How to become a Higher Education Teacher

Official title: Higher Education Teachers

Teaches courses and carries out academic research at universities and colleges.

Main tasks

• Design and plan courses, give lectures, and lead teaching programmes, seminars and laboratory work
• Encourage students to think independently and supervise experiments and research
• Prepare and run tests and examinations to assess learning
• Research and develop new concepts, theories and practices for use in industry and other fields
• Write academic books, reports and papers

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Demand for Education jobs is projected at about 444,000 in 2024 and about 435,000 in 2030. (-2%)
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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Questions people ask

Is a Higher Education Teacher a growing career in Taiwan?

Demand for this job family is projected to change -2% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).

Will AI change the work of a Higher Education Teacher?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026