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The system of commercial education department has veen maintained since it was introduced in the form of the Fourth National Curriculum to commercial high schools in 1984. However, the system has never been proved effective for the years. The purpose of this study was to find the problems on the present commercial education department system by examining and analyzing the data obtained from 200 commercial high school teachers and to suggest an alternative way of operating the system to normalize the commercial high school education, based on their responses to the given questionaires. 1. The department system should be reconsidered with a view to opening the courses diversely and operatimg it to fulfill the specialization and differentiation, considering the social need and school requirements. 2. The prescribed course objectives should be clarified to manifest the specialization and differentiation of the courses. 3. The required subjects of each course should be increased and the electives should be decreased in order to strenghthen and enhance the specialization and differentiation of the courses. 4. The content and standard of the specialized subjects should be reorganized in order to meet the usefulness and practicality required by industrial society. 5. The school principal should realize the aim and objectives of the department system and reform the rigid abtainment of grades and conventional system of commercial education. 6. The department system shoule be taken into consideration according to the specialization of the course and the quality of teachers should be heightened by strenghthening the in-service training and workshop. 7. The admission system should be no longer for middle school graduates with unsatisfactory school record and some incentives such as reformation of commercial of high school systen into 5-year course should be taken into consideration. 8. The on-the-job training in industry should be emphasized in order to improve the specialized skills amd the necessary teaching aids should be obtained into schools in order to achieve the specialized education. 9. The public relations with industry should be promoted because the present classified course system of commercial high school is not fully appreciated by the industry. The range of information gathering should be wide ehough to make the most of the characterizatuon of the clasified system.