Chungbuk Technical High School, renamed to Chungbuk Meditech High School and reorganized into K-Biomedical Specialized High School.

Chungbuk Technical High School is making a new start as a base school for nurturing talent in the K-biomedical field.

According to the Chungbuk Provincial Office of Education on the 6th, Chungbuk Technical High School, which was selected as an agreement-type specialized high school (biomedical field) by the Ministry of Education last June, will change its name to Chungbuk Meditech High School and revamp its curriculum as of March next year.

The agreement-type specialized high school is a vocational education innovation project of the Ministry of Education in which offices of education, local governments, local companies, universities, and related organizations enter into agreements to jointly foster customized talent needed for local industries.

Chungbuk Technical High School has established a cooperative system with 51 companies, including Celltrion Pharmaceuticals, 6 universities, including Chungbuk National University, and 14 related organizations, including the Osong Advanced Medical Industry Promotion Foundation, to cultivate talent from curriculum development to field training, employment, post-study, and local settlement.

The school curriculum will also be reorganized to meet the needs of the K-biomedical industry.

The first year is operated as a biomedical department, and the second and third years are subdivided into ▲ Medical Device Department, ▲ Medical Convergence Department, ▲ Medical Electrical Control Department, and ▲ Bioprocess Control Department to develop practical capabilities necessary for medical device maintenance and quality control, pharmaceutical and medical device production line maintenance, medical electrical system safety management, and pharmaceutical manufacturing facility inspection and quality control.

Contracting companies participate in the development of curriculum and textbooks that reflect industrial jobs, field training and internships, and employment linkage, while universities and related organizations support student education, teacher training, and professional education programs.

The contract-type specialized high school project will receive 7.55 billion won over 5 years, including 4.5 billion won in special grants from the Ministry of Education, in the name of improving the practice environment and expanding cutting-edge equipment.

Through this project, Chungbuk Technical High School aims to achieve a net employment rate of 55%, a local employment rate of 85%, and a regional settlement rate of 80% by 2031, as well as expanding to more than 70 contracted companies.

On this day, an inauguration ceremony for selecting an agreement-type specialized high school was held at Chungbuk Technical High School, with about 250 participants, including companies and universities, as well as students and faculty.

Superintendent Yoon Geon-young said, “Through the newly prepared curriculum, we hope that students will grow into technical talents who will lead the bio industry by gradually developing their professional skills and field capabilities.”