Rise of Australia
Chapter 749

Nicholas's True Objective

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The building of the 48 universities was not a matter of simply snapping one's fingers. Advanced planning was required for the classification of the universities to be built and the sources of the teaching equipment needed for their construction.

In terms of teaching staff, Australasia's talent reserves, combined with the talent attracted from America, were completely sufficient to meet the faculty demands of these 48 universities.

Arthur was also at ease with the work of the Ministry of Education, but he focused on enriching the types of universities to be built, ensuring that they were genuinely constructed according to demand rather than merely focusing on numbers.

Among the 48 universities, at least two universities were needed for chemical engineering, mechanical design, biopharmaceutics, medicine, physics and chemistry, education, aviation, and other fields.

Arthur requested that the number of specialized universities built exceed the number of ordinary universities, ensuring that the university students cultivated were precisely those urgently needed by the country.

At the same time, an annual militarized training program should be organized for enrolled university students, and the duration of each militarized training session must not be shorter than two weeks.

The Ministry of Education's second plan was to expand the scope of compulsory education, incorporating all immigrants who had not yet obtained citizenship into the fold of compulsory education as well.

Previously, Australasia's free education extended up to primary school, but it only included citizens who had acquired citizenship.

After the Ministry of Education's plan was implemented, immigrants who had not yet obtained citizenship would also be factored into it, until they either obtained citizenship or were deported.

Alongside compulsory education came literacy programs aimed at immigrant groups who had arrived in Australasia during different periods.

Compulsory education could ensure that the school-aged population entered schools and received the

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