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It’s been a few years since Taiwan announced the plans for promoting the Taiwanese universities into the top of university world rankings. The Australians have recently published an in-depth analysis of the program with details I wasn’t able to find anywhere else on the English web. I strongly recommend that you read through the Australian Government’s “Taiwan’s Aim for the Top University Program - Innovation, internationalisation and opportunity”. This can also provide you with an overall image of Taiwanese academics :
The Taiwanese Ministry of Education (MOE) has invested NT$50 billion over five years in twelve universities (the ‘T12’ universities) to boost their international competitiveness. […]
The MOE’s program has identified twelve universities from these 160 as being ones that have the possibility either to break into the top 100 universities in the world, or to be amongst the best in the Asia/Pacific region in key research
areas. While there are undoubtedly very good universities outside of the T12, the T12 have each received significant funding from the Ministry under this program to develop international links, to improve infrastructure, and to enhance research and teaching either across the university or in key, identified areas. […]
Two universities (National Taiwan University and National Cheng Kung University) are receiving 47% of this funding, with the aim of having at
least one of them ranked within the world’s top 100 universities within ten years. The other ten universities in the T12 have been allocated the rest
of the funding, with the goal of Taiwan developing at least ten elite (Asian top-tier) departments or research centres in different areas of specialisation
in Asia within five years.Of the funding of NTD 50 billion over five years, the MOE set aside 40% for capital funding, and 60% for other budget items. Universities participating in
the ATUP are allowed to spend their funding across six broad areas:School operational management and organisational implementation systems
- Infrastructure
- Teaching
- Academic production and R&D
- Industry-academia cooperation, and
- Internationalisation.
Is it working? you be the judge. Take a look at those charts with differences between 2005 and 2006:
The trend, atleast when it comes to Internationalization, continued through 2007 as well.
Read the article. More on that later…
David on Formosa | July 15th, 2008 at 9:55 pm #
I find it interesting that the Australian government is doing a case study on Taiwan. I wonder whether they view Taiwan as a potential competitor in the education sector?
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| July 15th, 2008 at 10:14 pm #
David - Don’t know. I’m not sure they compete, but they might have a unique opportunity to work together to help both sides. In a way, the two education systems complement each other, don’t you think? It’d be interesting to ask the author how this study came to be.
How does NCCU rank? - David on Formosa | July 26th, 2008 at 6:48 am #
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