Chapter 38 Public Opinion Preparation

Is 800 students really a lot? Arthur just wants to say that it is not much, really not much.

Compared with the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of students in later universities, the Australian National University, as the only university in Australia, has a very small enrollment of 800 students.

But this actually depends on the population of Australia. At present, Australia has only more than 3.7 million people at most. The number of high school graduates who are between 18 and 30 and suitable for college is even smaller. It may be that the whole of Australia cannot gather 10,000 people.

"President Wilfrid Freeman Weinberg, how many applicants do you estimate this time? Can it meet the prescribed enrollment standards?" Arthur asked.

The number of admissions should still be in line with the number of applicants. If there are not too many applicants, then no matter how high the enrollment number is set at this time, it will not have any effect, but will only add to the joke.

"Your Highness, after we combined the data from the Ministry of Education and made a preliminary calculation, we learned that there are about 21,000 Australians who have graduated from high school and are of the appropriate age. Among them, excluding those who have stable high-income jobs, there are less than 10,000 potential people for this recruitment. Under normal circumstances, there will be at least 1,000 people who sign up for this recruitment, but if you call for it, this number can be multiplied several times." Wilfrid Freeman Weinberg said, and the meaning behind his words was a metaphorical request for Arthur to call on Australians of the appropriate age to apply for university.

"Hahaha, that's fine. You are all elites in the education industry, and you naturally know that talents are something that requires excellence. I hope you can select about 1,000 of the most outstanding talents from the applicants and train them. They will be the backbone of Australia in a few years." Arthur laughed and agreed to Wilfrid Freeman Weinberg's proposal.

"Your Highness, I'm afraid we still have to consider one question, that is, whether the families of the students who apply for the exam can afford the expensive tuition fees for their university? I think the royal family and the government should pay most of the fees for these students, otherwise most of our students may have to give up halfway." Wilfrid Freeman Weinberg did not give up after achieving his goal and continued to give Arthur advice.

As one of the senior leaders in the education industry, Wilfrid Freeman Weinberg spent most of his life as president or dean in major universities in the British Empire.

This time, he was hired by the Australian government with a high salary. Wilfrid Freeman Weinberg had only one request, that is, he had to have a say in the development of the university.

Arthur naturally didn't mind. After all, professional things still have to be done by professionals. Although Arthur has a lot of experience and knowledge from later generations, as a monarch, he is qualified to leave his subordinates' affairs to his subordinates.

"No problem. The royal family promises to pay 70% of the tuition fees for all students, and the remaining 30% of the tuition fees will also be paid by the royal family first. When these outstanding students graduate and enter various industries in Australia in the future, their performance will determine whether the paid tuition fees will be waived." Arthur nodded and said with a smile.

Arthur is not a great philanthropist. Arthur does not mind waiving part of the tuition fees for these students, but only part of it.

The royal family will advance the remaining tuition fees for them first. On the one hand, it can be used as an excuse to let these students serve the royal family, and on the other hand, it can also narrow the distance between these talents and the royal family, which is to cultivate talents for the royal family in disguise.

Wilfrid Freeman Weinberg also saw Arthur's intention, but Wilfrid Freeman Weinberg did not stop him.

His purpose is only to develop the Australian National University into one of the world's top colleges. As for other things, Wilfrid Freeman Weinberg does not want to manage and does not care.

"In addition, the royal family will set up royal scholarships in the university, select 200 poor students with excellent moral character every year, and provide at least 10 pounds of funding." Arthur said with a smile.

This sentence is a bombshell. In this era when there are only one talent in a million in universities, a college student is an absolute talent anywhere.

In addition to the different development of education in various countries, the high cost of going to university is also the cause of this phenomenon.

Everyone present is an elite in the education field, but they have only heard of partial exemption of fees for going to university, but have never heard of paying money for going to university!

Arthur has exempted most of the fees before, and the remaining fees can be paid in advance. In other words, going to university can be completely free of charge. In this case, the royal family will also provide scholarships. Isn't this luring everyone to go to university in Australia?

But think about it carefully, it seems that Arthur doesn't pay much every year, that is, only 2,000 pounds a year.

But this move will definitely greatly increase the attractiveness of the Australian National University to those students. After all, everyone has the idea of ​​gamble once for the probability of a quarter of the scholarship.

"Okay, that's all the policies. You can adjust the number of university admissions based on future applications. But it should not exceed 1,500 and should not be less than 800. I will mobilize public opinion and call on all Australians to apply for university. It is your business to select the best talents among them." After Arthur said the last sentence, he left the meeting room with his guards.

After Arthur left, everyone did not start to idle, but entered a new round of quota competition.

Although Arthur limited the number of students admitted to the entire school, he did not limit the actual number of students admitted to each major.

This also led to a certain increase in the original theoretical number of students in each major, making his major the major with the largest number of students this time.

While the teachers of the five majors were fighting for their respective enrollment quotas, Arthur had returned to the manor and began to prepare to mobilize public opinion.

Australia currently also has newspapers, which are inherited from the newspapers of several original colonies, and are now uniformly purchased by Arthur.

It has to be said that in this era, newspapers are the best thing to control public opinion. Controlling the distribution of newspapers in a country is actually controlling the public opinion of this country.

After all, in this era without too many entertainment facilities and activities, the only way for most people to learn about the outside world is to buy newspapers from newspaper companies or read other people's newspapers.

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