2010 Taiwan Government Scholarships Now Accepting Applications

 

Los Angeles, February 1, 2010 - The Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Los Angeles is pleased to announce the Taiwan Scholarship and Ministry of Education Huayu Enrichment Scholarship for the year 2010. These two scholarship programs will allow 6 U.S. students to pursue a Bachelor's, Master's or Doctoral Degree in the field of their choice, and at least 9 U.S. students to enhance their Chinese language ability for short term or one year at an university-affiliated language center in Taiwan starting from September 2010. A brief introduction for each scholarship program is stated as follows: The Taiwan Scholarship Program is designated to support foreign students in pursuing either undergraduate or graduate studies in Taiwan. The award period for each study program varies as follows: 1. Undergraduate program: maximum 4 years, monthly stipend NT$25,000 2. Master's program: maximum 2 years, monthly stipend NT$30,000 3. Doctoral program: maximum 3 years, monthly stipend NT$30,000 4. Successful scholarship candidates may be awarded an additional pre-degree Mandarin Language Enrichment Program (LEP) Scholarship for up to 12 months with a monthly stipend of NT$25,000. Those students interested in studying in Taiwan may choose to pursue their degree with English as the primary language of instruction or in Chinese. There are many degree programs taught in English in Taiwan. Such programs include but are not limited to the following: ● Chinese, International MBA, Electronic Engineering at National Taiwan University; ● IMBA, China Studies, and Taiwan Studies at National Chengchi University; ● Int'l Health, Biomedical Informatics at National Yang-Ming University; ● Tropical Agriculture at National Pingtun University of Science Technology ● Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University.   Learn more programs please click at this website. Should you need all the degree programs in different field, please search here. To encourage international students and individuals to undertake Mandarin Chinese language study in Taiwan, the Ministry of Education established the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (HES) Program in 2005, providing an excellent opportunity for international students to enhance their language skills and to gain new cultural experiences by being immersed in a Chinese-speaking environment. Recipients will be granted scholarship for award periods of 12, 9, 6, or 3 months. Please be advised that Overseas Chinese students are not eligible to apply for the Taiwan Scholarship and HES Programs. They should contact the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission (http://www.ocac.gov.tw) in order to apply for Overseas Chinese Student Scholarships. In the year 2010, 6 Taiwan Scholarships and 9 Huayu Enrichment Scholarships will be exclusively offered to US students in the Southwest, including Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Hawaii and Guam. All required application materials must be submitted to our office before March 31, 2010. For more detailed information about these two scholarship programs, please click  http://www.tw.org/scholarships/

 

January 29th lecture by Professor Wu in Faculty Center, UCLA

Wu Mi-Cha, professor of Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng Kong University in Taiwan, will present a talk with the topic

The Emergence of "History":A Survey of the History of Taiwanese Historiography

in the series New Directions in Taiwan Studies

Friday, January 29,2010. 

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Downstairs Lounge
Faculty Center

UCLA

Professor Wu will speak  in Chinese and translation will be provided.

Learn more about this event, please visit http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/events/

 

National Sun Yat-sen University Regains AACSB International Business Accreditation

AACSB International (Tampa, Florida) announced on January 7, 2010 that 45 schools have maintained their accreditation in Business; and National Sun Yat-sen University of Taiwan is one of them. AACSB International (AACSB) is the longest serving global accrediting body for business schools that offer undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in business and accounting.

According to AACSB news release, by gaining accreditation in business, institutions have become part of an elite group that makes up less than 5 percent of the world's business schools to have earned business accreditation. The total number of institutions that maintain specialized AACSB accreditation for their business schools are 579, across 35 countries.

 

The College of Management of National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) strives to be one of the best academic institutions of its kind and earned initial accreditation in business 5 years ago. Achieving and maintaining accreditation is a process of rigorous internal review, evaluation, and adjustment and can take several years to complete. During these years, the school develops and implements a plan to meet the 21 AACSB standards requiring a high quality teaching environment, a commitment to continuous improvement, and curricula responsive to the needs of business.

In addition to National Sun Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung), other universities in Taiwan, such as Fu Jen Catholic University (Taipei County), National Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu) National Chengchi University (Taipei City) are also accredited in Business by AACSB.

 

For more details regarding this accreditation, please click on the following link: https://www.aacsb.edu/media/releases/2010/accreditation-jan-10.asp.

January 29th lecture by Professor Wu Mi-cha

Wu Mi-Cha, professor of Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng Kong University
in Taiwan, will present a talk with the topic
The Emergence of "History":A Survey of the History of Taiwanese
Historiography
in the series New Directions in Taiwan Studies
Friday, January 29,2010.
4:30 Pm.
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Professor Wu will speak in Chinese and translation will be provided.
Learn more about this event, please visit
http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/events/

Reports raise eyebrows over Taiwan’s English levels

    Taiwan's secondary and tertiary students are falling behind the rest of Asia in terms of their English reading and writing skills, according to a local education consultant Dec. 17.

 

    Wang Shu-wei, Cambridge ESOL's marketing manager in Taiwan, said students in Taiwan tend to lose interest in English education after primary school, resulting in a drop-off in their reading and writing skills.

 

    "High school teaching often focuses on memorizing vocabulary and grammar, which bores students to death and causes them to lose interest in learning English," she said. "This pattern tends to carry over into tertiary education and explains students' poor ratings."

 

    According to Cambridge's latest testing data, local students aged 7 to 12 scored better than the global average in terms of English listening and speaking skills.

 

    A report issued by the U.S.-based Educational Testing Service also found that the island's secondary and tertiary students have poor English reading and writing skills.

 

    For more detailed report, please click Taiwan Today.

 

University head urges continuation of university development project

National Taiwan University (NTU) President Lee Si-chen expressed hope Saturday that the government will continue promoting a project to develop some of the nation's universities into some of the best in the world, the first five-year stage of which will expire at the end of 2010.

Thanks to the project, NTU recently achieved 95th place in the Higher Education league table of the London Times newspaper, up from 124th in 2008 and marking the first time a Taiwanese school has ranked among the world's top 100 universities on such a list.

In response to Lee's call, Minister of Education Wu Ching-chi promised that the plan will indeed continue and noted that it has the firm support of President Ma Ying-jeou.

 

10/24/2009 CAN reports, click here to view the complete report.

Ministry of Education will launch second Five-year NT$50 Billion Program to subsidize top single-field research

Minister of Education Wu Ching-chi said Tuesday that the country's second five-year NT$50 billion program to upgrade the nation's universities into top academic research centers, will focus on subsidizing top-notch, single-field academic research.

 

Minister Wu said details of the program were being discussed by a group of professors and experts led by Wong Chi-Huey, President of Academia Sinica, the most preeminent academic institution in Taiwan.

 

Wu said the program will mostly focus on subsidizing single-field research, such as the cognitive neuroscience research and the photonics research. Each year, the program will provide NT$ 10 billion in subsidies, Wu added.

Wu said the first five-year NT$50 billion program to boost academic institutions' quality will expire at the end of 2010. The program has already met its targets, given the fact that National Taiwan University (NTU) ranked among the world's top 100 universities for the first time this year.

For more detailed report, please click Taiwan Headlines