REFLECTIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN TAIWAN FROM 1999 TO 2019

Chia-Hao Lee, Yuan-Chang Guo
Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan

ABSTRACT

Technical education cooperates in Taiwan's social development and industrial upgrading cultivates various technical talents plays a pivotal role in cultivating national infrastructure manpower and promoting economic development and contributes to the past creation of Taiwan's economic miracle. At present "low-birth rate" is an inevitable threat to Taiwan and the most serious challenge for Taiwan's education industry now. Although at this stage Taiwans technical and vocational colleges are inferior to enrollment in general universities these're maybe the beginning of a turnaround. This study finds that vocational schools must avoid the theoretical academic thinking in the future overall managemnet combined with the development of practical industry cooperation and find out the unique positioning of self such as the National Taipei University of Technology follows the Swiss "apprenticeship"National Pingtung University of Science and Technology takes tropical agriculture as the core research the "household management " of Tainan University of Applied Sciences they have all successfully established distinctive positioning. These Taiwan of technical education industry not only not afraid the low-birth rate and more capable of global competition then can continue competitiveness of higher vocational education in Taiwan.

KEYWORDS

Positioning, Academic, Technical education