🇹🇼How does Taiwan mark Compulsory education: from what age to what age — and whose duty is it?

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Taiwan's compulsory schooling sits in Article 3 of the Compulsory Education Act: citizens aged six to fifteen shall receive national education, and compulsory enrolment shall be prescribed by separate legislation. Nine years; Article 4 then splits them into six years of primary and three of junior high. The half-sentence about separate legislation is worth pausing on — the statute first declares that education must be received, then hands how to compel it to another law entirely. Splitting the duty from the machinery of enforcement across two statutes is unusual among these seven markets: most either state only the ages (Brazil, India) or attach the duty to a named party (parents in Japan, the citizen himself in China). Article 5 adds that national education is to be provided by government as a rule, with private provision encouraged, and Article 6 deals with experimental education — so the same act simultaneously preserves "you must be schooled" and "you need not be in a conventional school", the latter picked up by two separate ordinances on experimental education.