The Toastmasters concept is something that I’ve heard about before, usually from American flicks, but I’ve never seen it in action. Toastmasters, for promoting international leadership, is an extremely popular student club here in Tainan, and rumor has it that Tainan alone has 5 different Toastmasters clubs in different institutes. The Taiwanese Toastmasters club is [...]
Taiwanese academics is very different than what I’m used to back home. I’m still trying to get around some of the challenges I’m facing while studying in Taiwan. The teaching methods, the homework and class assignments, the interaction - or lack of - between students and professors, the interaction - or lack of - between [...]
The Taiwanese students are just adorable. Somehow, they make me feel even older than I really am, and that’s old enough when it comes to university students.
Part of the Taiwanese student life is belonging to a club. My receptionist has invited me and another IMBA student for a "club-night", which I thought might be a Ministry of Sound kind [...]
A few weeks back I heard about a small conference held in London hosting Mr. Tu Cheng-sheng who’s the Minister of Education for Taiwan (杜正勝) with a speech titled "Education Reform in Taiwan: local and global perspectives". It was interesting to listen to what happened since the interactions between the Chinese and Taiwanese students who [...]
