Taiwan's Responses to Globalisation: Internationalisation and Questing for World Class Universities

Autor/inn/en	Song, Mei-Mei; Tai, Hsiou-Hsia
Titel	Taiwan's Responses to Globalisation: Internationalisation and Questing for World Class Universities
Quelle	In: Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 27 (2007) 3, S.323-340 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0218-8791
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Grants; Educational Policy; Global Approach; International Trade; Competition; Educational Quality; International Education; Trend Analysis; Research; Science Education; Academic Achievement; Technology Education; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Globales Denken; Trade; International relations; Handel; Internationale Beziehungen; Wettkampf; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Internationale Erziehung; Trendanalyse; Forschung; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Schulleistung; Technisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht
Abstract	In recent years, Taiwan has demonstrated strong policy change to counteract the potential threats brought upon by globalisation such as the opening of the higher education market to a foreign trade partner and increasing competition from neighbouring countries. In light of these challenges, the Taiwanese government launched a series of unprecedented mega-sized initiatives in the hope of enhancing the quality of the country's higher education in the global sphere. These programmes outlined two major themes: internationalisation and the quest for world-class universities. This paper depicts four major government initiatives and their impact on Taiwan's higher education, as well as the controversy that surrounds them. Some policy trends are observed in these programs: strong emphasis on research, strong emphasis on science and technology, further stratification of the higher education system, attempts to advance academic excellence through internationalisation, multiple functions of the government grants, and the Ministry of Education's continuing endeavour to direct university development and be outwardly "fair" to colleges and universities. (Contains 4 tables and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10