Doctoral Education in an Aging Society: Strategies and Challenges in Taiwan

Hsieh, Chuo-Chun

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“…Currently, many universities in Taiwan have passed the certification. The departments of universities in Taiwan would be exempt from domestic evaluation, as long as the business departments have passed the certification of AACSB, and the engineering departments have passed the certification of IEET (Hsieh and Yen, 2009). It can be known that since 2000, Taiwan's Ministry of Education has actively encouraged the internationalization of colleges and universities, accepting the inspection of IQA agencies, so as to promote the improvement of the overall quality of higher education and solve the problem of educational quality imbalance in Taiwan.…”

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“…Higher education is under the impact of child reduction, excessive number of universities and internationalization, leading to an imbalance in the quality of education, making education quality the focus of the development of higher education in Taiwan (Educational Research and Development Committee, 2011). The IQA of higher education in Taiwan is still working hard to develop; in terms of evaluation institutions, the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan has been recognized by International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) and Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) in 2007 to become a full member in order to improve quality and integrate with the trends of IQA (Hsieh and Yen, 2009). The Department of Higher Education in Taiwan is also actively studying whether domestic universities are compatible with the standards of IQA organizations, and how the domestic evaluation system is in line with international standards (Huang and Wu, 2010).…”

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Internationalization of quality assurance and the international quality of higher education in Taiwan

Chien¹

2023

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PurposeThis study employs survey methods to statistically examine the internationalization of quality assurance (IQA) in Taiwanese higher education. The data collected were analyzed to assess the associations between administrators' opinions of the importance of IQA and their evaluations of its implementation, as well as the relationship between implementation and opinions on seven measures of international quality. The study also explores the mediating effect of implementation assessments on the relationship between opinions of the importance of IQA and opinions of international quality.Design/methodology/approachThis study targeted higher education administrators from universities in Taiwan, including presidents, vice presidents, deans, section chiefs, directors, and heads of schools in various departments. Using systematic sampling methods, 80 universities were selected from a population of 159 higher education institutions in Taiwan, with 17-40 potential participants each in 2015. A total of 2,377 questionnaires were distributed to all the administrators of those institutions, and ultimately, 65 institutions and 337 valid questionnaires were analyzed.FindingsThe importance of IQA directly and positively influenced implementation of it on higher education institutions. The implementation directly and positively influenced the level of international quality of the institutions and the importance of IQA had an indirect positive influence on international quality through implementation. The aggregated institution-level results were similar to but much stronger than the individual-level results.Originality/valueThis study examined the IQA of higher education in Taiwan, which is increasingly important to institutions' competitiveness in the global higher education market. The data were analyzed using multilevel structural equation modeling at the individual-level and the aggregate-level. The analysis revealed direct and indirect associations between opinions about IQA and institutional quality. This study makes a significant contribution to the literature because it clarifies the role of administrators (individually and collectively) regarding their institutions' educational quality, and it provides useful information that institutions could apply to improve their international competitiveness.

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Internationalization of quality assurance and the international quality of higher education in Taiwan

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2023

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General education competencies from students’ perspectives: a case study of a sports university in Taiwan

Lin

2023

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In this highly competitive world, many students seem to focus more on getting a degree rather than on cultivating general education competencies. The study adopted importance-performance analysis (IPA) to assess sports university students’ opinions of general education competencies and the quality of the general education programme. The findings showed that students thought highly of the competencies surveyed; however, there was a quality performance gap for the competencies. In addition, students’ priorities of the competencies reflected the characteristics of their college; and their perceptions of importance could predict their satisfaction with the general education programme. It is recommended that features of competencies-based education (CBE) be utilized to allow learning to be more flexible and student-centred for sports university students. What’s more, both teachers and students need to be made aware of what the competencies mean and why it is necessary to have these abilities. The study concluded that IPA provided information from students’ perspectives, but improving students’ satisfaction and providing quality education that students really need should go hand in hand. This requires the university to interpret IPA results with careful consideration of the context.

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Doctoral Education in an Aging Society: Strategies and Challenges in Taiwan

Cited by 2 publications

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Internationalization of quality assurance and the international quality of higher education in Taiwan

Internationalization of quality assurance and the international quality of higher education in Taiwan

General education competencies from students’ perspectives: a case study of a sports university in Taiwan

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