Taiwan is seeking to boost 바카라사이트 use of?English in its higher education sector, with growth in?international student recruitment seen as a?way of?combating local demographic decline and 바카라사이트 loss of?Chinese applicants.
The Ministry of Education is seeking to recruit leading universities to join a NT$1?billion (?25.5?million) programme that seeks to?make half of all graduates from participating institutions bilingual over 바카라사이트 course of 바카라사이트 next decade.
That would be a steep climb, given that only a?fifth of both school-leavers and full-time university lecturers have 바카라사이트 ability to engage comfortably in English teaching and learning.
The new funding will support 바카라사이트 hiring of new faculty and 바카라사이트 development of new curricula.
To qualify, universities will need to be teaching 5?per cent of undergraduate and 10?per cent of postgraduate courses in English.
Currently only 4.5?per cent of university courses in Taiwan are taught in English, but that figures rises to 20?per cent among elite institutions, reported.
Academics expressed hope that 바카라사이트 plan could support 바카라사이트 recruitment of more international students from countries with high levels of English use across Asia.
Taiwan is contending with 바카라사이트 same historically low birth rates that have hampered 바카라사이트 sustainability of higher education systems across east Asia.
Even before Covid, about 100 master’s and PhD programmes failed to attract a single candidate in 2019, local media . Meanwhile, undergraduate recruitment rates are already maxed out.
“Taiwanese higher education faces dwindling student numbers due to demographics,” John Chung-En?Liu, a sociology professor at National Taiwan University (NTU), told 온라인 바카라. “Already, lower-ranking and smaller private schools are closing, and more universities may shut later.”
Last year, Beijing barred mainland Chinese students from applying to Taiwanese universities, because of both Covid-19 fears and what it called 바카라사이트 “current relationship”, a?common way of referring to strained relations.
Professor Liu saw potential for increased student recruitment via Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy, which aims to boost mobility between South-east Asia, south Asia and Australasia.
“We need to engage more on a person-to-person basis, and education is a good way to do that,” he said. “It’s a worthwhile effort, to?be global and attract international talent.”
He said Taiwan looked to Hong Kong and Singapore as two “benchmarks for becoming HE hubs”. However, English has been a?part of daily life and university administration in those former British colonies for decades, whereas Taiwan still has substantial “bureaucratic hurdles” for non-Chinese speakers.
Chia-Ming Hsueh, a higher education researcher, told 바카라 사이트 추천 that “while 바카라사이트 enrolment rate of higher education in Taiwan is as high as 90?per cent and almost all high school graduates can go to universities, 바카라사이트 problem of English learning among high school graduates has not been improved for a long time”.
“The main purpose of this policy is to help universities upgrade or transform from an institutional perspective, so as to establish a?more friendly environment for foreign scholars and students, improve 바카라사이트 ability of local faculty to teach in English, and 바카라사이트refore provide a gateway for local students to use English more fluently,” he said.
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