To study large-scale investigation of the state of technical high school Tokyo Metropolitan Educational Commission August 9 12:24

The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education conducted the first large-scale survey to ask companies and junior high school students about the needs of industrial high schools. I decided to consider how it should be.

At the Tokyo Metropolitan Technical High School, the number of applicants who took the entrance examination this year was less than the number of applicants, and it became an unusual situation where 12 out of 16 full-time schools were recruiting third. Still, students did not gather and 260 vacancies came out.

This seems to be due to the fact that there is an increasing number of career options in addition to the fact that the ordinary course orientation continues, as well as the fact that private high school tuition fees are substantially free of charge. Securing is becoming increasingly severe.

Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education, the Technical High School of these Metropolitan, in order to consider the future of the way, the prospect of the fall of this year, we will be performing for the first time a large-scale needs assessment that specializes in technical high schools.

The survey asked about 12,500 companies in Tokyo about the contents of education that should be emphasized in the technical high school in the future, as well as 3700 public junior high school students and their parents, each entering the technical high school I want to find out what is necessary to get selected.

Board of Education of the city is, summarizes the interim report of the investigation to the prospect of the end of the year, the field and educational content to be established in Technical High School, it such as the proper placement has decided to proceed with the investigation.

Technical high school scene that is in danger

Tokyo Metropolitan Technical High School is focusing on PR activities for the entrance examination next year, as the number of applicants for admission is decreasing.

Of these, Tokyo Metropolitan Tanashi Technical High School in Nishitokyo City, whose application rate was 1.07 times in this year's entrance examination, barely exceeded the capacity, but has become more sensitive to securing students.

The school council held on the 4th of this month during the summer vacation for the next year's entrance exam will be difficult for people to gather at technical high schools alone. As a first attempt, we will hold a counseling meeting with a nearby ordinary high school. It was.

On this day, about 150 junior high school students and their guardians visited the conference to promote the fact that active students from technical high schools have various qualifications and that the job placement rate is 100%, which is advantageous for employment. It was.

Tanashi Technical High School head Tadanori Hayakawa said, “Students don't gather because of life and death, and they have a tremendous sense of danger. Technical high schools are an important place for nurturing human resources that support Japanese manufacturing, so good school life at technical high schools I would like to put more emphasis on recruitment measures than ever, such as explaining carefully that I can be sent. "

Companies seek human resources from technical high school

While the number of applicants for admission to the Tokyo Metropolitan Technical High School is decreasing, there is a voice among companies in the Tokyo that expects people who graduate from high school and find employment as the labor shortage becomes more serious.

As of the end of March, there were 53,729 job seekers targeting high school graduates in Tokyo, more than eight times the number of high school students who wanted to work after graduation.

Among them, the machine parts manufacturer in Ota-ku, Tokyo has 6 employees in their 60s or more out of 20 employees, and it is said that the challenge is to convey the manufacturing technology to the younger generation. .

This company is looking for a job to Hello Work in order to get a younger generation to join the company, but it has high expectations for technical high schools because it is difficult to gather people.

Eiichi Seki, president of the Kanko Works, said, “Since I think I attend an industrial high school with an interest in manufacturing, the students at an industrial high school are the people I want for the company. It is necessary to develop human resources who can make judgments and have their own ideas. "