Gyeonggi Office of Education Promotes Restructuring of Future Education in Vocational High Schools

The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education is promoting the restructuring of future education in vocational high schools within the province.

On the 27th, the Office of Education announced a future education restructuring project plan at Bucheon Technical High School, focusing on ▲promoting appropriate scale and consolidation of vocational high schools due to declining school-age population and industrial changes ▲supporting diverse career planning for vocational high school graduates ▲implementing the nation’s first policy project to transform schools into future-oriented vocational education model schools through regional and school-level restructuring.

The future education restructuring project will span seven years from 2024 to 2030, converting the current 108 vocational high schools into 70 future-oriented vocational education model schools.

The future-oriented vocational high school model schools include ▲High-tech Specialized High Schools (contract departments operated to cultivate professionals through restructuring departments at the school level in new industry fields) ▲Converged Specialized High Schools (schools that support vocational education demand in adjacent areas through type conversion and school consolidation by integrating major departments) ▲Region-linked Win-win Specialized High Schools (schools focusing on traditional departments to nurture manpower for national foundational industries, root industries, and regionally specialized industries) ▲Blended Specialized High Schools (schools operating online-centered theoretical education alongside offline-centered practical training) ▲Global Specialized High Schools (schools operating international exchange and global competency curricula within the educational program and supporting employment at global companies).

Gyeonggi Provincial Superintendent of Education Lim Tae-hee visited Bucheon Technical High School on the 27th and shook hands with students after announcing the "Vocational High School Future Education Restructuring Plan."

Lim Tae-hee, Superintendent of Gyeonggi Education, stated, "Vocational high schools are facing difficulties due to the declining school-age population and the advancement of high-tech industries," and emphasized, "Now, we will completely reorganize Gyeonggi-do’s vocational high schools into the nation’s first employment and entrepreneurship-oriented specialized schools to open a second heyday for vocational high schools."

He continued, "By establishing an Employment and Entrepreneurship Competency Development Center, industry sites, schools, research institutes, and government (industry-academia-research-government) will unite to support vocational high school students," and promised, "We will strive to ensure that vocational high school graduates stand at the center of national industrial competitiveness."

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