The sprout project proposed by Min-Hwei College in the year 2018-2022 aims at "implementing teaching innovation and fostering employability" and is positioned at "cultivating practical professionals". Inventory of the implementation effects and review of the first stage of Higher Education SPROUT Project, and based on the school's 2020-2022 mid- to long-term school affairs development goals, we put forward "seeing youth, youth seeing-strengthening youth employment ability" as the second stage of Promoting goals of sprout project. The implementation rate was 100% after reviewing the 2020 sprout project, based on 24 quantitative indicators set and customized by the Ministry, 20 goals were achieved, and the achievement rate of performance indicators was 83.33%. Highlights of the 2020 project implementation results are summarized as follows:



1. Students Dimension:

(1) Improvement of learning effectiveness

Through Higher Education SPROUT Project, the school offers cross-domain experience integration learning mode courses, and invites industry experts to collaborate with practical course teaching and guidance to strengthen students' professional practical ability. For example, Department of Long term Care and Health Promotion took the "care attendant" exam for the first time, and the passing rate of students who participated in it reached 92.74%. The passing rate of nurses, dental technicians, clinical skills in nursing (OSCE) certification, and childcare department nanny license certification, etc. have all increased significantly.

(2) Graduate employment rate and retention rate are gradually rising

We are committed to matching students' internship and career employment. Although the students have the willingness, the initial employment rate does not increase significantly. Through the promotion of professional technical practice improvement, internship counseling, career counseling, etc., the employment rate of the 2019 academic year has reached 51%, the retention rate has also increased significantly (statistics as of December 31, 2020), showing that the school has gradually promoted effectiveness in “graduate employment” through the implementation of Higher Education SPROUT Project.

(3) The number of matchmaking partners in the Wing-Expansion Program has grown substantially

Min-Hwei College actively promotes the Youth Wings Program of MOE, combine with industry and academia to help students, urge manufacturers to cooperate with students to sign contracts, encourage companies to fulfill social responsibility, and encourage disadvantaged and outstanding students to join the Youth Wings Program with substantive scholarships, reaching 5 years of publicly funded training aims. The school actively strives for the goal of "finding talents for enterprises and finding the future for talents". The number of successful matchmaking for the YPTP has grown significantly. Among 51 students of Class 2017, a total of 24 students of the Long-term Care Department participated in the YPTP, the match rate is as high as 54.9 %. It not only implements the cultivation of long-term care employment manpower, but also demonstrates the spirit of the school's school affairs development and deep cultivation plan.



2. Course Dimension:

(1) Increase of Cross-domain learning courses and the number of participants

In order to increase the future employment competitiveness of non-nursing students, in order to respond to future changes in the social industry and expand employment opportunities and fields, the development of the school departments aims at "health promotion-general nursing". We continued to launch the "Nursing Education Exploration Camp" in the summer vacation of 2018-2020. Among them, 18 students from the Class 2017 of Long-term Care Department participated in the Summer Nursing Education Exploration Camp, and 6 students participated in the Youth Wing Training Program through the cross-field nursing value-added program. In addition to enhancing their competitiveness, we have organized the "Advanced Chewing and Swallowing and Oral Health Learning Center for the Elderly" based on the school’s technical excellence plan, introducing experience from domestic and foreign industry and academia, and nurturing teachers and students with advanced oral diseases and care capabilities, chewing and swallowing assessment capabilities, and oral health care training. In 2020, a cross-field course was opened, with 2 students in Nursing Department, 13 in Dental Laboratory Technology Department, and 29 in Long-term Care Department, totaling 44 students.

(2) Increase in the number of innovative teaching courses

We invite industry experts to collaborate with teachers in school on teaching, joint plan courses, compiling clinical case textbooks, increasing practical exercises, and improving student learning effectiveness through teacher community discussions, teaching aids and textbook design. Teachers have increasingly adopted innovative teaching models from 32 subjects in 2019 to 41 subjects in 2020.





3. Teachers Dimension:

(1) Continued growth in the number of people completing practical enhancements

In order to enhance the bilateral cooperation between the teaching research of school's teachers and industry needs, introduce industry experience, strengthen teachers' practical teaching ability and connotation, and promote and encourage full-time professional teachers of our school, every 6 years, we need to go to the industry for half a year to conduct related profession or technique. In the academic year 2020, the completion rate of industrial studies has reached 94%. All professional teachers of Department of Child Educare, Department of Cosmetology and Health Care, Department of Dental Laboratory Technology have been completed. Teachers can introduce industry practices and experience into the classroom to achieve the effect of teaching and learning.

(2) Optimization and growth of teacher quality

In order to provide students with a good learning environment and resources, we aim to recruit outstanding teachers with high academic qualifications, professionalism, and practical experience. On the other hand, we encourage the existing teachers in the school to get promoted. As the nursing department and the dental laboratory technology department of our school are rare profession, and the number of high-level teachers (doctoral level or above) is rare. Therefore, we encourage the full-time teachers of those departments to study the doctoral program of nursing and dental laboratory technology to strengthen their professions. The high-level teacher ratio has grown from 23.66% in 2018 to 28% in 2020.