Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-01-19

The education ministry plans to set up a platform to help foreign students in Taiwan find internship opportunities.

The platform is intended to get more Taiwanese companies involved in training skilled professionals from countries covered by the government’s New Southbound policy. This policy seeks closer ties with the countries of South and Southeast Asia as well as Australia and New Zealand. The education ministry says the platform will be ready in March.

Education ministry statistics show that the number of students from these countries pursuing an education in Taiwan has grown. The number in the current academic year has broken 38,000. That represents an increase of more than 5,000, or more than 15%, over the previous academic year. The number of students choosing to stay in Taiwan after graduating has also been growing, breaking 2,700 in 2016.    [FULL  STORY]