What are they doing?
Young people
Sheila
and May are busy making the orders for their clients on the internet.
Both of them have more regular customers, who are students. Therefore,
they're always required to know what those students are looking for in their
web store, especially university students or senior-high-school students.
Sheila:
The so-called tech-savvy generation usually boast in their own blogs.
Being bookish is not popular among young students.
May:
I agree with what you said. Students of different levels do selfie almost
everywhere to share their photos online with friends, acquaintances, or even
those they even don’t know. They might have both a cell phone and a phablet.
Sheila:
They also enjoy texting or emailing with an emoji to express their
feelings. I admit an emoticon smiley face is always a welcome.
Sheila: Do
you think it’s possible to forbid teenage students to fall in love
at coeducational high schools? You know we were not allowed to, but what
about students of nowadays?
May:
Now? I don’t think so. But I do know students have banned smoking on
campus, and enforcement hasn’t been lax especially in high schools.
Sheila:
Men are required to have a more than a year military service at the age of 18
if they stop schooling. Do you think they will learn self-discipline and
something else after they complete their army service?
May:
It depends. For example, some graduates of university or above, according to
their specialty, might apply to get a position of military attach instead
of serving in the army.
Sheila:
Talking about university, we should be lucky to run our own business. One of my
best friends is a full time college teacher. She said she is now required to
dedicate the time not only to teaching, helping administrative work but doing
research and cooperating with industrial fields to equip students with some
skills for their future job hunting.
May: No way! You must be kidding.
Education in Taiwan
Education has been universally available for women and men at the compulsory level since 1945 after World War II when the Kuomintang took over Taiwan (Lin and Hsieh, 1993).
The Constitution of 1947 made special provision for free and compulsory primary school education. In 1968, a Nine-year Basic Education Plan extended free education to the end of junior high school. Nine years of schooling is now compulsory as well as free. Currently, more than 90 percent of the population is literate and roughly 25 percent is engaged in some form of education or vocational training (The Republic of China Yearbook, 1996).
Taiwan’s education system is highly centralized. The Ministry of Education is part of the Executive Yuan (Cabinet). The Executive Yuan is the most powerful executive body and carries out government decisions and laws made by the Legislature. The Government, through the Ministry of Education, exercises considerable control over tuition, curriculum, and establishment of new programs.
In general, the Ministry of Education controls national and private schools, colleges, and universities. An important element in this achievement has been strong central planning, harnessing traditional enthusiasm for education and directing it according to perceived national development needs. It is the Ministry of Education which approves the numbers of students in each department at every university.
The Ministry of Education is continuing the policy established in 1993 of gradually reducing class sizes for all schools to 40 pupils or less by the year of 1998 (The Republic of China Yearbook, 1996). In 2014, the Ministry of Education put the 12-year basic education system into action even in doubt about the lack of consideration in the eyes of the public.
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