Technical colleges are 5 year institutions (five years and six
months in the Mercantile Technical Colleges) providing technical education to
lower secondary school graduates or the equivalents. Industrial Technical Colleges
were established in 1962, to meet the quantitative and qualitative shortage of
technicians caused by technological developments. In 1967, Mercantile Technical
Colleges were set up to train seamen with high level knowledge and skills to
meet the recent remarkable developments and modernization of marine transportation
in our country.
Trends in enrollment and in the number of colleges are as shown
in Table 15.
Table 15. Trends in Enrollment and in the Number of Technical
Colleges, 1962 -1969
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