Chapter 27 Education

Seeing that Minister Pierre decisively agreed to his request, Arthur nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Minister Pierre, as long as you can successfully complete the three-year plan, you will definitely get the credit. But there is Don’t forget that while developing our steel industry, don’t forget to build other industries that we need.”

"Yes! Your Highness." Pierre nodded solemnly.

"Industrial development burns money very quickly. Minister Pierre, I will allocate 12 million pounds to you, which will be paid in three years. All industrial equipment will also be handed over to you. I look forward to seeing your achievements. " Arthur said with a smile.

With sufficient industrial equipment, the capital of 12 million pounds for three years is also 4 million pounds per year, which is definitely not low.

"Yes, Your Highness! I promise to complete the task!" Minister Pierre stood up suddenly and said to Arthur very solemnly.

"Okay, now that the plan for the industrial sector has been temporarily determined, it's the education sector's turn next, right? As the saying goes, education revitalizes the country. With a large number of talents invested in the development and construction of the country, Australia really has hope of rising. ." Arthur looked at Education Minister Richard Noble Chapman and asked with a smile.

"Your Highness, our country's education situation is currently very backward. The population literacy rate is only over 60%. This seems like nothing. Our country's primary school graduation rate is only 51%, nearly half Many people have not graduated from primary school. This is partly because my country’s per capita income is relatively low and some people cannot afford education. On the other hand, it is also because the current educational environment in Australia is very poor and we do not have enough schools to accommodate them. All children of school age,” Education Minister Richard Noble Chapman said with a wry smile as he stood up.

Although Minister Richard has done a good job in education in Tasmania, after all, Tasmania has a relatively small population and the difficulty of developing education has also been greatly reduced.

Looking at Australia as a whole, if we want to completely solve the education problem, in addition to building enough schools to accommodate students, we also need to reduce tuition and miscellaneous fees as much as possible so that most Australian families can afford tuition.

"Does the Ministry of Education have any good solutions?" Arthur asked.

Arthur also knows something about Australia's education situation.

Logically speaking, Australia's population is mostly European immigrants and should be highly educated.

But in fact, most of these people are gold diggers attracted by gold mines and gold rushes. Most of these people in Europe are also poor people who cannot afford to eat. They travel across the ocean to Australia to find opportunities to survive or even get rich. .

Under such circumstances, it is an unexpected result that Australia's population literacy rate and primary school graduation rate can both remain above half.

"Your Highness, I think our current education policy should give priority to the development of basic education and rapidly increase the literacy rate of the population and the popularity of basic education. According to the general trend, with the various construction and development of our country, a large number of students will be born High-income positions. These positions generally have one thing in common, which is that although our basic education cannot enable workers to learn these knowledge, they can at least be more adaptable when exposed to them. Minister Chad said.

A person with knowledge and cultural reserves will most likely learn new things faster than a person without knowledge and culture reserves.

Australia is bound to have a large number of technical jobs in the future, and these jobs will naturally be filled by Australians.

This also means that the government must now quickly improve the knowledge and cultural level of Australians. At least the population literacy rate must be significantly increased so that Australians can quickly adapt to these positions in the future.

"Well, continue." Arthur nodded with satisfaction and motioned for Minister Richard to continue.

"Your Highness, there is another advantage of prioritizing the development of basic education, that is, we are not so urgent about scientific research equipment and teacher reserves. I think our first task is to quickly popularize basic education in Australia, and at the same time, concentrate part of the funds to build a key university, that is, Meeting the vacancies in domestic universities can also become the cradle of our future talents. If this university has a large amount of research funds, it may also make some contributions to our talent introduction work in Europe," Minister Richard said with a smile. .

Education in various European countries is very good, and various universities can train a large number of talents every year.

But it is precisely because of this that there will always be some frustrated people who are dissatisfied with their treatment and look for another way out for their dreams.

If Australian universities provide a large amount of research funds to all talents, they will definitely attract some scientists who are obsessed with research but cannot obtain much research funds to come to Australia to conduct research.

Once these talents come to Australia, it will be easy to control them.

This is also the purpose of unrestricted university research funds mentioned by Minister Richard, to attract talents to Australia through huge research funds.

"Well, the proposal is good. How much funding does the Ministry of Education need in total? How long will it take to see results in the construction of basic education?" Arthur asked.

Richard's proposal is very good. It will not only save the government money to the greatest extent, but also improve Australia's education situation and even attract talents to Australia in the future.

But before we see the real results, all this is just talk on paper.

"Your Highness, if we just want to popularize basic education, we only need to build urban and rural primary schools in various states and cities. Because the scale is different, the funds required are also different. According to my conservative estimate, the funds needed to popularize basic education are about two million pounds. The construction of the primary school can be put into use in half a year, and our educational environment can be improved in a year." Minister Richard thought for a while and said slowly.

"What if we count the colleges to be built?" Arthur asked.

In any case, universities, the cradle of cultivating high-level talents, must be built, no matter how much it costs.

Therefore, the cost of university construction must also be included, and even implemented as soon as possible.

"Your Highness, the cost of building an advanced university alone may be millions of pounds. If the funds required to purchase scientific research equipment and introduce talents are counted, the conservative estimate is two million pounds." Minister Richard thought for a long time and gave a surprising answer after a long time.

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