Yedihut Aharonot – Israel’s most popular newspaper – ran a story in December about Taiwan’s education system. The evening I was heading out to Korea, I received a phone-call from the Israeli correspondent for the newspaper in Beijing asking me what I thought of the topic. The story was initiated due to yet another decline [...]

This is the second part to a discussion about cultural differences in education where I address some interesting points made in the “Experiences of Teaching Engineering Students in Taiwan from a Western Perspective”  article (Frode Sandnes, Yo-Ping Huang and Hua-Li Jian (2006), International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 1013-1022). First, general [...]

NCKU’s Research Express has an interesting article called “Experiences of Teaching Engineering Students in Taiwan from a Western Perspective” (Frode Sandnes, Yo-Ping Huang and Hua-Li Jian (2006), International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 1013-1022) which goes to the heart of something I’ve been wondering about for the last year or so [...]

If you’re at all interested in international education or international students in Taiwan, I strongly recommend downloading the Taiwan Ministry of Education Excel stat data-sheet that includes very detailed statistics on the topic (source): Foreign students are the bridges of a nation to the international society. The number of students studying in Taiwan indicates the [...]

A few months ago I participated in a study performed by first year undergraduates students in NCKU as part of a university program to encourage Taiwanese undergraduates to tackle English academic level research during their first year with the university. A worthy goal indeed. This study was especially interesting for me since it was dealing [...]

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 [...]

Taiwan’s business schools are on a race to get the business school AACSB accreditation. It’s a good goal for the Taiwanese universities to pursue, something on the grounds of – how did some professor put it – business schools ISO. The international students I know that are studying in Taiwan, be that Taipei, Xinzhu, Tainan [...]