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Taiwan’s Important Education Indicators 61
Taiwan’s Important Education Indicators
LEE, Chien-sing, LU, Chen-wei
Abstract
Education has been greatly improved in the Republic of China on Taiwan over the past
60 years. Schools at all levels have been increased, making elementary education universal
and qualitatively enhancing secondary and higher education. Improvement has been
achieved in three stages, each lasting about a score of years. In the first stage, from 1950 to
1970, elementary education was made universal. The next stage saw secondary education
popularized from 1971 to 1990. Higher education was made popular between 1991 and
2008 in the third stage.
This study analyzes Taiwan’s development of education and compares it with the experiences
in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, the People’s
Republic of China, Japan, and South Korea.