The Eastern Academy is built upon the foundation of seven existing technical colleges from the Hundred Schools Plateau, with the curriculum extended from the former duration of several months to a year and a half, now ranging from two and a half to three years.
"My thought is, we basic professionals need a pathway for advancement as well. Currently, both the Eastern and Western continents lack such a mechanism or educational cultivation method."
Zhou Yi explained to Lord Dominator, "For example, the most common farmers; we presently only have ordinary farmers and experienced senior farmers. This categorization is not intuitive or detailed enough. Mechanical life forms have a professional capability rating system, but the standards are specifically established for mechanical beings."
"We need more popularized standards that everyone can understand and trust, allowing advanced professionals to embody a higher level of expertise, meeting the demands for a high-quality life and production."
Lord Dominator understood, "You're proposing an independent professional rating system for biological life, to be promoted through our Eastern Academy?"
Zhou Yi continued, "Nowadays, the world is developing rapidly, and the refinement and segmentation of industries and professions will continue. The Legal Front has already issued a strategic transformation announcement to promote the mechanical group towards industrialization, large-scale production, and high-precision advancement, rather than the previous mode of cross-competition for positions with humans and Guangna Species..."
This grand strategy is known as the "Three Upgrades."
The Legal Front had early individual discussions with Zhou Yi regarding these matters.
The advantage of mechanical life is their efficiency and precision.
In the past, the expensive energy costs made it impossible for cities to bear the rigid expenses of mechanical beings, forcing them to fend for themselves according to a market economy unique to mechanical life.
But things have changed now.
After the Legal Front teamed up with companies, they first installed Floating Hearts to drastically reduce energy expenses.
For many unemployed and impoverished mechanical beings, this was virtually a revival opportunity.
With the inclusion of Mars and Moon development, the Legal Front secured enough cheap and abundant energy sources. These energies sourced from Circular Flow and cosmic rays collected by mantle bacteria, are almost infinite to mechanical life at present.
The objective conditions have been met for the transformation of the mechanical group.
The Legal Front had long been planning and simulating, completely reversing the previous free market economy system into a planned economy mode.
Mechanical Cities will allocate labor for every city resident. Based on city needs and positioning, residents can choose to become professionals in various industries or adjust to work in other cities according to their own needs.
Production and construction in each field will be uniformly scheduled by the cities, producing as much as needed, avoiding excessive product surplus and large individual asset disparities, and concentrating the labor force of mechanical life into the broader city directions, which is the essence of the "Three Upgrades."
Due to its inherent characteristics, mechanical life finds planned economies to be the most efficient.
The past problem was cities' inability to ensure the survival of every resident.
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The Three Upgrades are an upgrade and transformation, and in specific research and production fields such as "Cultivation," "Atmospheric Transformation," and "Heavenly Silicon-based Gemstone Technology," many mechanical beings are needed to participate.
In this way, a large number of mechanical life exit the employment market, focusing on their respective fields of expertise, thereby opening up many mid to high-end professional positions.
Ordinary people now have opportunities.
This is also a favorable premise for establishing the Eastern Academy.
The academy's recruitment is still primarily human-oriented, as humans excel in using tools effectively combined with imagination.
In social division of labor, through professional capability ratings, achieving appropriate treatment and social recognition aligns with their more accustomed lifestyle, one where they can best utilize their abilities.
Lord Dominator also agreed, "Advanced professionals will undergo professional qualification certification by the Eastern Academy, backed by companies and receiving data and evaluation framework from the Legal Front. Acceptance will never be lacking."
"Rating professional capabilities according to E-A is also customary."
"There's just one small problem."
"Mr. Zhou, the Hundred Schools Plateau has been deeply involved in technical training for many years. According to our research here, even if these mid to high-end professional positions are released, they are likely to be taken by local graduates due to local protection and conservative principles. In the short term, our Eastern Academy graduates may lack direct competitiveness."
Zhou Yi had already planned for this, "No need to worry. I intend to follow the approach used by Mushroom Forest Primary School, offering opportunities to outstanding graduates of the Eastern Academy annually for early talent recruitment."
"We will collaborate with the Development Alliance and partners such as Yin Shang Company, Shenwei Company, and Dead Sea Railway Company to conduct internal recruitment for Eastern Academy graduates."
"Every year, the Wasteland Development Company will recruit at least five outstanding graduates from the Eastern Academy based on their scores to work in various departments and their subordinate units. Other parties will recruit a number based on their needs, but it will not be fewer than one person per entity."
Lord Dominator was greatly pleased, "In this way, there is no problem at all! Entering a professional technical school is all about securing a good job, which undoubtedly has strong appeal!"
Zhou Yi smiled slightly, "This is merely the first step."