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Chapter 1191 The Life of a Technical Secondary School Student

Compared with primary and secondary education at the grassroots level, which emphasizes universality but has poor educational quality, the quality of official higher education in the Great Chu Empire is very good.

The school is built in a very grand manner, the teachers are capable and sufficient in number, and many majors adopt small classes to ensure the quality of education.

At the same time, these government-run universities can also obtain a large amount of school operating funds and scientific research funds every year.

Why are there such changes in grassroots education and higher education?

That depends on the attitude of the top leaders of the Great Chu Empire towards education.

Firstly, the purpose of primary and secondary education is not to cultivate talents... This is unrealistic. Not to mention the cost of training, even if they are trained, there are not so many universities for them to go to.

The basic education in the Great Chu Empire had only two purposes. One was to train a large number of basic labor forces, such as workers, ordinary service industry personnel, etc. These people could not be illiterate, but they did not need a high level of education. A junior high school level was good enough, and elementary school level was actually enough.

The second purpose is to select a small number of talents for subsequent higher education training.

Based on these two important goals, it is understandable why the middle and low-end education in the Chu Empire implemented universal education of relatively poor quality. On the one hand, the cost was unaffordable, and on the other hand, it was unnecessary.

At the same time, this is also the reason why the educational institutions of the Great Chu Empire have vigorously developed secondary vocational schools, that is, technical secondary schools, in the past ten years or so. After graduating from technical secondary schools, students can enter enterprises to work and engage in low- and medium-end technical jobs that are in very high demand, or even become ordinary workers.

Compared with developing high schools, educational institutions in the Chu Empire prefer to invest more funds in secondary technical schools.

Therefore, in the past ten years, the growth rate of high school enrollment has been very limited, but the enrollment of technical secondary schools has increased significantly every year.

In addition, even many junior high schools will offer more practical optional courses in addition to the regular cultural courses, such as machinery repair, equipment operation, accounting, etc.

These courses are generally elective subjects, and students can choose whether to enroll based on their own circumstances. If they do, when they graduate, the school will organize a technical qualification examination together with educational institutions. If they pass the examination, they can obtain the corresponding elementary technical certificate. This will give junior high school graduates who do not continue their studies an advantage when looking for a job.

Expanding the scale of technical secondary schools and offering vocational and technical courses in junior high schools has been a key project promoted by the Great Chu Empire over the past decade, with a considerable amount of funds invested each year.

  why?

But it is just to train more mid- and low-end technical personnel.

However, when it comes to higher education, it is a different story.

First of all, the number of students admitted to university preparatory high schools is small, and the tuition is high. Unless you can get a scholarship, it will be difficult for even a middle-class family to afford it.

Because the high schools in the Great Chu Empire are not ordinary secondary education stages, but rather a kind of university preparatory school.

In short, students can further develop their cultural level in high school before going to college, so that they can better adapt to study in college.

If you go to high school but don't apply for college, you will be at a disadvantage... You will even be worse off than technical secondary school students in terms of employment. Technical secondary school students can learn some professional skills in three years, but what about you, a high school student? You have studied hard for three years to achieve a deeper cultural level, and many of the things you learned are actually useless in low-end jobs, or you don't have much advantage.

In order to prevent students from wasting their youth by failing to get into college after graduating from high school, the Great Chu Empire has a special skill training policy for high school students in their last year. That is, after you finish your second year of high school, if you feel that you are unlikely to get into college, or you cannot get a scholarship and cannot afford the tuition, then the school will give you a way out, which is to give up studying cultural courses in your third year of high school and instead learn various vocational skills, and pass the assessment to obtain the corresponding vocational technical integers when you graduate.

In short, during the middle school stage, the empire's educational institutions, on the one hand, select students with strong learning abilities to go to college, and then try to send those who fail to get into college to technical secondary schools or take a vocational technical course in their senior year of high school, and finally switch to training mid- and low-end technical personnel.

Of course, we can only try our best!

In fact, nowadays, many junior high school students cannot even get into technical secondary school.

Not to mention technical secondary schools, even when going from primary school to junior high school, not everyone can get into junior high school.

Training a large number of qualified low-level technical personnel is an important goal of the Great Chu Empire in the middle school stage.

But it’s different when you get to college.

Those who are admitted to university, whether it is a junior college or an undergraduate program, have actually entered a whole new world from the moment they are admitted.

In university, or even in junior college, they can receive very high-end education!

  The Great Chu Empire's efforts in training college students are enormous!

After graduation, it is relatively easy for these limited number of college students to work in government agencies. If they want to take the imperial examinations, they can directly participate in the provincial examinations without having to pass the qualification examinations for the academy examinations like high school and technical secondary school students.

At the same time, because he had received a university education, his cultural level was sufficient, so the difficulty in the provincial examination was relatively small.

If you want to enter the fields of R&D, business, etc., it is also very easy. There are enough senior positions waiting for these college students in society.

With the current population size and economic scale of the contemporary Chu Empire, it is fully capable of absorbing the college students who graduate every year.

This involves another issue, which is that the annual enrollment scale of college students in the Great Chu Empire is not set by the university itself, nor is it admitted based on a ratio.

Instead, the empire's top management decides the annual enrollment scale based on data such as the empire's recent and future economic development, economic size, and high-end talent gap.

The purpose is simple, to ensure that the vast majority of college students can get a job that matches their status after graduation.

There will not be a situation where an undergraduate graduate cannot find a high-paying job after graduation and has to kill pigs or sweep the streets.

For a huge empire with little external pressure, the harm caused by an overabundance of high-end talents is far greater than a shortage of high-end talents.

Just imagine, a person who has received high-end education finds that he can't even find a suitable job after graduation and has to do the same work as a group of middle school students. How can he feel balanced?

  Once the mind is unbalanced, uncertainty will come. Many indigenous countries secretly set up private arsenals, and the technical support is often provided by these high-end talents who are unsuccessful in their own countries!

I have studied hard for more than ten years and acquired a lot of skills, but you don't want me?

Then it's my fault for working for those natives and making a lot of money.

Don't think this is uncommon, it actually happens quite frequently.

This is also one of the important reasons why the top leaders of the Great Chu Empire have never dared to open up high-end education... They are afraid of unnecessary chaos caused by an oversupply of high-end talents.

As for the problem of insufficient technical personnel, the Empire prefers to train a large number of low-level technical personnel during the six years of middle school.

Various reasons ultimately lead to the fact that the education system of the contemporary empire is rather special.

There is comprehensive and inclusive education at the primary school level. As long as you want to study, you can study, and government-run schools will give you a degree no matter what.

After finishing six years of primary school, you can recognize words and do arithmetic, and know some basic science and common sense in life. This level is enough to be a basic worker or to farm.

Then comes the six-year middle school stage. During this stage, the imperial government no longer provides comprehensive and inclusive education, but instead adopts a scholarship system, awarding a large number of scholarships to outstanding students to support them in completing high school and then entering university.

For ordinary middle school students, the tuition fees are average, and ordinary families can afford it with a little bit of effort. After three years of junior high school, they still go to work in factories or do other low-paying jobs.

If you want to further your studies, you can choose technical secondary schools or high schools. It is more difficult to get into high school as the admission score is very high and there are very few places available. The tuition is also very expensive... If there are no scholarships, it will be very difficult for an ordinary middle-class family to support you.

The high school stage is the university preparatory stage, and its annual enrollment ratio is directly linked to the number of university admissions three years later. Enrollment is based on a certain ratio and is not random.

As for technical secondary schools, it is actually not easy to apply. It is not that the authorities are deliberately blocking you, but school construction and teacher training take time. At the same time, maintaining vocational education also requires a lot of educational funding costs. The authorities have already increased the number of degrees as much as possible.

If students are able to pass the entrance exam, the tuition fee is about the same as that of junior high school, which will put some pressure on middle-class families, but not too much.

When you reach university, you will receive a comprehensive elite education. You will be provided with various educational resources and a large number of scholarships, especially those in science and engineering.

As long as your academic performance is decent, you can basically get a half scholarship, and you can apply for a tuition loan for the remaining tuition. There is no interest during the study period, and you will only have to pay interest after graduation, and the interest rate is not high.

Simply put, as long as you can pass the exam and get a half scholarship, even if your family is poor, you can rely on scholarships, school financial aid and part-time job living expenses to complete your studies... Once you complete your studies, you will be a rich man and your salary will be very considerable.

As for not being able to get a scholarship and your family being poor... If a child from a poor family doesn't have the confidence to get a scholarship, why would you apply to university? Wouldn't it be better to go to a technical secondary school and then start working early to support your family?

  The student loans of the Great Chu Empire are policy-based preferential loans, only for poor students with excellent academic performance!

Students who are poor and poor in academic performance are not supported!

Hurry up and go to the factory to screw screws. Why are you coming to the university to join in the fun?

  Decades have passed, and there are still only two types of people in the universities of the Great Chu Empire: rich people and talented students!

If you don’t have money to study, then there’s nothing to say!

And you don’t have to worry too much about not being able to go to school when you are a child because your family is poor.

The Great Chu Empire has a culture of child prodigies. The biggest dream, or political achievement, of education officials from all over the country is to train at least one student from the Royal Institute of Technology!

In order to discover child prodigies, these people keep an eye on primary school students all day long. As long as you show some talent, the local educational institution will immediately arrange you to the best local primary school, give you a full scholarship, and then study with a group of talented candidate students.

As long as you maintain excellent academic performance, you can basically receive scholarships all the way through junior high and high school. Many scholarships not only waive various tuition fees, but also provide you with a monthly living allowance.

It is very common for a gifted student to start using living allowance to help support his family even as early as primary school.

By the time you reach high school, if your talent is really off the charts and the local education officials see even a glimmer of hope that you can be admitted to the Royal Institute of Technology, they will dare to arrange jobs for your parents directly so that you can concentrate on your studies without any worries.

Even if you take a step back and have no hope of getting into the Royal Institute of Technology, if you still have hope of applying to military academies, Imperial College, Jinling Institute of Technology and other schools, local education officials will be very much looking forward to it and will provide you with all kinds of scholarships and subsidies.

If you really get into a military academy, the local government will be able to directly give you a generous scholarship and treat you as an equal... because once you are admitted to a military academy... no matter how you do in the future, your social status is basically equal to those elites who have passed the imperial examination.

  Even more than ten years later, after you retire and transfer to the local area, your career will be smoother than those who took the imperial examination!

As long as you are talented enough, even if your family is poor, you can still complete college and change your life.

  Because the education system of the Great Chu Empire has been criticized by many people, the prodigy culture will become your greatest help, supporting you to take off and eventually soar into the sky!

As for ordinary people, they are not treated so well. They just need to go to technical secondary school honestly, and then go to big cities to do some low-skilled jobs to support their families.

Even if it is a low-skilled job, the income is actually quite good. It is not a problem to earn more than ten Chu Yuan. After accumulating skills for a few years, it is not difficult to earn twenty or thirty Chu Yuan a month.

Twenty or thirty Chu Yuan is considered a standard middle-class income in the Chu Empire. If both husband and wife work, their monthly income can be more than thirty or forty Chu Yuan.

If the couple is a little frugal and doesn't encounter any major accidents and can save money, they can save enough money to buy an ordinary two-bedroom apartment in the suburbs in three or four years.

Well, the kind that requires full payment, and it’s a house in the suburbs of Songjiang City... This kind of ordinary suburban apartment is actually not very expensive even in Songjiang. You can get a two-bedroom apartment for five or six hundred Chu Yuan.

  What is really expensive are the single-family houses!

If I save some money in another year or two, I can buy an ordinary car. Two or three hundred Chu Yuan will be enough for a second-hand one.

Even if you can't afford a four-wheeler, you can still afford a three-wheeler.

Many middle-class families today cannot afford four-wheeled cars, so they often choose to buy small tricycles launched by car manufacturers for ordinary urban families. Such cars can often be bought for around one hundred Chu yuan.

This type of tricycle, which is used by office workers for commuting and family travel, basically has a carport and a better appearance. It has a driver's seat in the front and a row of seats in the back.

I can't say that this tricycle is very good, but at least it can protect you from wind and rain. It is very useful for commuting to work on weekdays and for taking your wife and children out for fun on vacation.

  Why do you think that among the Chu people, an ordinary low- or middle-level technician can live so freely?

We have to thank the hundreds of millions of indigenous people in India, West Asia, Europe and Africa. Without their hard work, the life of the Chu people would not be so good!

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