A New Apprenticeship System for Economic Disadvantaged Students in Taiwan

By:
Prof. Hsi-Chi Hsiao
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Traditionally, an apprenticeship system is to cultivate skilled workers by industries with little formal education and tends to be a non-degree program. A new apprenticeship system is created to integrate apprenticeship and schooling through a 3+4 program in Taiwan. The program gives students opportunity to attend vocational high school and technological college while study skills in industry in the same time. Industry pays wages for their tuition and living costs; and school recognizes their work experiences and transfers them into school credits. After students finish the program, they can get high school diploma and college degree and obtain a job in the firm where they have already worked on during the schooling. The key factors to succeed for the program include: (1) program needs to cooperate with firm need and school requirement and is well planned by high school, college and firm. Especially, skill learning in firm should be highly related with school curriculum; (2) a contract for student, school, and firm indicates training conditions, wages, and credit transfer; and (3) a committee consisted of high school, college and firm helps students go through the program, and solve problems happened in the process among high school, college and firm.


Keywords: Apprenticeship System, Disadvantaged Students, Vocational and Technical Education
Stream: Adult, Vocational, Tertiary and Professional Learning
Presentation Type: 30 minute Paper Presentation in English
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Prof. Hsi-Chi Hsiao

Chair, Graduate Institute of Business and Administration, Cheng Shiu University
Niaosong, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Professor Hsi-Chi Hsiao received his M.S. degree from University of Wisconsin in 1983 and Ph. D. from Indiana State University in 1987. He was head of Department of Industrial Education at National Changhua University of Education and president of National Penghu Institute of Technology in Taiwan. He has also served as government consultant in the field of curriculum and instruction, vocational and technological education, research in applied science education for many years. He is now a chair professor at Graduate Institute of Business and Administration, Cheng Shiu University. His research interest has been focused on curriculum and instruction development, skill testing and creativity for vocational, technological and engineering education.

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