b. Vocational Supplementary Schools, Apprentice Schools, and Simplified Agricultural Schools

First, in the area of basic vocational education, in November, 1893, the 1893 Vocational Supplementary School Regulations were issued, and thus vocational education for youths, which had been treated by name only in Article 9 of the 1890 Elementary School Order, was backed up by a concrete proposal for separate institutions. The entrance requirement was graduation from at least an ordinary elementary school. The subjects included morals, reading, calligraphy and arithmetic, along with the vocational subjects. The length of the course was three years or less, and night school was also recognized. In addition to being supplementary organs of elementary education, these vocational supplementary schools were to teach knowledge and skills relevant to the vocations that would be followed by their pupils.

In July, 1894, the 1894 Apprentice School Regulations were issued. These were to be independent schools that could teach subjects essential to industrial workers, and rapidly train the people demanded by industry. Entrance into the apprentice schools was limited to those at least twelve years of age who had graduated from an ordinary elementary school. Along with subjects and an actual practice directly related to vocations there were general subjects of morals arithmetic, geometry, physics, chemistry, and drawing. The length of the course was to range from six months to four years.

Also, in July, 1894, the Simplified Agricultural School Regulations were issued. These schools were to provide an agricultural course for village youths aged fourteen and above. Instruction could be given during the slack season of agriculture, or in another appropriate season. According to the explanation offered at that time by the Ministry of Education in the official gazette, these simplified agricultural schools were to be operated for the purpose of "emphasizing the profit of using scientific methods instead of previously practiced methods in agriculture, and in order to make it easy for farm youths to enter, no restraints on admission such as were used in the other vocational schools were to be applied." These vocational supplementary schools, apprentice schools, simplified agricultural schools, and so on substantially broadened the educational facilities for working youths.

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