Centralising, decentralising, and recentralising: a case study of the university-government relationship in Taiwan

Lin, Warangkana; Yang, Rui

doi:10.1080/1360080x.2020.1724599

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“…Despite the highly institutionalized Western education system, traditional heritage and values remain pervasive in Taiwan. While the government attempts to liberate its higher education system to promote modern universities’ core values, the Ministry of Education retains its supervisory role, demonstrating the longstanding sociopolitical order in Sinic societies (Lin & Yang, 2021).…”

Section: Early Imitation Of Taiwan’s Modern University Modelmentioning

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“…Operating Western-style university models in the Confucian societies of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan has never been easy. With the salient role of the government in East Asia, the notions of academic freedom and autonomy can be interpreted differently from their Western origin (Lin & Yang, 2021), where the tension between power and truth is considered healthy (Yang, 2022). Altbach (2016) cited China as an example of the “glass ceiling” phenomena, arguing that China’s higher education institutions’ impressive rise in some global rankings is not sustainable and will soon top out.…”

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“…Chan and Yang (2017) proposed the notion of a hybrid university model after their empirical observation of two universities that combined Western and Confucian intellectual values. More recently, Lin and Yang (2021) conducted a cultural examination to understand the government’s role in stimulating universities in their quest for world-class status.…”

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Revitalizing cultural consciousness in Taiwan’s higher education: Ambitions and Tensions

Lin

Yang

2022

International Journal of Chinese Education

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Contextualizing cultural foundations of modern university development has increasingly been ubiquitous. This paper probes cultural awareness of Taiwan’s academia in times of change. Despite the government-driven motives to impose Western indicators in measuring success, the study’s empirical evidence reveals that Taiwanese academics cherish their traditional culture. Ambitions were spawned from attempts to underpin their higher education system along cultural lines, while tensions were escalated when coping with the government policy benchmarking against Western standards. Citing the perspectives of two premier universities’ executives and faculty members, Taiwan’s academic society shares cultural affinities to rally a blended model that synthesizes its longstanding indigenized values and imported Western experiences. Revitalizing cultural consciousness calls for alternatives to Taiwan’s existing Western-oriented model of higher education.

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2022

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“…Hsu (2019) The evolution of quality assurance in higher education in Taiwan: The changes and the effects at different levels 13. Lin and Yang (2021) Centralising, decentralising, and recentralising: A case study of the universitygovernment relationship in Taiwan. 14.…”

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“…The Ministry of Education (MOE) initiated policies that revised the higher education law and established the Executive Yuan Education Reform Commission (Chan & Yang, 2018). Fundamentally, the MOE aimed to move higher education institutes away from the centralised control to deregulate, decentralise, democratise and internationalise (Lin & Yang, 2021). The MOE purported to liberalise the higher education market and bring the principles of free trade and competition.…”

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Challenges of Collective Inertia and Scarcity to Technological and Vocational Education Universities

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The massification of higher education institutions in Taiwan, typically in universities of science and technology, creates competition for resources and currently threatens foreclosures in Taiwan’s higher education system. To answer this challenge amid global competition among universities, the Ministry of Education (MOE) implemented the World-Class Research University Project, creating the initiative for higher education institutions to quickly gain world-class status with the reasonable belief that strong global visibility would attract much needed international resources to supplement local ones. However, the race for global reputation has created highly stressful environments for faculty members to publish research papers in highly regarded international journals. In highlighting fundamental paradoxes of the system and the rationale behind them, this paper attempts to stimulate a much-needed reflection that might pave the way for rational and empirical efforts to transform higher education in Taiwan. This paper also reveals that the emphasis on speed-up achievement has overwhelmed the original academic missions of higher education and placed academics in a scarcity mindset with quantity drowning essence. The primary mechanism for keeping the current system is the collective inertia that limits academics from breaking out of the mould of habitual approaches. This paper discusses all sorts of findings, reported events, theoretical ideas, and inherent contradictions in relation to Taiwan universities in an attempt to frame the essential background on the problems in terms of scarcity mindset and inertial thinking. Finally, the paper provides some suggested solutions. The reflection in this paper may inspire faculty members in higher technological and vocational education programs to lead school administration and industry development with practical and updated knowledge. It is crucial to revitalising faculty members’ educational enthusiasm through building professional autonomy and self-efficacy.

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Adopting neoliberal values in Taiwan’s higher education governance: a hybridisation process

Chan

Yang

2023

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

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Centralising, decentralising, and recentralising: a case study of the university-government relationship in Taiwan

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Revitalizing cultural consciousness in Taiwan’s higher education: Ambitions and Tensions

Revitalizing cultural consciousness in Taiwan’s higher education: Ambitions and Tensions

Challenges of Collective Inertia and Scarcity to Technological and Vocational Education Universities

Adopting neoliberal values in Taiwan’s higher education governance: a hybridisation process

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