Industry

Can Student Interns Keep Taiwan’s Hotels Running?

As Taiwan’s service industry faces a severe manpower shortage, five-star hotels are filling vacancies with student interns from Southeast Asia. Can such programs be more than a stop-gap measure?

Politics & Society

Taiwan’s False Promise of Education: How International Students Become Cheap Labor

Taiwan’s overseas student policies once nurtured exceptional talents like Barry Lam of Quanta and Peter Chou of hTC. Today, however, international students are increasingly seen merely as a solution to labor shortages. How can this vicious cycle be stopped?

Politics & Society

Taiwan’s Education Problem: Foreign Students = Cheap Labor

Taiwan runs vocational education programs to attract students from Southeast and South Asia. But the initiatives have gone awry, turning the students into nothing more than cheap labor. Why has that happened, and what can Taiwan do about it?