(2)
There are numerous National General Scholastic Ability Tests, Joint College
Entrance Tests, Advanced Subjects Tests, and others held annually. In the
examination instructions, despite the examination service item allowing
examinees to apply for an extension of the examination time according to their
physiological disabilities, the General Scholastic Test nonetheless requires that
all extensions are limited to 20 minutes (2021 Syllabus indicates an extension
of 30 minutes), Similarly, the Advanced Subjects Test states that extensions are
limited to 50 minutes, which seems to illustrate that there are no reasonable
accommodations made based on the level of disability and the difference in
individual needs. It is recommended that the Ministry of Education (MOE)
conduct an overall review on all examination affairs units and schools in order
to determine whether reasonable accommodation for examinations for disabled
people are actually provided for entrance examinations. This review should aim
to preclude any adverse impact on fair and reasonable opportunities for students
with disabilities in examinations and higher education.
(3)
To reduce the difference in work adaptation for civil servants with disabilities,
the examination instructions for the Civil Service Special Examination for the
Persons with Disabilities should provide a detailed job description for the
examinees so they can evaluable the suitability of their exam applications. For
government agency workplaces with reasonable spatial accommodations for
persons with disabilities, the disabled should be invited to participate in defining
the core job skills and examination standards for the jobs. In addition, vocational
rehabilitation professionals should be invited to provide assistance in the
formulation of operational guidelines and manuals. Presently, the employment
measures currently adopted for various types of civil servants with disabilities,
to help them adapt reliably to the office environment, rely on each particular
employing agency’s setting up its own plan and allocating their own budget;
there is no organizational unit dedicated to coordinating such measures and
budgets uniformly. Accordingly, there is a need for all human resources
agencies together with the Ministry of Labor (MOL) and the Ministry of Health
and Welfare (MOHW) to proactively engage in a discussion to establish a
dedicated support and guidance system for the government agencies, with the
goal of providing a professional team, a resource contact system, and a service
window to assist and guide personnel with disabilities and their prospective
employers.
162. New Immigrants
(1)
2
With the introduction of migrant workers and large international capital
movements, our nation has entered the era of frequent cross-national/crossstrait (i.e. China-Taiwan) marriages.2 From 1998 to 2019, there were 608,071
such marriages, accounting for 18.47% of the total number of married
In Taiwan’s current society, these immigrants by marriage, overwhelminly women, are often called “new residents,”
recognizing that they become a long-term part of families and society in Taiwan, but hereafter they will be referred
to as “new immigrants”.
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