Chapter 928： Troops give way

Chapter 928: The Army Makes Way

Rogers: “This time our city has just launched five new key schools, including the new Frankfurt University of Technology, the new Frankfurt Light Industry College, the new Frankfurt Electric Power Engineering College, the new Frankfurt Textile Industry College, and the new Frankfurt City College of Light Industry. Automobile repair school."

At the beginning of the education reform, New Frankfurt City was overwhelmed by the central government's pie. As a relatively young East African city, New Frankfurt City did not even have a university before. This time, four more were added. Mayor Logans was very excited.

The reason why there are four is because the fifth New Frankfurt Automobile Repair College does not fall into the category of higher education, but its appearance on the list at least shows that it is the same type of key school as Mbeya Electric Power Technical School.

"Our New Frankfurt City has developed at a slow pace in recent years, but its education is much worse than that of cities at the same level. Now that the national policy has been implemented, this problem will be solved immediately. In terms of the number of colleges to be built, it can already be squeezed into the forefront of East African cities,” said Rogans.

You must know that Soga City and First Town City, which have the highest concentration of higher education in East Africa, only have ten universities combined. Mbeya City has only three universities, but its laboratories and research institutions are among the best in East Africa.

Of course, being able to obtain such generous treatment is inseparable from New Frankfurt’s own advantages. The most important point is that the city is the heart of the East African Railway, and it is convenient for students from all directions to study here.

The second influencing factor is the rise of Rhine City. As the future capital of East Africa, educational resources are definitely the most intensive.

Because this time Ernst does not plan to build a specialized academic city like Soga City, but directly let the Rhine City act as an education, scientific research and academic center in East Africa.

But as the capital of a country, it is not best for all universities to be concentrated in the Rhineland. Especially for some engineering majors, it is better to be placed in cities with corresponding industrial distribution.

Among them, New Frankfurt City will undertake some light industrial projects or educational resources corresponding to advantageous industries.

First of all, it goes without saying that the Polytechnic University is self-evident. Although New Frankfurt’s industry is biased towards light industry, this does not hinder its status as an important industrial city in East Africa.

New Frankfurt is also one of the power equipment manufacturing centers and automobile assembly industry centers in East Africa. At the same time, benefiting from its status as a transportation hub, New Frankfurt is also the national cotton distribution center in East Africa. It is second only to the textile industry in the field. Nairobi City and Bulawayo City.

The only disadvantage of New Frankfurt City is that it is relatively lacking in mineral resources, but with the copper belt to the north, the industrial base of East Africa to the south, and the scientific research center of Mbeya City to the east, its geographical location is quite clever.

Of course, compared to New Frankfurt, other cities in East Africa have also gained a lot from this education reform. According to the content of this education reform, every provincial capital city in East Africa must have at least three higher education institutions in the next three years, and In addition to provincial capitals, there are a number of key cities in East Africa that can all get a share of the pie.

The most eye-catching one is undoubtedly the new capital of East Africa, Rhine City. The first batch of planned colleges and universities is as many as 20, and the type of universities is also the most comprehensive in East Africa.

As we all know, education in East Africa emphasizes liberal arts over science, so in the past there was basically no liberal arts higher education in East Africa. Of course, this does not explain how good science and engineering higher education is in East Africa. At least before this education reform, higher education resources in East Africa were extremely scarce. Yes, the previous forty-three universities had more wolves and less meat.

However, there is no way around this. East African education has a long history of development, and it took decades of continuous overseas students to accumulate enough talents for higher education teaching.

In the new round of educational resource allocation, New Frankfurt City is definitely very dazzling if compared with the previous higher education in East Africa. However, when other regions and departments have established higher education, it is not so outstanding.

In addition to allocating educational resources according to cities and industries, this school-running wave actually also involves the Ministry of Industry, Agriculture, Energy...National Defense, etc. At the same time, a number of original quasi-higher education schools were also upgraded, merged, and abolished during this reform. Among them, the Mbeya Electric Power Technical School was upgraded to the Mbeya Electric Power University. The merged schools were concentrated in the old industries in East Africa. As for cities, there are very few abolitions. In fact, abolitions and mergers echo each other. A more accurate name should be reorganization.

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“This time our Ministry of Education and other departments have listed a total of 172 institutions, covering basically all industries, agriculture and other fields.”

According to Ernst’s request, the East African government determined the new situation of higher education in East Africa after detailed discussions and research.

However, the number of 172 universities still shocked Ernst. After all, according to his original idea, it would be a lot if the number of higher education institutions in East Africa exceeded 100, but the list provided by the government was obviously much larger. Exceeded expectations, almost 200 seats.

Of course, after carefully reading the government plan, Ernst believed that this list was not only reasonable, but could not meet all the needs of East Africa. The demand for education in various departments and cities was relatively strong. If according to the East African government departments and provinces, From the perspective of administrative districts, one hundred and seventy-two universities may seem like a lot, but in fact it is simply not enough.

Of course, East Africa cannot become fat in one go. No matter how large the number is, it will obviously exceed the capabilities of the current East African government. After all, education funding in East Africa is limited.

East Africa’s investment in education has actually exceeded that of other countries in the same period. If this reform is carried out, it may even exceed the military expenditure of the National Defense Forces and the Army in 1890. After all, East Africa’s education covers a wide range of areas, including primary and secondary compulsory education. If it continues Coupled with universities, it is definitely a heavy burden for East African governments.

Of course, the current military expenditures of the East African Army are growing at a high rate. Especially after the formulation of the strategy of strengthening the army with motorization, the East African Army is in a period of transformation. However, this process is relatively long and it is estimated that it will not be completed until the first decade of the next century.

So, the East African government is now in a state of relatively short of money. It has to spend money on industrial and agricultural construction, military construction, and educational construction. It would like to spend a Rhine shield in half.

At present, East Africa is able to support the construction of 172 universities, which has given full play to the advantages of East Africa’s social system.

Of course, although one hundred and seventy-two universities are many, they include the original forty-three universities in East Africa. Therefore, the number of newly established universities in East Africa should be one hundred and twenty-nine, and higher education funding has directly quadrupled.

"Okay, let's implement it according to this list! After all, education is a long-term investment. You may not see any benefits now, but you must pay attention to it. Moreover, our external military pressure in East Africa is weak, so when the financial situation is tight, we can To appropriately slow down the development of the military, there is no need to invest all in mechanization. After all, the speed of technological update is not slow, and the same is true for the navy. In a few years, there may be new warships that surpass the current battleships, so the military reform must have certain limits. "

In Ernst’s words, the development of the military basically gave way to education. After all, the East African Army was not backward to begin with, and the Navy waited until the era of dreadnoughts came. Now these advanced warships are basically no different from scrap metal.

Furthermore, given the geographical location of East Africa, it is difficult to be threatened by military forces. Therefore, the dream of building a strong military can be slowed down a bit. It is better to give up more military expenditures to support the future development of science, technology and culture in East Africa.

(End of this chapter)