Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/02/23
By: Tseng Ying-yu, Chen Chi-fong and Lilian Wu
Taipei, Feb. 23 (CNA) A long-stalled cooperation plan between a local school
Education Minister Wu Se-hwa (right) visits a Le Cordon Bleu culinary arts center at National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism. CNA file photo
and the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu, the largest network of culinary and hospitality schools in the world, might finally get off the ground after a Taiwanese official said Tuesday that the necessary procedures will be completed soon.
Labor Minister Chen Hsiung-wen (陳雄文) said the ministry is discussing the matter with the Ministry of Education and that administrative procedures should be completed next week.
Chen made the remarks at a legislative hearing amid reports that a cooperation plan between Le Cordon Bleu and National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism five years ago still has not gotten off the ground.
Addressing concerns by Legislator Ko Chih-en (柯志恩) of the Kuomintang, Chen said the program, in the form of a short-term cram school, fell victim to the nation’s regulations that set limits on short-term cram schools to open language courses in an effort to prevent abuse by diploma mills. [FULL STORY]
