Targets 4.1

By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and Goal-4 effective learning outcomes.

Targets 4.2

By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood
development, care and preprimary education so that they are ready for primary education.

Targets 4.3

By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university.

Targets 4.4

By 2030,substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical substantially and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.

Targets 4.5

By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.

Targets 4.6

By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy.

Targets 4.7

By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

Targets 4.A

Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, nonviolent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all.

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Develop syllabuses with information and technology courses

Taipei City is the first city in Taiwan to incorporate computing mindsets into life education for toddlers and establish K-12 systematic programming courses. It is also the first city in the country to compile and publish textbooks on AI to help students develop logical thinking and technological know-how while learning about programming logic.

 

The City established the “Taipei City Primary School Supportive Learning and Stimulated Learning Program”

schools will conduct selection tests and provide learning opportunities to students in need of supportive learning (remedial studies).

 

Fundamental education courses for adults of Taipei City

The City utilizes free spaces on school campuses, subsidies from the Ministry of Education, and the City's own funding, to open fundamental education courses for adults. A total of 40 courses were opened in 2020 (27 for Taiwanese nationals and 13 for new immigrants).

 

Develop resource handbooks for international education month

To implement international education, the City has compiled 2 handbooks for international education month, namely “Taipei City is My Classroom” and “City Classroom 2.0 - Exploring the Taipei-Keelung Metropolitan Area”. The handbooks are uploaded to the Taipei CooC-Cloud for the public to download.

 

Free, equitable, and quality education

Taiwan's 12-year Basic Education is divided into two stages. The first nine years are part of the national compulsory education for citizens aged 6-15 which is universal, obligatory, compulsory, tuition-free, and government-hosted. The following three years are part of the senior high school education for citizens aged 15 and above, which is universal, voluntary, tuition-free, provided by both public and private schools, primarily entrance exam-free, with diverse school types for both general and vocational education.

 

Promote dropout reporting, tracking, counseling, and prevention policies

The City constructed a school district resources network by combining the resources of police units, social affairs units, non-governmental organizations, and neighborhood communities. In 2020, the City subsidized 71 schools to provide flexible adaptive courses aimed at preventing students from dropping out. The City also collaborated with private institutions to set up collaborative dropout classes such as the Good Shepard School Academy and Elim Youth Academy. In 2020, the two academies served a total of 208 students (person-time).

 

Supportive employment transition program for Taipei City's senior high school graduates with disabilities

To increase the future employment rate of disabled students, the City emphasizes workplace integration in lesson planning and cooperates with the Department of Labor to help students apply for supportive employment after graduation so that they can make successful workplace transitions. In 2020, the employment rate of fresh graduates was 65.7%.

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Promote “3 3 preschool education core programs”

To fulfill parents' need for preschool education for their children, the City has expanded the capacity of public education services, revitalizing and utilizing free spaces in primary and middle schools to increase kindergarten classes or open new public and non-profit kindergartens. The City also established public kindergartens in newly built social housing complexes while actively promoting the “COPAY program”, encouraging private kindergartens to sign on as quasi-public kindergartens. Additionally, the City also plans to set up special education preschools in special education schools and alleviate parents' burdens by extending tuition subsidies and childcare subsidies.

 

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Install inclusive playgrounds in schools

The City plans to install inclusive campus playgrounds designed with “safety”, “accessibility”, “inclusiveness”, and “environmental integration” in mind. Designs are created with input from teachers, students, neighborhood residents, disability organizations, experts, and scholars. Priority is given to schools with centralized special education classes and resource classes that have suitable outdoor spaces with playground facilities due for replacement.

In 2019, inclusive playgrounds were installed in nine schools. In 2020, these playgrounds were installed in three additional schools, Lao-Song Elementary School, ZhiShan Elementary School, and Jingmei Elementary School. To achieve the goal of having inclusive playgrounds in every district by 2022, these playgrounds are set to be installed in 5 new schools in 2021 and 2022 respectively and 3 new schools in each following year.

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Create a digital learning environment with the Taipei CooC-Cloud platform

In line with the concept of “equal education”, the City launched the cloud-based learning system “Taipei CooC-Cloud”. The platform includes over 11,000 educational videos and over 300 thousand e-books, covering the primary school to high school levels, that teachers and students across Taiwan and in overseas compatriot schools can access for free. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, online learning became the primary mode of education for teachers and students, and usage of the platform increased dramatically. Some schools had to suspend classes due to the pandemic, and some students had to quarantine at home. To protect these students' rights to education, the City maintained the principle of “right to education during pandemic prevention”, using live or pre-recorded teaching videos to provide remote teaching services to students out of school because of the pandemic. For economically disadvantaged students, the City also provided free SIM cards, thereby ensuring that all students have equitable access to education. So far, the “Taipei CooC-Cloud” platform has partnered with 13 cities and counties, allowing outstanding teachers from different cities and counties to offer specialty online courses such as the “Mathematical Drawing Software Application and Design” course offered by Chiayi County's Jhuci High School and the “Book Thinking - Reading with Critical Thinking and Logic”. The platform also has courses offered in collaboration with local universities that are uploaded to the Internet as shared teaching resources for students across Taiwan.

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Construct student-centered and school-based “friendly campuses”

Per the “Regulations Governing Prevention and Control of Bullying on Campuses” issued by the Ministry of Education, the City has established the “Taipei City School Prevention and Control of Bullying on Campus Implementation Plan”. The plan aims to construct student-centered, school-based “friendly campuses” that emphasize qualities such as respect, care, empathy, inclusion, safety, and participation, fostering virtues of justice, honor, mutual assistance, care, and empathy among students, in order to eliminate campus bullying.