TAIWAN - Talent-strapped Taiwan seeks 20,000 ‘special’ professionals, 200,000 overseas students amid talent push

Title:

Talent-strapped Taiwan seeks 20,000 ‘special’ professionals, 200,000 overseas students amid talent push

 

Author:

Ralph Jennings

 

Published:

South China Morning Post, 2 February 2023

https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3208748/talent-strapped-taiwan-seeks-20000-special-professionals-200000-overseas-students-amid-talent-push?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article&campaign=3208748

From the news article:

* Taiwan said in September that it was looking to attract 400,000 foreign workers by 2030 amid competition from the likes of Hong Kong, mainland China and Singapore 

 

* Taiwan’s domestic workforce is set to shrink after its population declined by last year due to a historically low number of births and the most deaths ever

Relocating the education reform movement: how have universities in Taiwan experienced Neoliberalization? [Scholarly Article - Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022]

Title:

Relocating the education reform movement: how have universities in Taiwan experienced Neoliberalization? 

Author:

Ming-Te Peng

Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, London, UK

 

Published:

Asia Pacific Education Review, 6 May 2022

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12564-022-09765-6 

 

Abstract:

Based on the higher education reform experience in Taiwan, this research elucidates the conditions for the marketization of universities. It draws on critical discourse analysis to explore power relations between higher education, society, and the government and suggests that the university has always been considered a valuable resource for state development. By analyzing the heterogeneity of discourses used in official documents and the academic literature, this research identifies the social contradictions that triggered the education reform movement in the 1990s, including humanistic resistance against economic utility, educational inequality, and demand for academic autonomy. Neoliberalization in higher education is shown as a contemporary model for mobilizing academic resources in indirect but effective ways, with the aim of mapping both neoliberal practices in Taiwan and their connections with the global trend of marketizing higher education.

Taiwan's worst drought in decades deepens chip shortage jitters [TechXplore, April 2021]

Title:

Taiwan's worst drought in decades deepens chip shortage jitters

 

Author:

Amber Wang

 

Published:

TechXplore, 21 April 2021

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-04-taiwan-worst-drought-decades-deepens.html

 

From the article:

Taiwan is home to some of the world's biggest and most advanced high-tech foundries, a linchpin of a global $450 billion industry that provides the computing power for essential devices, but is extremely water-intensive.

TAIWAN - Drive for English-taught degrees to lure foreign students (by Yojana Sharma)

Title:

Drive for English-taught degrees to lure foreign students

 

Author:

Yojana Sharma

 

Published:

University World News, 13 November 2020

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20201113080352722

From the article:

Taiwan’s education ministry is pushing forward with its goal of bilingual English-Chinese education in schools and more university degrees and postgraduate courses taught in English as part of an effort to attract foreign students to plug a demographic gap, improve the country’s competitiveness and to compete head-on with universities in Hong Kong and Singapore.

TAIWAN - Ministry to push English at universities

Title:

Ministry to push English at universities

 

By:

Taipei Times

 

Published:

University World News, 10 October 2020

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20201010213105741

 

From the article:

The Ministry of Education aims to have 90% of doctoral degree courses, 70% of masters degree courses and 50% of undergraduate courses at four universities taught in English within the next few years, write Rachel Lin, Wu Po-hsuan and William Hetherington for the Taipei Times.

China - New online conference rules raise academic freedom fears

Title:
New online conference rules raise academic freedom fears

Author:
Mimi Leung

Published:
University World News, 1 September 2020
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200901210803801

From the article:
Peking University, one of China’s top universities has announced new rules for attending online conferences organised overseas, including in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. Applications by academics and researchers to take part will have to be vetted by university authorities in advance.

Short Article - University networks are key to solving crises like Covid-19

Title:
University networks are key to solving crises like Covid-19

Author:
Chia-Ming Hsueh

Published:
Times Higher Education, 28 April 2020

From the article:
Taiwan’s response to the coronavirus has been impressive but fighting future global emergencies will require greater collective effort, says Chia-Ming Hsueh.

To read this article:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/university-networks-are-key-solving-crises-covid-19