The Ministry of Education stated that it attaches great importance to technical and vocational education, and relevant subsidies have been increased, and through inter-ministerial cooperation, it has responded from the training and institutional aspects.

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The increase in test takers may affect the admissions of HKUST

[Reporters Yang Mianjie and Zhang Weizhen/Taipei Report] The number of applicants for the academic test this year has increased by more than 2,000. Experts warn that they may crowd out the admissions of science and technology universities. Educational groups also call for the promotion of publicization of technical and vocational education and the injection of more public education resources.

The Ministry of Education responded today (1st) that it attaches great importance to technical and vocational education, and related subsidies have increased, and through inter-ministerial cooperation from training and system-oriented response, in the future, it will continue to encourage industry-university cooperation to cultivate talents for national key development industries, and strengthen Vocational advocacy.

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The Ministry of Education pointed out that it has always attached importance to the development of technical and vocational education, and has continued to balance the allocation of higher education and technical and vocational resources. In order to assist private schools in cultivating high-quality professional and technical personnel, the major plans to subsidize private technical colleges from 2015 to 2010, such as " There has been an increase in subsidies for the Overall Development Award Subsidy Program for Private Technical Colleges, the Higher Education Intensive Cultivation Program, and the Optimized Technical and Vocational College Practice Environment Program.

According to the Ministry of Education, about 63.3 billion yuan has been invested in related plans, including two phases of the technical and vocational education reconstruction plan from 1999 to 106, the development model science and technology university plan from 102 to 106, and the third phase of teaching excellence in science and technology schools. Plan, 106 to 110-year plan to optimize the practice environment of technical colleges, 106-111 new south-bound technical talent plan, 107-111 year-to-111th phase of the higher education deep cultivation plan for technical colleges , 111 to 114 years of construction of regional industrial talent and technology training base plan.

The Ministry of Education also separately explained the two aspects of improving the employability of students after graduation and cultivating technical talents needed by the industry. In the part of training, the policy direction is to reform technical and vocational courses so that technical and vocational graduates have the skills to promote "optimization of technical skills". Vocational School Practice Environment Plan", "Building Regional Industrial Talents and Technology Cultivation Base Plan", improve and build the teaching practice field of colleges and universities, and strengthen the link between school practice teaching and industrial practice.

In addition, the "Higher Education Intensive Cultivation Program" takes students' learning outcomes as the main body. Through the flipping of learning models, teaching content and methods, it improves students' learning motivation and cultivates key basic abilities and skills, and cultivates students to become practical and innovative. and employable professional and technical personnel.

In terms of the system, based on the needs of the industry, the enrollment quota will be adjusted on a rolling basis, and the school's enrollment department will be adjusted according to the future manpower demand, and the flexibility of the school's department and department will be increased, and technical colleges will be encouraged to meet the needs of the industry and flexibly handle the "industry-university cooperation" Cooperation Program", "Industrial Academy Program" and other industry-university special classes.

The Ministry of Education emphasized that in the future, on the basis of the above, it will continue to promote relevant plans with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and other competent authorities, encourage enterprises and schools to cooperate in cultivating talents, and build regional industrial talents and technology cultivation for the six core strategic industries. base.

In terms of basic talents, we will strengthen the publicity of technical and vocational education to encourage graduates of junior high schools to choose to enter technical and vocational schools.