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Chapter 2 Planning and Management of Technical & Vocational Education
Article 4
In order to formulate macro policies and programs to train and educate skilled people necessary for national economic and industrial development, the Executive Yuan shall regularly convene meetings of its Technical and Vocational Education Advisory Committee and invite the ministers of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the National Development Council, and other related ministries and government bodies to attend. The Executive Yuan shall prescribe the regulations governing the appointment of members of the committee, and its organization and operation.
The programs referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be comprehensively reviewed at least once every two years and the review findings shall be made public.
Article 5
The central competent authority shall conduct surveys to gather TVE-related data and generate statistics, or else appoint or commission a university or college, corporation, agency or organization, or group to do so.
The central competent authority for each industry area shall compile information about the skilled people needed by the industries under its jurisdiction and submit survey findings and forecasts about the skilled personnel demands of those industries to the central competent authority.
The central competent authority shall regularly make public the TVE-related statistical data referred to in Paragraph 1 and information about all levels and all categories of industry, employment developments, and personnel demands.
Article 6
Each competent authority at municipality level and county (city) level shall submit a TVE report to the central competent authority every three years, and the central competent authority will use these reports when formulating TVE development reports.
Article 7
The competent authority shall weigh and consider regional industry needs and people’s employment needs and plan the provision of TVE aligned with social, economic, and technical development, in the schools, colleges, and universities under its jurisdiction, that is aligned with social, economic, and technical development/developments.
When a competent authority at municipality level or county (city) level achieves substantial results organizing the provision of TVE, the central competent authority may allocate it a grant of funds as an incentive reward. The regulations governing the eligibility criteria, form, and any other compliance matters associated with such incentives shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.
Article 8
Each competent authority shall invite suitable government bodies, scholars & experts, leading members of society, business and industry sector representatives, representatives of educational institutions, representatives of teachers' organizations, and representatives of industry (professional) associations and/or unions to form a technical and vocational education advisory committee to advise on matters related to TVE.
People of any one gender must comprise at least one-third of the members of the technical and vocational education advisory committees referred to in the preceding paragraph.