Education sector is too top-heavyBy Dino Wei 魏世昌The number of senior high-school students fell from 350,000 in 2012 to 290,000 in 2021, while the number of vocational high-school students fell from 460,000 to 260,000, Ministry of Education data showed. The percentage of high-school students attending vocational high schools fell from 56.99 percent to 47.3 percent, so that they were outnumbered by high-school students. Alliance Cultural Foundation International chairman Stanley Yen (嚴長壽) said that the structure of Taiwan’s education system has become imbalanced. A normal workforce structure should be a pyramid, with basic and middle-grade technical workers making up the majority. However, Taiwan’s education sector has created a top-heavy inverted pyramid by supplying fewer basic and middle-grade technical workers, but plenty of upper-management talent.
