The statistics illustrate how many students took different courses at two points in time:1985 and now, measured in percentage terms.
Overview, modern languages held the top spot in 1985, while that position this year belonged to IT. Additionally, among all the courses, art and modern languages witnessed a downward trend, similarly,music appreciation, local history completely disappeared over the period starting from 1985 to now; whereas cookery increased and IT was added as a new course.
In 1985, modern languages consisting of French, German and Spanish had the largest number of participants, with the figure being 24%. The proportion of fitness and dance was 22%, making it the second most popular course; those of cookery and local history were 14% and 15%, respectively. Furthermore, 17% of the total enrollment chose art, more than doubling the data for music appreciation.
In this year, the percentage of art negligibly declined to 15%. Modern languages also underwent a similar pattern, but was more significant, at 17%. By contrast, the number of students attracted by cookery modestly grew, to roughly one out of five of the total. Meanwhile, IT was recently added to the curriculum and rapidly became the most popular course, with a proportion of 27%, while music appreciation and local history were no longer taught at the center. Finally, the last 22% belonged to fitness and dance, making its data stable over the long term.