This Act has been formulated in order to put in place a technical and vocational education (hereinafter referred to as “TVE”) system for training skilled people, to foster people’s proper understanding and appreciation of vocations and professions, to put in place TVE teaching of useful practical skills, and to train skilled people for all trades and industries.

In this Act, the term “competent authority” refers to the Ministry of Education at the central government level; to the municipal government at municipality level; and to the county (city) government at the county (city) level.
When any matter stipulated in this Act involves an industry area over which another competent authority exercises administrative oversight, each competent authority shall work in coordination with the other competent authority involved.

The terms used in this Act are defined as follows:
Career information education: refers to education to provide students with knowledge and understanding, exploration, and personal experience of various vocations and occupations.
Basic vocational education: refers to education that provides students with the professional knowledge, skills, and professional ethics and self-restraint required to join the workforce, and establishes a sense of pride in their future technical or vocational profession.
Vocational continuing education: refers to education that provides currently working people, or those transferring to another position or into another field, with the specialized skills and/or vocational training required for the workplace.
Technical and vocational education institutions: refers to skills-based senior high schools; general senior high schools with affiliated vocational program divisions; comprehensive senior high schools that provide vocational programs; junior colleges; institutes of technology; and universities of science and technology.
Technical and vocational colleges and universities: refers to junior colleges; institutes of technology; and universities of science and technology.
Vocational training institutes: refers to vocational training institutes registered or approved to be established in accordance with the Vocational Training Act.