A project by the Ministry of Education to implement 12-year compulsory education could be doomed because it is trying to please everybody, a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator said yesterday.
The
pioneering program, which aims to ease students’ burdens and ensure social
justice, appears to be fundamentally flawed as it neither eliminates the
examination-based school entry system nor the so-called “star schools,” six DPP
lawmakers on the legislature’s Education and Culture Committee said at a press
conference yesterday.
The
current plan, which is scheduled to be adopted in 2014, does not guarantee
-examination-free entry to high schools nor narrow the gap between students
from urban and rural areas or from different socioeconomic backgrounds, DPP
Legislator Lin Shu-fen (林淑芬) said.
Eliminating
the “star schools” is one of the most important goals of the reforms, DPP
Legislator Cheng Li-chiun (鄭麗君) said, adding that
students should be able to develop without heavy academic pressure.
Ironically,
all six lawmakers attended “star high schools.”
“We’ve
been through it all, living under the pressure and parents’ expectation. And
that is why we say the old system must be abandoned and examination-based education
should become a thing of the past,” Cheng said.
From
the ministry’s NT$28.8 billion (US$986.2 million) budget for the program this
year, 65 percent is allocated for tuition subsidies and only NT$3.87 billion
would be spent on the homogenization of high schools across the nation, DPP
Legislator Chiu Chih-wei (邱志偉) said.
While
an experimental test-free entry mechanism will be implemented, the new system
creates even more competition for students, DPP Legislator Ho Hsin-chun (何欣純) said, because students would
have to be ranked using as many as 15 categories in order for schools could
trim applicant numbers.
Questions:
1. What's
the new project of Ministry of Education? What are its goals?
2. Why
is it flawed according to DPP?
3. What
is the current educational system in Taiwan
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