On 20th February 2017, Ambassador Thomas J.C. Chen, together with Hon. Phineas Magagula ,Minister of Education and Training, launched three laboratories financed by the Republic of China (Taiwan) at Swaziland College of Technology (SCOT) and one workshop at Gwamile Vocational and Commercial Training Institute in Matsapha (VOCTIM). The three labs are Programmable Logic Controller Laboratory, ICT Laboratory and Industrial Wiring Laboratory; the workshop is for Automotive Repair. These facilities are critical to the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Enhancement Project between the two governments. In 2016, the project manager from Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund intensively engaged with SCOT and VOCTIM in the areas of procurement of new apparatuses and personnel training. Four lecturers from SCOT and two from VOCTIM successfully received short-term training in Taiwan last year. Early this year three Taiwanese experts were dispatched here to help train the lecturers. In the next four years, similar practices will be applied to SCOT and VOCTIM with the aim of enhancing of the TVET and, in turn, improving the economy and industry in Swaziland.
Ambassador Thomas J.C. Chen (R) and Hon. Phineas Magagula ,Minister of Education and Training (L) launched the Automotive Repair Workshop at VOCTIM.
Ambassador Thomas J.C. Chen (R) and Minister Phineas Magagula (C) listened to the Taiwanese expert on the operation of the apparatus for automotive repair.
Group photo at the Programmable Logic Controller Laboratory of SCOT