With the assistance of the German Trade Office in Taipei, the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) and the Ministry of Education (MOE) are introducing a German-style, dual-track, job-skills training program to local enterprises, a spokesman for the council's Employment and Vocational Training Administra-tion said yesterday.
The spokesman said that in the initial stage, the program will coordinate with local enterprises to offer internship opportunities to 500 high school or vocational school graduates who will serve a three-year paid internship paired with classroom instruction.
So far, seven junior colleges of technology have agreed to arrange curricula for the interns and the MOE is expecting to include more colleges in the program, the spokesman said.
He added that the interns will spend 60 percent of their internship with the company that hires them, while 40 percent of the time will be spent in the classroom. After completing the three-year program, an intern will be awarded a junior college diploma as well as a certificate issued by the CLA.
While the enterprises are required to pay an intern no less than half of the payment for a regular worker doing a similar job, the government will subsidize participating enterprises NT$150,000 for each intern they employ.
Meanwhile, the interns are required to pay half of the tuition.
The Tech Electric and Machinery Co has signed a letter of intent to start the program in September. The company plans to offer 100 vacancies in the information technology, information management, business administration and hotel management sectors, according to the spokesman.
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