Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers yesterday proposed amending the Primary and Junior High School Act (國民教育法) to have compulsory education begin at age five.
The Legislative Yuan’s Education and Culture Committee discussed the proposal and asked the Ministry of Education to deal with the matter.
KMT Legislator Wan Mei-ling (萬美玲) and 26 others said in their proposal that the enrollment rate of five-year-old children was 96.67 percent during the 2020-2021 academic year, indicating the nation’s readiness to accept that children of that age should receive mandatory education.
KMT Legislator Cheng Cheng-chien (鄭正鈐) proposed expanding the system to include all children aged three and
The nation’s student population dropped to a new low of 4.17 million in the 2021 school year, 41,000 fewer than the previous school year, while the number of elementary schools with fewer than 100 students has reached a record 1,191, the latest Ministry of Education data showed.
The latest figure represented a drop of 332,000 students from the 2016 school year, the data showed.
Elementary-school students made up the largest group with 1.19 million, followed by vocational high-school students with 1.18 million.
Preschoolers, and junior-high school and high-school students accounted for a total of 1.74 million, the data showed.
The nation’s student population fell
ONGOING TREND: The number of students across all levels of education dropped over the past five years, except preschoolers, whose ranks swelled by 89,000 childrenBy Rachel Lin and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
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