The act of illegal brokers deceiving foreign nationals into studying in Taiwan is alarming
Taiwan News
Date 2019/01/22
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Six of 40 Sri Lankan students studying at University of Kang Ning (UKN) have left Taiwan reportedly because they couldn’t land a job, and the act of illegal brokers deceiving foreign nationals into studying in Taiwan is alarming.
As a punishment to UKN’s involvement in the suspicious enrollment, Taiwan’s Ministry of Education (MOE) reduced the numbers of students the university is allowed to enrol, according to a Chinese-language United Daily report.
MOE Department of Higher Education Director-General Chu Hung-chang (朱俊彰) said that these Sri Lankan students were enrolled at the university as regular international students, not as students under industry-academia cooperation projects. Therefore, the university has no obligation to find jobs for these students, but the school must explain to them about the rules of working part-time and help them filter out bad working environments to prevent them from breaking the law, Chu added.
If these students want to drop out of school due to not being able to find a job or other personal reasons, they should have the freedom to make that decision, Chu said.
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