Senior secondary education originally included senior middle schools (including comprehensive high schools), normal schools and senior vocational schools. Among them, there are not many normal schools, not exceeding 10. 1960 changed to normal college. At present, there are no normal schools in Taiwan Province Province. After the "national education" was changed to nine-year system, the original secondary education actually became high school education. At present, senior secondary education includes senior middle schools and senior vocational schools. Senior secondary education is 3 years in senior middle school or 3 years in senior vocational school. Ordinary senior high schools have developed rapidly, from less than 20,000 students in 1950 to nearly 200,000 students in 1972, an increase of nearly 10 times and a historical peak. Since then, due to the rapid development of advanced vocational schools adapted to economic development, the number of ordinary high schools and the number of students have been declining. By the school year of 2000, there were 357,000 high schools 175 (public 152, private 125) in Taiwan Province Province, with 357,000 students and more than 30,000 teachers. There are 188 senior vocational schools (95 public and 93 private) with 43,000 students and19,000 teachers.
Vocational education in Taiwan Province Province developed earlier. Some vocational schools were established as early as the Japanese occupation, but most of them were junior vocational schools. After the Kuomintang arrived in Taiwan, it began to vigorously develop and popularize vocational education, which was relatively successful and effectively met the demand of economic development for practical grassroots technical talents. Before the end of 1950s, Taiwan Province Province, with the main feature of adapting to the needs of agricultural economy, adopted the school-running policy of "mainly developing agricultural jobs, supplemented by industrial jobs", mainly developing primary vocational schools that recruited primary school graduates and trained only simple primary technical workers. In order to meet the demand of the developing processing and export industry for skilled manpower, Taiwan Province Province closed the junior vocational school of 1968 and vigorously developed various senior vocational schools and junior colleges. The main policy is to appropriately restrict the development of higher vocational education in senior high schools, encourage private investment in running schools, and increase a large number of specialized vocational schools. After decades of development, Taiwan Province Province has gradually formed a vocational and technical education system composed of senior vocational schools, junior colleges and technical colleges.
Among them, senior vocational schools (hereinafter referred to as higher vocational schools) mainly recruit junior high school graduates and train skilled basic technical talents (technicians) for a study period of 2 to 4 years. Vocational schools mainly focus on industry, agriculture, commerce, medical care, maritime affairs and family affairs. The college mainly teaches applied science and technology and trains practical professionals (technicians), which are divided into two years, three years and five years according to the length of study. College graduates can get a certificate equivalent to a college diploma. Topics include agriculture, industry, commerce, management, maritime affairs, teacher training, art, home economics, sports, news and so on. By the end of 1980s, the ratio of vocational school students to ordinary senior high school students had risen from 4: 6 in the mid-1960s to nearly 7: 3, among which engineering students accounted for more than half. Vocational education reached its peak in the early 1990s. 199 1 year has 2 12 vocational schools, and 1994 vocational schools have 5 15000 students.
In the late 1980s, Taiwan Province Province began to slow down the development of vocational schools, reducing the ratio of vocational schools to ordinary high schools to 6: 4 or 5: 5. Gradually reduce the number of five-year colleges and upgrade the three-year colleges to technical colleges or institutions of higher learning; Add a technical college in the industrial zone. Due to the economic transformation, the development of high-tech industries, the change of employment population structure, the demand for vocational education students decreased due to economic development, the employment difficulties of vocational school students, the proportion of high school students increased, and the number of people entering higher education increased significantly. The development speed of vocational schools has slowed down, and the number of vocational schools has continued to decline, from 1992 in 2000 to 188. Since 1995, the number of students in school has decreased to 427,000, and the number of teachers has also decreased to less than 20,000 for the first time.
According to the new 12 compulsory education plan, senior vocational middle schools will no longer be established since 2003, and the existing higher vocational schools will be developed into comprehensive high schools to promote the community development of high schools.
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