LABOR ABUSE: Sixty-nine Sri Lankans enrolled at Kang Ning University were told to work at food factories to pay for tuition, which the school denied receiving
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 07, 2018
By: Rachel Lin, Hung Jui-chin and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Ministry of Education has established a task force to investigate whether vocational
Chu Chun-chang, director-general of the Ministry of Education’s Department of Higher Education, criticizes the University of Kang Ning’s Tainan campus for introducing Sri Lankan students to work illegally at a slaughterhouse. Photo: CNA
schools across the nation have contravened laws after it found that foreign students at University of Kang Ning international were engaged in work and not study, Deputy Ministry of Education Yao Leeh-der (姚立德) said yesterday.
Yao said that at the start of last school year, the university admitted 69 Sri Lankan students, who were asked to work at meat and food processing plants and told that their labor was paying for their tuition.
The university later informed the students that it had not received money for their work and that they still owed the school tuition, Yao said.
The university has admitted to oversight on the matter and said it would comply with all Ministry of Education and Ministry of Labor inquiries into the issue. [FULL STORY]
