At least 2,000 Vietnamese students will receive airfare, tuition, and living expenses from Taiwan to study semiconductor and engineering this year.
These incentives are part of the International Industrial Talent Education Special Program (INTENSE) for students from Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines, announced by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan in mid-March.
Mr. Han Quoc Dieu, Director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Ho Chi Minh City, said this is a cooperation program between the Taiwan Education Agency and businesses and universities to focus on training human resources in the fields of science, technology, chips, and semiconductors.
Accordingly, universities will base their training on the requirements and orders of enterprises. International students are sponsored for airfare, tuition and living expenses of NT$10,000 per month (VND7.7 million). After graduation, they must work at the enterprise that placed the order, for at least two years. After this period, students can stay in Taiwan or return.
The condition for international students to maintain the scholarship is to be in the top 70% of the class, starting from the second year.
Representatives of Lunghwa University (Taiwan) introduce a circuit board designed by students of the school, October 2023. Photo: Le Nguyen
Mr. Tran Hoa Hien, Education Counselor, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Ho Chi Minh City, said that the Taiwan Ministry of Education has approved more than 100 of these special classes. College and secondary school graduates, students of the 2+2 joint program between universities in Vietnam and Taiwan, or master's and doctoral candidates can all participate.
Upon graduation, they are awarded a bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree corresponding to the training program.
In the first year, the program is expected to recruit 2,000-2,500 Vietnamese students, who can enroll in February or September. Representatives of Taiwanese universities will come to Vietnam to interview and select candidates. On March 28, about 12 schools were present at Nhan Van High School, Tan Phu District, Ho Chi Minh City, to advise on this program.
In addition, some schools will set up offices in Vietnam, supporting students to learn Chinese (online or in-person) and free short-term experiential courses.
Mr. Han Quoc Dieu assessed that this training program is beneficial for both Taiwan and Vietnam in training human resources for semiconductors and science and technology. Vietnam needs human resources to promote this industry, while Taiwanese companies currently produce 65% of chips and 92% of advanced processing chips, leading the world.
Taiwan is also struggling with an aging population and falling birthrate. University enrollments are down 20% from a decade ago, and businesses are short of workers. Last year, Taiwan announced plans to spend $162.5 million over five years to increase the number of international students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields, focusing on Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia.
According to ICEF Monitor data in June 2023, Vietnam is Taiwan's number 1 international student market. More than 20,000 Vietnamese people study here, accounting for nearly a quarter of the total number of international students.
Le Nguyen
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