Chapter 990 Knocking on bones and sucking out marrow
Although Kewell and his team were recognized by the top management of Tomsk State Polytechnic University in terms of academic level, the recruitment work was still not going smoothly, and the time passed in the blink of an eye, three days later.
Anka: "Mr. Kewell, although Tomsk is only a Far Eastern city, there is no doubt that those who can enroll in Tomsk are elites. Russia does not have universal compulsory education, and their government has not done so before. Withdrawing from relevant policies has almost cut off the upward path for the lower class people.”
"In my exchanges with colleagues, I also learned about this situation. The literacy rate in Tsarist Russia is only 20%, and there are still a lot of tricks in it. Take most primary education in Russia, among which the five-year primary school The proportion is less than 5%, most of them are only three-year, and the quality of the educational content is probably not even comparable to that in East Africa.”
It goes without saying how significant the 20% figure is. According to the population of Tsarist Russia, at least more than 20 million people have received education. If this is true, Tsarist Russia will not be surpassed by East Africa in many fields.
“Before Tsarist Russia, 50% of the schools did not have their own educational facilities, but carried out educational work by renting houses or using venues provided by religions. Theology was an essential item in Tsarist Russian schools, which also occupied a large amount of educational resources. ”
No country can escape religious issues, and this is also true in the field of education, and the same is naturally true in East Africa. However, theological education in East Africa can only be accessed by universities, and there are not many people recruited. They must also obey state arrangements and accept state assessments. Compared with current Russia, East Africa is a completely secular country.
“Moreover, the education situation in some parts of Europe has increased Russia’s overall education level, which means that the Far East has even weaker data.”
Kewell nodded and said: "We were mentally prepared before coming to Russia. I am not surprised at all by this result."
Anka: "But just as we thought, Russia's middle school and university education are no worse than European schools. Take the local middle schools and universities in Tomsk as an example. Those who can enroll are basically from Tomsk or Siberia. For the ruling class or wealthy group in the region, we only found seven students at Tomsk University who should be considered ordinary families. Only one of them was born in a real peasant family, and the remaining few were aristocratic squires whose families were in decline, or who had fallen into decline. wealthy family."
According to Soviet standards, the peasant families Anka mentioned should be classified as rich peasants, or yeoman farmers, and certainly not serfs.
A single-digit “lower class” educated population in a university is unimaginable in East Africa. Although the education level in East Africa is in shambles due to funding issues, many civilians also have the opportunity to enter universities, and they account for the majority of college students in East Africa.
Cowell: "Having said that, I have to admit that after the serfdom reform, Russia's education has made progress. In the middle of the last century, the number of educated people in Tsarist Russia probably did not reach one percent. Even if Twenty percent is mixed with a lot of water, and it is much better than it was a few decades ago. We also had many immigrants from the Alexander II era in East Africa, and few of them were literate. "
Anka: "It's better than nothing. Currently, there are only three fresh graduates who have revealed the idea of developing in East Africa. The level is not bad, but it is not a scarce talent in East Africa."
As mentioned before, Tomsk State Polytechnic University was founded in 1896, and this year happened to be the graduation of the first batch of college students.
Kewell said helplessly: "It's easy to understand. If East Africa were a European and American country, I'm afraid they would have already started to move their luggage, and East Africa is obviously not that attractive to them. If we hadn't come to Tomsk in person, I'm afraid their Not even East Africa will be considered.”
"This is the significance of our work, to connect European and American students to find jobs in East Africa. Don't be discouraged. If these three people from Tomsk State Polytechnic University have real talents and practical knowledge, we can provide them with convenience, and Tomsk State Polytechnic University The Polytechnic University is only a local university. If we take a pessimistic view, it means that we can recruit at least five or six people locally. "Just imagine, Tomsk is just a far eastern city in Tsarist Russia that is not economically developed. There are not many powerful schools in Tsarist Russia than Tomsk State Polytechnic University. We can find a few in each school, which adds up to at least dozens. Plus the talents in the industrial field of Tsarist Russia, that is the number of schools in Tsarist Russia. Hundreds of people, looking at it this way, this trip is relatively pragmatic.”
Kewell's comfort did work. Tomsk was just their first stop in Siberia, and Kewell's group was just a small branch that came to Tsarist Russia to recruit people.
The failure to achieve results in Tomsk does not mean that Siberia, let alone developed European regions, cannot do so.
After comforting themselves and motivating themselves, the members of the working group began to recruit people from other schools or factories in Tomsk.
And as Cowell said, the potential of Tomsk as a whole is still good. Before the end of 1900, Cowell's group provided convenience for a total of 13 people from Tomsk to travel to East Africa, including those in science, engineering, and medicine. Students, mainly from Tomsk State Polytechnic University and Siberian State Medical University (also in Tomsk).
In addition to the students, there are not many technical talents in Tomsk who have lost their jobs due to the economic crisis, which is also the main gain for Kewell and his team this time.
After the work in Tomsk was over, Kewell and his team did not stop. The next stop was Novosibirsk. However, compared to the current academic center of Siberia, Tomsk, the city of Novosibirsk only a few years ago. Time began to develop entirely because of the construction of the Siberian Railway.
So the working group stayed here for a short time. Their next stop was also an important city in Russia, Yekaterinburg.
Before the end of 1990, the East African government recruited a total of less than thirty talents of various types from the east of the Ural Mountains in Russia, temporarily draining the available local talents.
This is simply adding insult to injury to the already backward and under-educated Siberian region of Russia. However, even without the intervention of East Africa, there is a high probability that these people will leave Siberia in the future and find employment in the European part of western Russia or other European and American countries, or even without the intervention of East Africa. East African intervention, some of these people will become one of the main forces to overthrow Russian rule in the future.
East Africa in Siberia recruited nearly 30 people. The more developed European part of Russia will naturally have better results. In 1900 alone, through the East African Talent Introduction Plan, as many as 224 Russians immigrated to East Africa. Most of them are newly graduated college students or technical talents who cannot maintain their lives due to unemployment.
East Africa's attack on Russia has just begun. During the economic crisis in Tsarist Russia, work in East Africa will continue. That is to say, in the next two years, more high-quality Russian talents will flow into East Africa. As the saying goes, as long as the **** is used It's good, there is no corner that cannot be dug.
Under the economic crisis in Russia, East Africa’s talent introduction plan is just an appetizer, and other European and American countries are the real banquet.
There is no doubt that these talents will contribute to the construction of East Africa during the First Five-Year Plan and make corresponding contributions to improving East Africa’s industrial system and other fields.
(End of this chapter)