On how the declines in birthrate affects the whole academia of higher education, helping the students select what fitted them best! From the Newspapers, translated…
The Department of Education posted the 2017 average rate of freshmen registration awhile ago, there were over ninety-percent from the public universities, higher than the seventy-eight percent of private institutions. There’s this lacking of 57,000 freshmen in the private universities, almost five times higher than the lacking of students registering in the public universities. The second to the head of the Department of Education, Yao pointed out yesterday, that each and every year, the Department of Education had reduced the criteria for college entrance, but the lacking of registration still increased, reason being that the reduced guidelines won’t catch up to the rate of birthrate decline.
Based off of the statistics conducted by the Department of Education, in 2017, there were 380,000 students that the colleges called out for, with the rate of freshmen registration being 311,000, the rate of registration was eighty-two. There were 157 colleges and universities across Taiwan, with forty-three schools, not making the lowest registration rate of seventy-percent, including one public, and forty-two private schools, and, of these, thirty-four were community colleges.
Yao believed, that the sole cause of this decline is due to the reduced birthrate. The Department of Education had reduced the number of the students registering, but, the reduction of number of students set by the Department of Education still wasn’t as fast as the rate of declined birth; plus a lot of parents held tightly to the traditional values of sending their young to traditional university is way better than enrolling them into technical colleges, and would encourage their young to sign up for the universities. He’d reminded the parents, that each child has a different way of learning, that they should allow the children to select what best fitted them, for instance, those who enjoyed learning the theories can select the traditional universities, but those who preferred the hands-on should consider the technical universities instead.
Yao also said, that the private colleges have a lower registration rate compared to the public universities because the public universities has a lower tuition, but it doesn’t mean that the private institutions lacked competitiveness. In recent years, the private enterprises did a comparison, a lot of the private universities came out on top, the key lies in how the schools were very disciplined, and that after the students graduated, they set a high bar, include Fengjia, Fujen, Zhongyuan universities; and the technical universities also performed well, including Chiao-Yang Technical University, Kun-Shan Technical University, and Zhen-Sho Technical University, they’d all gotten good records too.
Yao said, that after students graduated out of middle school, they faced the very first selection, to either enter into the academic track of education, or to take occupational courses from the technical high schools, the parents should observe the children when they are in middle school, to get to know what their children preferred. And if after they’d enrolled into the high school programs, they found that what they’d studied in didn’t fit, then, they will be allowed to change their selections three years later, currently, the system opened up the slots for the high school students to pass the skills exams, for entering into colleges, and the technical high school students can also take the regular exams to apply for the regular universities.
And so, this is a system of choices, to see how your child learns best, because the regular track of traditional universities focuses on the theories, while the technical universities are more focused on the hands-on trainings, and each one has its pros and cons, it all depends on how your child is receptive, to what kind of style of learning…
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