TY - JOUR
T1 - Taiwanese Higher Education in Times of Change
T2 - The Implications of the New Policy 2018
AU - Lin, Tzu Bin
AU - Huang, Chia Kai
N1 - Funding Information:
Looking at the funding for each university on the list (see ), it is obvious that National Taiwan University was allocated the biggest share. The funding for National Sun Yat-Sen University decreased while National Yang-Ming University increased. The rest of universities may have slight changes regarding their funding, but the list could be considered stable. In this phase, there are six research centres funded by moe with the maximum fund of nt $100 million.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This paper explores the potential consequences of the Higher Education Sprout Project (hesp) announced by the Ministry of Education (moe) in March 2018. In the fast-changing global arena of higher education, the Taiwanese government is striving for excellence in the performance of its higher education. Together with other East Asian countries like Japan, Korea, and Singapore, Taiwan officially entered the competition of global university ranking in 2006 when the government initiated the first round of the Aim for Top University Project (atup). After two five-year atup rounds, moe reviewed the results and started to revise the policy. Consequently, hesp was proposed and implemented. In this paper, we explicate the context of changing higher education landscape in Taiwan since 1994, the year the most recent education reform started. The discussion then moves to the issues emerging from the nationwide atup project. During the ten years of atup, most Taiwanese universities were influenced by the directions the project established. However, there has been criticism of atup and its outcome was severely in question. After reviewing the atup, the hesp came out in 2018. We analyse the policy as well as address its potential influences on universities in Taiwan.
AB - This paper explores the potential consequences of the Higher Education Sprout Project (hesp) announced by the Ministry of Education (moe) in March 2018. In the fast-changing global arena of higher education, the Taiwanese government is striving for excellence in the performance of its higher education. Together with other East Asian countries like Japan, Korea, and Singapore, Taiwan officially entered the competition of global university ranking in 2006 when the government initiated the first round of the Aim for Top University Project (atup). After two five-year atup rounds, moe reviewed the results and started to revise the policy. Consequently, hesp was proposed and implemented. In this paper, we explicate the context of changing higher education landscape in Taiwan since 1994, the year the most recent education reform started. The discussion then moves to the issues emerging from the nationwide atup project. During the ten years of atup, most Taiwanese universities were influenced by the directions the project established. However, there has been criticism of atup and its outcome was severely in question. After reviewing the atup, the hesp came out in 2018. We analyse the policy as well as address its potential influences on universities in Taiwan.
KW - Education policy
KW - Higher education
KW - Top universities
KW - University ranking
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U2 - 10.1163/24688800-20211141
DO - 10.1163/24688800-20211141
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85124834768
SN - 2468-8797
VL - 5
SP - 19
EP - 41
JO - International Journal of Taiwan Studies
JF - International Journal of Taiwan Studies
IS - 1
ER -
