Southward Education Policy Pays Off
Announced Date：2017-11-23
Announced Unit：Office of the Secretary
To respond to the central government’s new southward policy, Chung Shan Industrial and Commercial School (CSIC) introduced a specialized program for overseas ethnic Chinese students in 1996 to recruit the overseas ethnic Chinese students, mainly in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Myanmar. Today, there are 529 students currently enrolled in this program, and about 900 have graduated so far. Mr. Lin Zhao-Yi, Principal of CSIC, stressed that this school has 21 years of experience in educating these overseas students. Either staying in Taiwan or returning to their home countries after graduation for further studies or employment, these overseas students all witness outstanding achievements. Thanks to word of mouth, a stream of ethnic Chinese students from these five countries are coming to Taiwan. In particular, 100 12-graders in the electronic class of this program have secured over 300 level C certificates in the field of industrial electronics and computer hardware fabrication in total, and 87 of them even secured the level B certificates in the same categories. Additionally, seven, among them, secured the level C certificate in the field of beauty as their secondary skill, and among them, four even secured 4 certificates individually. This will only open up more academic and career opportunities for them