Education in Chinese Taipei
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Overview
Located in Asia, Chinese Taipei's education system offers compulsory education from grades one through nine with two years of pre-school and three years of secondary education available.
Currently, the educational system in Chinese Taipei is structured so that students are capable of twenty-two years of formal education.
The system includes two years of preschool education, six years of primary schooling, three years of junior high school, two years of senior high school, four to seven years of college or university, one to four years of a graduate school program, and two to seven years of a doctoral degree program.
Chinese Taipei has chosen to incorporate three main approaches to the implementation of their motto: "Creative Taiwan, Eye on the World," including:
- Adaptability in nature and ability
- Embracing globalization
- Supporting the disadvantaged
Primary and Secondary Education
The Ministry of Education put a ten-year trial compulsory education program in place. This program was designed to blend the curricula from junior and senior high schools in order to give students interested in a program in vocational training a chance to begin it in their last year of junior high school.
After a student completes junior high school they are capable of attending either a senior high school or a senior vocational school. Each of these institutions takes three years to complete. Senior vocational schools have classes on topics such as agriculture, industry, business, medicine, home economics, drama and art.
Higher Education
Following senior high school students can attend junior college or a university.
Junior colleges have either five-year programs or two-year programs. In order to be admitted to a five-year program, applicants must be junior high school graduates. To be admitted to a two-year program, applicants must be senior vocational high school graduates.
If students choose to enter teacher training, they have two categories to choose from. The first category contains programs for training teachers of secondary education and the second trains teachers of primary and kindergarten education.
University undergraduate programs in Chinese Taipei require four years of study. Students who cannot fulfill the requirements in this time may be granted up to two years of an extension period. Some undergraduate programs such as medicine require six or seven years.
Graduate programs require additional study. Masters degrees require one to fours years and doctoral degrees require two to seven years. Students can be granted extensions in order to finish their course requirements and theses/dissertations.
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