Technical and Vocational Education Act Article 20

The schools or vocational training organizations may implement vocational continuing education.The schools shall provide academic degree certificates, diploma, certificate of credits, or learning certificate by the nature of the vocational continuing education.The vocational continuing education shall offer the curriculum required by active staff or applicants for job transfer primarily. Such curriculum may be planned and designed based on the occupational competency standards defined by the various central industry competent authorities, and updated periodically.The regulations governing the enrollment targets, curriculum design, assessment for learning, qualification, mode of admission and other requirements to be met referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be defined by the central competent authorities. If necessary, upon consultation with the central labor competent authority, the vocational continuing education may be exempted from restrictions about the mode of admission referred to in Articles 35 to Article 40 of the Senior High School Education Act, and the curriculum and assessment for learning referred to in Chapter 7 of the same Act, and the restrictions about mode of admission referred to in Paragraph 2 of Article 31 of Junior College Act and mode of admission referred to in Paragraph 1 of Article 24 of the University Act.