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The research was to investigate the present circumstance of the Food and Beverage Department of the senior high schools and vocational high schools located in northern Taiwan. Nine schools were sampled to be the research objects. The research were developed by the researcher.The major findings of the research were as followings:1. The Food and Beverage Department has not been set for a long time. However, the number of students and teachers in each school are increasing.2. Almost all the teachers have to manage the laboratories, and to be the advisors of classes. The ratio of certificate professional teachers is not high. However, most uncertificate teachers are taking in-service education credits now. Nevertheless, there are only a few teachers possess skill certification in food and beverage area.3. Regarding to the required professional courses, most of them were similar to the standards, which designed by the Ministry of Education. However, each school has its own selected courses besides the ones recommended by the Ministry of Education. Some schools even have special enforcement program for students to get into advanced schools after graduation.4. For safety facilities required in the laboratories, the most important ones are extinguishers, smoke detectors, and gas automatic interdictions. Among the equipment, fire extinguisher is the most common one. Regarding to the professional facilities, they are big differences according to different purposes of different types of laboratories. The average spaces of laboratory are smaller than the official standards. The restaurant service training laboratories get the largest space, but the beverage labor5. There are seven schools offer the cooperated education programs with workplaces. Six difference model of cooperation education were: sandwich style, terrace style, scholarship style, practice style, employment-guaranteed style, and advanced-study style.6. The difficulties of the food and beverage education at senior high school level were: (1)lack of funds, (2)the facilities and maintenance are not enough, (3)teachers can''t get enough support and chances for advanced study, and (4)the difficulty in managing of laboratories.The suggestions to improve education in the food and beverage field and to future research were proposed by the research.
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