Chapter 2805
Due to the limitations of the objective environment, there are currently only about twenty tutors in the entire college, and most of them are part-time. However, in order to improve the teaching quality of the college, the management committee has made adjustments to the work arrangements of these part-time staff starting this year, so that they can have more time to teach at the school.
The official intention is to encourage professional and technical personnel to participate in teaching work, so their salaries will also be adjusted accordingly. Thanks to the considerable benefits that mining has brought to the northern region in recent years, the government is also willing to spend more money on talent training. The treatment standards set by Chen Yixin for these wives have made their income levels exceed those of most in the south. Peers.
Just as Bai Letong believes, Chen Yixin also firmly believes that generous treatment will attract more professional talents to the northern region. The knowledge and skills brought by these talents will continue to feed back the development of local industries. However, this process may take a long time and requires long-term implementation in the Northern Region to be effective.
Bai Letong asked again about the overall school situation in Dengzhou area, and Chen Pingliao asked the accompanying cultural and educational officials to give a brief introduction to Bai Letong.
Dengzhou currently has one official elementary school in each of its seven counties and one prefecture, and the only middle school is located in Dengzhou City. Together with the vocational college in Fushan County, these are all the local government-run schools in Dengzhou. And this vocational college is already the highest institution of higher education in the Northern Region within the Shandong actual control area.
In addition, of course there are some private schools, academies and other educational institutions among the private sector. However, most of these institutions continue the educational methods and directions of the previous Ming Dynasty, which are different from the official requirements, so they will not be officially recognized for the time being. academic qualifications.
In order to eliminate such differences and allow more people to have the opportunity to serve the government, the Northern Region held an imperial examination last year. Scholars trained by the two educational mechanisms finally had the opportunity to compete on the same field.
The results are of course not difficult to predict. Personnel trained by government-run educational institutions are obviously more adaptable to the Haihan-style imperial examination. Most of the people on the gold list have Haihan academic qualifications. And a candidate from Jinan Dewangfu became the focus with his second place result.
Bai Letong interrupted when he heard this: "I have already met the young prince of Prince De's Mansion in Donghai Region, and I probably know the situation. By analogy, the second place in the local imperial examination should not be taken seriously, right?"
Chen Pingliao said with a smile: "Since Brother Bai knows the inside story, there is nothing to explain. I heard that the person who went to Donghai Region is high school Jieyuan. If we also give this young prince the first place, then it will be arranged The traces are too obvious, so the second place is pretty good. This young prince is now interning in Liaodong, and there should be a chance to meet you when you go to Jinzhou. "
Bai Letong said: "Since we are opening courses to obtain scholars at the same time as the Donghai Region, I guess the Northern Region will not stick to the ranking, right?"
Chen Pingliao said: "In this provincial examination, there were more than a thousand people taking the exam in Dengzhou and Jinzhou, and there were thirty people on the gold list. However, the people we hired after the list was released were actually nearly half of the people who had references. .”
Due to objective environmental reasons, the number of references in the Northern Region is far less than that in the East China Sea Region, so the recruitment standards for reference personnel are relatively loose. As long as they show a certain cultural foundation in the exam and there are no obvious position issues, even if they have not had any previous With Haihan academic qualifications, these reference personnel will also be officially recruited. Returning to his residence in the evening, Bai Letong told his father in detail what he had seen during today's visit, and finally expressed his opinion: "Judging from the situation of this vocational college, the Northern Region is still very concerned about cultural and educational work. Yes, but Uncle Chen’s focus is on vocational training rather than a complete and complete cultural and educational system. There are only eight government-run primary schools and one middle school in the entire Dengzhou area, which is really too few. I plan to make some suggestions to Uncle Chen about this. Suggestion, what does father think?”
Bai Kesi said: "Chen Yixin is a very pragmatic person. Everything he does has a very clear purpose. Whether it is building a port or developing education, the purpose is to enhance the comprehensive strength of the northern region. Based on what you visited Take the college as an example. You have to know that what he wants is not ordinary literati, but a large number of industrial workers who can engage in technical work and create value for the northern region. That's why this kind of college appears to be built and operated. Such a vocational college probably requires more resources than the eight primary schools combined.”
"Letong, if you want to suggest that Chen Yixin implement Hainan's cultural and educational system, I don't think it will work. With limited resources, he will definitely be more inclined to choose a direction with higher value and faster realization."< br>
Bai Letong said: "You mean, to the Northern Region, industrial workers are more valuable than ordinary scholars?"
Bai Kesi said: "It is not as simple as you think. The prerequisite for universal basic education is to have sufficient educational resources, but I am afraid that the northern region does not yet have such conditions and cannot achieve the scale of running schools like the south. So Chen Yixin chose Prioritize the development of vocational education that is urgently needed locally. After the economy develops, it will be relatively easier to build schools and improve the literacy rate of the people.”
The views given by Bai Kesi were obviously different from Bai Letong's cognition, but Bai Letong also believed that what his father said should be the objective truth. He barely squeezed out a smile and said, "Spend the money on running schools. After all, it is better than resorting to force.”
They had already learned about Chen Yixin's plan to expand the Northern Fleet at Qingdao Port. In Bai Letong's view, the war in the north has been decided. There is almost no external threat to Haihan's ability to control the sea in this region, and there is no need to expand the army. Instead of continuing to spend huge sums of money to build strong ships and cannons, it would be better to use these funds for people's livelihood.
Bai Kesi said: "As for running schools, what the Northern Region lacks is not funds, but cultural and educational personnel. Running schools does not conflict with maintaining military strength. The approach of the Northern Region is a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, it runs imperial examinations to attract talents; on the other hand, it Continue to use armed force to frighten the Ming and Qing Dynasties.”
Bai Letong said: "But I always feel that the attitude towards culture and education here seems not to be as positive as that of the Donghai Region."
Bai Kesi said: "The objective conditions of the two places are different. You can't draw correct conclusions by comparing them like this. It's like the Donghai Region is also working hard to develop industry, but that area actually seriously lacks energy and minerals, and the objective conditions are far inferior to those in the north, which is blessed by nature. The region can only strive to move closer to the manufacturing industry in the downstream industrial chain. However, the situation of the cultural and educational industries in the two places is exactly the opposite. No matter how much resources the northern region invests in this area, it will be difficult for the foreseeable period. Catching up with the East China Sea Region”
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