also the strict control of the medical environment to avoid problems such as arbitrary payment and difficulty in seeing a doctor.

This kind of problem exists in any era, especially in an era when capitalism is prevalent. Things controlled by capital can easily deceive people, and even more easily deceive ordinary people.

Fortunately, Arthur controls the largest pharmaceutical group in Australasia and controls most of Australasia's domestic pharmaceutical production.

Under Arthur's order, the Medical Ministry formulated a supervision policy for major hospitals to strictly control the sales prices of drugs and the counterfeit drugs that are popular in the market.

It is not surprising that counterfeit drugs appear. After all, some drugs are indeed very expensive and the cost of counterfeiting is not large, but they can bring huge income. This is something that capitalists simply cannot refuse.

At present, the Ministry of Health has investigated more than 100 cases of counterfeit drugs and sealed more than 20 manufacturers. This has allowed the counterfeit drugs circulating in Australasia to be restrained to a certain extent.

This also means that certain supervision of the pharmaceutical industry must be carried out to ensure that pharmaceutical companies produce truly effective drugs rather than qualified commercial drugs.

If Arthur remembers correctly, there is a famous saying about the pharmaceutical industry in later generations, that is, the so-called "drugs that can cure diseases are not good commodities."

The impact of this sentence is huge, and it also represents a terrible fact, that is, the pharmaceutical industry, which is very important to the people, has been corrupted by capital.

Maybe there is no drug treatment for a certain disease, or there is no better drug treatment. But the problem is that these drugs may not be good commodities, so they are buried in safes by those capitalists and are unwilling to take them out to treat diseases and save lives.

Although doing so will bring higher profits to the pharmaceutical industry, it is not a good thing for the development of a country.

As the ruler of Australasia, Arthur wants to avoid this kind of thing as much as possible and ensure that effective medicines flow to the market, rather than good goods that make profits.

When he established the pharmaceutical group, Arthur never thought about how much profit the pharmaceutical group would bring to him.

Compared to making profits, a relatively superficial thing that only capitalists would do, Arthur hopes to develop more effective drugs and contribute to Australasia and all Australasians.

Such incidents also gave Arthur a profound reflection. In addition to the state and officials, any company that creates a monopoly on a certain industry will definitely turn into a sickle to harvest the people.

To avoid this situation, in addition to stricter supervision of major enterprises, a complete and reasonable anti-monopoly law is also necessary.

The good news is that there are currently no private monopolies in various industries in Australasia. Monopolies are more caused by royal family and government companies.

The government will not do stupid things under Arthur's supervision, and Arthur will not harm his own country. This also ensures that the current business environment in Australasia is relatively good, and the people's life happiness index is also guaranteed.

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