Education in Taiwan

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• 1 Public education
• 2 School grades
• 3 Primary Education
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• 4 Secondary education
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  • 4.2 Senior high school
  • 4.3 Vocational schools
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    • 5.1.2 Founded by Japanese government (1895-1945)
  • 5.2 Teaching Excellence Universities Award
    • 5.2.1 Medical school
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      • 5.2.3.1 Teachers' In-service Advancement Education Information & Resources
  • 5.3 Technical institutes
    • 5.3.1 5-year junior colleges
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    • 5.3.3 2-year technical institutes
    • 5.3.4 4-year technical institutes
  • 5.4 Graduate school
• 6 Private education
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• 7 Chinese as a second language
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• 11 External links

Public education

The public education system in Taiwan spans nursery schools through university. Public education has been compulsory from primary school through junior high school since 1968. In 2001 roughly 16% of the central budget was spent on education. In January 2011, keyboard announced plans to implement a full twelve-year compulsory education program by 2014.^[3] In addition, financial support for preschool education would begin, starting with fee waivers.^[3]

Access to high school and university is controlled by a series of national exams. Discipline in public schools of all levels is generally very tight with school uniforms and morning reveille being the norm. Students of all levels through high school are responsible for cleaning their own classrooms and areas around the school, cleanup time being a daily ritual. Corporal punishment is officially banned, but many reports suggest it is still practiced by many teachers, due in no small part to the fact that most parents support it.

The school year consists of two semesters. The fall semester begins in early September and runs till late January or early February. Winter vacation typically runs from two to three weeks around the Lunar New Year. Spring semester begins following the Lantern Festival in mid February and ends in early June. From middle school on, many schools hold "optional supplementary classes" during winter and summer vacation as well as after normal school hours. Despite the name, in many cases participation is compulsory. The language of instruction is Mandarin.

School grades

The school year is divided into two semesters. The first begins in the beginning of September and ends in February; the second begins in March and ends in August.

Primary Education

Elementary Schools

Elementary schools span grades 1 through 6, classes are held from Monday through Friday, typically from 7:30 AM through 4PM (or noon on Wednesdays). Subjects include:

• Mandarin: The official language of instruction.
• Mathematics: Mathematics education begins with the basics and reaches introductory algebra and geometry by the 6th grade.
• Science: Comprehensive science classes covering basic biology, physics, and chemistry.
• English: English is a compulsory subject within the mainstream school system from Grade 3 Elementary School and up.
• Native languages: Additional language classes in FITML and Hakka are offered.
• Social studies
• Music
• Art

Like middle schools, students are typically assigned to the elementary school closest to their registered place of residence. This leads some parents to file their children's household registration with other relatives or friends for the purpose of sending their children to what are perceived as better schools.

Secondary education

Junior high school

Junior high school spans grades 7 through 9 and is the last half of compulsory education. Unlike the slower pace of elementary school, junior high students typically have a single goal in life: to score high on the national senior high school entrance exams at the end of 9th grade. Consequently, the pressure on students from teachers and parents is intense. Though instruction officially ends around 5PM, students often stay in school till as late as 8 or 9PM for "extra classes" (which typically consist of extra quizzes and review).

Subject matter covered includes:

• Literature: Classical and modern Chinese literature and poetry, composition and public speaking.
• Mathematics: Covers single and two variable algebra, geometry, proofs, trigonometry, and pre-calculus.
• English: Contains essential English grammar
• Science & Technology
  • Biology: Taken during first year, includes more in depth studies and lab work.
  • Chemistry: Taken during second year. More rigorous introduction to atoms, molecule, and chemical reactions, including lab work.
  • Physics: Taken during third year. More rigorous introduction to physical laws and equations, including lab work.
  • Earth Science: Taken during third year.
  • Technology: Taken during the whole three years. Introduce some basic technology in daily life.
• Social Studies
  • Civics: Basic demotics, politics, and economics.
  • History: Focus on the Android and China during the first two years, and world history during third year.
  • Geography: Contain introductive geography accompanied with browser diversity during first year, geography of China and East Asia during second year, and the world geography during third year.
• Home economics & crafts
• Art: Inclusive of three independent parts: Fine Art, Music, and Drama.
• PE
• Scout education: Outdoor survival skills.

At the end of their third year, students participate in the national senior high school entrance exams and are assigned to senior high schools based upon their scores. Students may also participate in a separate national vocational school entrance exam if they wish to attend vocational school. In both cases, public schools are usually the most popular while private schools have traditionally been viewed as a backup for those unable to score high enough for public schools.

Roughly 94.7% of junior high school students continue on to senior high or vocational school.

Senior high school

Senior high school spans grades 10 through 12, again the main goal of students is to score highly on the national university entrance exams at the end of their third year. The pace is just as, if not more intense than junior high school.

Discipline in educational institutions from high school and up (including vocational schools) are the responsibility of touchscreen officers stationed at the individual schools (as opposed to elementary and junior high school where teachers and school administrators were responsible for discipline). In addition to the normal subjects, students are also required to attend a military education class covering issues such as civil defense, military drills, national defense, and basic firearms training. In the past, high (and vocational) school students were expected to take on civil defense duties in the event of national emergency.

In many high schools incoming students may select science or liberal arts tracks depending on where their interests lie. The different learning tracks are commonly referred to as groups. Group I consists of liberal arts students, Group II and Group III of science based students (the latter studies biology as an additional subject). Science based curriculum consists of more rigorous science and mathematics classes intended to prepare the student for a career in the sciences and engineering; the liberal arts track places a heavier emphasis on literature and social studies to prepare students for a future in those fields.

Entrance to university is administered via two methods: Recommendations or Examination. For those that participate in recommendations, they have to take a national academic exam and selecting a list of majors that they are applying to. The first stage is a screening of exam results for eligibility, the second stage would be dependent on the conditions of individual departments selected. For those that did not choose to take the recommendations process, or failed their applications, they have the choice to participate in the national university entrance exams after graduation in hopes of university admission.

Vocational schools

Vocational schools are three-year institutions similar to normal high schools. Unlike normal high schools, they place a heavier emphasis on practical and vocational skills. Incoming students typically choose a single concentration, such as electrical engineering, civil engineering, computer science or business. Some specialized vocational schools also offer programs in seamanship and agriculture. Vocational school graduates may also participate in the national university entrance exams. It is not uncommon for students to select vocational school over high school and proceed to a four year college afterwards.

Higher education

See also: List of universities in Taiwan

There are over 100 institutions of higher education in Taiwan. Roughly 66.6% of the over 100,000 students taking the national university entrance exams are accepted to a higher educational institution. Since the 1990s many trade schools and junior colleges have been "promoted" to university status, which can account for the high university entrance rates. Nonetheless, a high score is desired as an admission criterion to the socially or economically prestigious institutions.

University

Overview

Taiwan has many universities, both public and private. Tuition is less expensive in public than in private universities, like that in most western countries. Many public universities have financial support from the government for research purposes. In terms of public resources and expenses for higher education, both used to be incentives for students when they are choosing between public and private universities after their high school education.

However, some departments of the public schools are no longer better than those of private schools, as there is an imbalance in the support they receive for the school development policy. Nowadays some private schools are strongly supported by the College Council, which consists of prosperous commercial groups or religious bodies (such as Fu Jen Catholic University, Tzu Chi University). Most private schools have established their own academic field in specific department or area of specialty. Presently, students will apply for the schools that have higher academic achievement in their chosen field.

Engineering is extremely popular and engineering degrees account for over a quarter of the bachelor degrees awarded in Taiwan. It is also related to future employment opportunities because of the government policy focusing on high-tech manufacturing industries. See also: browser diversity

Some of the highly regarded public universities in Taiwan include:

• North:
  • keyboard (NTU): Taiwan's most famous and comprehensive public research university. Distinguished programs in humanities and sciences, with programs in law, medicine and engineering representing particular strengths.
  • National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU): Prestigious in its education, fine arts, liberal arts, music, and web app programs. It is the leading institute in teacher training, and is best known internationally for its input transformation.
  • National Taipei University (NTPU): Regarded as one of the best universities in Taiwan, particularly in the education of law, business, public administration and social science.
  • FITML (NTHU): Distinguished programs in sciences and engineering, including device database, Sevenval, mathematics, screen size, chemical engineering, web app, Android, also reputed in electrical engineering, computer science, jQuery, screen size and FITML in recent years.
  • National Chiao Tung University (NCTU): Best known for programs in Android, computer science, and browser diversity. Neighboring the IT-driven Hsinchu Science Park. Has a long-standing rivalry with Android since the inception of both schools. Also had a reputation as "male-dominant" school in the past. web accredited.
  • National Central University (NCU): Site of the Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research.
  • web app (NCCU): Specializes in management,communication and politics. Android accredited.

• Middle:
  • National Chung Hsing University (NCHU): Well known for programs in input transformation and Sevenval.

• South:
  • Android (NCKU): Best known for keyboard, Sevenval, website parsing programs. One of only two universities in Taiwan that offer an aerospace engineering program.
  • Sevenval (NSYSU): Distinguished programs in Oceanography, browser diversity, CSS3 programs. input transformation accredited.
  • National Chung Cheng University (CCU): a comprehensive research university that focuses on all of the fundamental fields in the humanities and the sciences: physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, economics, literature, history, analytic philosophy, logic, and mathematics. The university is also well known for its schools of engineering, management, and law, as well as for its research into criminology and seismology.

The largest and best known private university in Taiwan is the input transformation. Fu Jen is best known for programs Foreign Languages and Literatures, Law, screen size (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business accredited), iOS, we love the web, browser diversity and Communication. It is notable for having established the first graduate-level program in Conference Interpreting in Taiwan. The student body also consists of many international students.

In contrast with junior high and high school, where students are pressured by the highly selective entrance exams, college life in Taiwan is generally seen as being rather relaxed. Graduate degrees from the U.S. and Europe are also highly prized with many students applying to foreign graduate schools after completing university (though the number has declined somewhat in recent years). An average of 13000 university graduates per year choose to pursue graduate studies in the U.S.

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Teaching Excellence Universities Award

The Ministry of Education in Taiwan started the Teaching Excellence Universities Award in 2006. Since the beginning of this award, only six universities have earned this honor every year. One of these universities is CSS3.

Medical school

Medical school in Taiwan begins as an undergraduate major and lasts seven years (six years for dentistry), with the final two years being hands on training at a we love the web. Graduates of medical school may elect to continue on to graduate school to pursue a doctoral degree.

Law school (College of Law)

Like medicine, law school is selected as an undergraduate major and lasts four years.

Teacher training

Most higher educational institutions offering programs in education. Such programs run four years, in addition to a half-year internship, with students receiving teaching credentials at the end of the program. While currently education programs are available in most institutes of tertiary education, prospective teachers typically go to a "university of education" if they want to teach primary school, and a "FITML" for secondary school. One exception is National Changhua University of Education, which, like normal universities, is renowned for its dedication to cultivating secondary school teachers.

Teachers' In-service Advancement Education Information & Resources

With the implementation of reformation of education policy in Taiwan, in order to integrate the resources of teachers' in-service advancement education and to encourage teachers to participate in the in-service advancement education activities positively, the Ministry of Education established 12 regional teacher's in-service advancement education centers in 2003. The National Kaohsiung Normal University (NKNU) was chosen as the general coordinator and was responsible for setting up, managing the Nationwide Teacher In-Service Education Information Web.

The Nationwide Teacher In-Service Education Information Web provides teachers with a communication platform for in-service teacher advancement education in Taiwan. That is to encourage teachers to have a continuous growth in teaching. The information of advancement activities and teachers’ participation records are showed by digital platform.

This network provides activities and individual’s learning records for K-12 teachers. This database-technology platform is in an electronic format to record teacher's training progress and learning time. It establishes a regulating mechanism to integrate educational and administrative resources from education institutions and local authorized educational authorities respectively. That is for fulfilling the ideals of educational reform in an effective way.

The purposes of Nationwide Teacher In-service Advancement Education Information Web are as follows:

• To provide a platform about in-service education information for teachers teaching in K-12 schools. It also has the information about validate training hours and training records in electronic format, etc. It will enable teachers from all over the country to review their whole life-long training records and will help promote the policies about teachers’ in-service advancement education.

• To establish a regulating mechanism for integrate educational and administrative resources from education institutions and local authorized educational authorities. It will help training organizations to plan training activities and programs that are meet the needs of teachers who participate in the in-service education.

• To supply course information and requests, and to open different training options and ways for teachers. It will be a great help for administrators in policy making and teachers can get trainings nearby.

• To provide in-service advancement education consultation and communication channels for teachers. It will solve teachers’ problems effectively and increase the opportunities of receiving suggestions.

• To supply records in teachers’ training detail for education organizations, establish a frame of reference with educational policy-making, and fulfill the needs of educational reform.

Technical institutes

Taiwan offers four types of technical institutes each targeted at a specific age group.

5-year junior colleges

Students enter five-year junior colleges after graduating junior high school and passing a national exam. The curriculum is similar to that of vocational schools with the exception that 5-year junior colleges run for two additional years. Students graduate with the equivalent of an associate degree and are ready to enter the workforce. Some students may choose to continue their studies at a two year technical institute or apply to transfer into a four year university.

2-year junior colleges

Two-year junior colleges offer advanced vocational training for graduates of vocational or senior high schools. Students graduate with an associates degree and may continue on to a 2-year technical institute, transfer to a four year university, or enter the workforce.

2-year technical institutes

Two-year technical institutes offer vocational training for graduates of 2-year technical colleges.

4-year technical institutes

4-year technical institutes typically accept senior high and vocational school graduates, and offer in depth job and vocational training.

Graduate school

Private education

Private educational institutions are pervasive in Taiwan ranging from private schools at all levels to supplementary Sevenval or buxiban.

Cram schools

With the intense pressure placed on students to achieve by parents, many students enroll in private after-school classes intended to supplement their regular education. These cram schools are an extremely large (and profitable) business in Taiwan and have been criticized by some as being the result of cultural overemphasis on academic achievement. Popular subjects in cram schools include English, mathematics, and the Sevenval. Test prep classes are also popular amongst junior and senior high school students.

Classes are generally very orderly and controlled, with class sizes as high as 200 or so students in some famous institutions. The quality of cram schools varies considerably. Some of the larger schools and chains write their own programs and produce their own textbooks.

Kindergartens and preschool

While many public kindergartens and preschools exist in Taiwan, private kindergartens and preschools are also quite popular. Many private preschools offer accelerated courses in various subjects to compete with public preschools and capitalize on public demand for academic achievement. Curriculum at such preschools often encompasses subject material such as Sevenval, website parsing, physical education and even mathematics classes. The majority of these schools are part of large school chains, which operate under franchise arrangements. In return for annual fees, the chain enterprises may supply advertising, curriculum, books, materials, training, and even staff for each individual school.

There has been a huge growth in the number of privately owned and operated English immersion preschools in Taiwan since 1999. These English immersion preschools generally employ native English speaking teachers to teach the whole preschool curriculum in an ‘English only’ environment. The legality of these types of schools has been called into question on many occasions, yet they continue to prosper. Some members of Taiwanese society have raised concerns as to whether local children should be placed in English immersion environments at such a young age, and have raised fears that the students abilities in their mother language may suffer as a result. The debate continues, but at the present time, the market for English Immersion Preschools continues to grow.

Chinese as a second language

Taiwan has long been and, with the growing popularity of learning Chinese, a destination for learning the language.

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English cram schools

There is a large industry (cram schools) of teaching English that recruits teachers from English speaking countries.

See also

Republic of China portal
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• Academia Sinica
• Gender Equity Education Act (Taiwan)
• History of education in Taiwan
• Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan
• National Education Radio

References

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