In the foreign countries, the Technological & Vocational Education (TVE) students just need to take few professional courses, and spend much time on the specific technical skills during their studying programs. In Taiwan, the TVE students begin to take the professional courses on the age of 15 years old, which is earlier than the Higher Education (HE) students on the age of 18 years old, and therefore most of the Taiwanese think the TVE students may own more professional knowledge about their majors. For example, in the bachelor stage, I take 186 professional credits with 128 general credits at NKIT & NTUST, but the HE students just take about 85 professional credits with 55 general credits. Actually, in the foreign counties, the students just take about 60 professional credits with 40 general credits in the bachelor stage. Because Taiwanese TVE students focus on the professional capabilities, their English capability is always weaker than the HE students. In the M.S. or Ph.D. program, whatever the student studies in the TVE or HE system, they must submit their thesis or dissertation for the University; hence, the only difference between the two systems may be the research directions of the TVE system are more practical. Besides, Taiwanese desire to study at the National schools, so that they don't care about which educational system they read for their degrees.
