Educational officials from Southeast Asian countries yesterday signed a joint declaration of cooperation at Taiwan's Ministry of Education to form the Southeast Asian Convention for Technological and Vocational Education.
On Monday and Tuesday, educational officials from Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan attended a seminar on technological and vocational training at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology.
During the two-day seminar, the participants introduced technological and vocational education systems in their respective countries.
They also discussed the feasibility of developing technological and vocational education joint-degree systems between countries.
On the initiative of the Association of Technological and Vocational Education in Taiwan, the educational officials from Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, and Taiwan signed a joint declaration at the Ministry of Education Wednesday to form a convention to promote cooperation and exchange in technological as well as vocational education.
The joint declaration states that in view of the increasing interdependence among countries and similar cultural backgrounds, customs, and educational systems in Southeast Asia, the participants hope to establish a convention for the promotion of cooperation and exchanges.
The convention will publish periodicals and establish a Web site to promote distant and Internet educational programs. An important task will be the establishment of technological and vocational education joint-degree systems and certificate-verification systems between countries.
Taiwan's technological and vocational educational system has worked closely to help the nation's economic development in the past decades. The system covers a wide range of disciplines including agriculture, commerce, medicine and nursing, home economics and languages.
There are seven universities of technology, 19 universities offering programs in technology, 40 colleges of technology, 86 senior high schools offering 86 vocational programs and 199 vocational high schools, according to the Department of Technological and Vocational Education of the Ministry of Education.
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