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Taiwan’s Important Education Indicators 69
Secondary Education
Secondary education offers three years of schooling
to junior high school graduates. It is enforced in
senior high schools, vocational high schools, and comprehensive
senior high schools. Students are aged 16 to
18.
Senior high schools prepare junior high school
graduates for higher education. There were 62 senior
high schools with a combined enrollment of 18,866
students in Taiwan in 1950. The number of schools increased
to 320 and the student population reached
414,557 in 2007. Students were divided 55 percent to
45 percent between senior high and vocational high
schools. Of the schools 67.2 percent were senior high
schools and the 32 percent, vocational high schools.
(See Table 10.)
Table 10. Secondary Education and Student Population
Unit:%
School
Year
Ratio of
Sr. High to Vocational
Schools
Ratio of
Sr. High to Vocational School
Students
Ratio of
Sr. High to Vocational School
Students
(including Jr. Coll. Students in the First
Three Years)
Senior High Vocational Senior High Vocational Senior High Vocational
1976 52.3 47.7 38.0 62.0 34.0 66.0
1981 47.9 52.1 32.8 67.2 28.7 71.3
1986 46.2 53.8 31.4 68.6 27.4 72.6
1991 45.5 54.5 31.4 68.6 27.0 73.0
1996 51.5 48.5 34.0 66.0 29.6 70.4
2001 62.4 37.6 49.5 50.5 44.0 56.0
2004 65.8 34.2 55.7 44.3 51.7 48.3
2005 66.7 33.3 55.9 44.1 52.3 47.7
2006 67.1 32.9 55.5 44.5 52.1 47.9
2007 67.2 32.8 55.0 45.0 51.4 48.6
Source: Department of Statistics, Ministry of Education, 2008b, p.35.
Senior vocational schools are career-oriented,
preparing junior high school graduates for work.
There were 77 senior vocational schools with a combined
enrollment of 34,437 students in Taiwan in 1950.
The number of schools rose to 156 and the student
population reached 339,497 in 2007. A 43.48 percent
plurality of the vocational school student population
took business courses, followed by 41.22 percent enrolled
in polytechnic courses. Those studying home
economics and agriculture represented 9.83 percent and
2.83 percent, respectively, with the remaining 2.64 percent
made up by others enrolled in industrial art and
maritime service courses.