Taiwan Universities: Where to Go?

Kuo, Yu-Ying

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“…With the massification and universalization of higher education, teaching excellence, and students' learning quality have also become matters of sincere concern. Moreover, facing the challenges of economic globalization, Taiwan's higher education sector has attempted to improve its competitiveness to attract more international students (Kuo, 2016). The implementation of education affects the development and promotion of the country (Shih et al, 2020).…”

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General education in Taiwan’s universities: Development, challenges, and role

Shih

Wang

2022

Policy Futures in Education

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General education is closely tied to universities because the holistic and liberal elements of modern general education are key ideals of both traditional Chinese and Western universities. General education plays a key role in the sustainable development of universities and the realization of their educational ideals. This study discusses the development and challenges of general education in Taiwan’s universities, and the role of general education in the sustainable development of universities. According to a literature review, this study explores the following roles: (1) general education as the foundation of university professional education; (2) general education reform as the foundation of university education reform; (3) general education as the educational ideal of universities; (4) general education as a solution for the “knowledge-only” and “dehumanization” problems of universities; (5) general education as a buffer between technology and humanities in universities; (6) general education as a tool for the enrichment of university culture; and (7) general education as a means to achieve the goals of universities and promote their sustainable development.

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General education in Taiwan’s universities: Development, challenges, and role

Shih

Wang

2022

Policy Futures in Education

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“…For the past ten years, Taiwan higher education institutions are suffering from the problematic decreased in numbers of incoming students (Kuo, 2016;Tran, 2017). Currently, the ministry of education predicted that the number of new freshmen students will have a 40 percent dropped by the year 2028 (Fulco, 2018).…”

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The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii 2021 Official Conference Proceedings

2021

IICE Official Conference Proceedings

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Use of online learning opportunities among language teachers and learners has become one of the commonly utilized tools as they provide effective means (convenient, accessible, authentic and sometimes free) to learn a foreign language. Research shows that online learning opportunities, particularly YouTube -a popular video sharing and viewing platform creates more meaningful and independent learning environment (e.g. Alhamami, 2013; Benson, 2015; Lacy, 2008), compared to other conventional way of learning a foreign language. This research reports on how two English language lecturers at a Mongolian University used stories available free of charge on YouTube to help students improve their listening and transfer of skills such as pronunciation, reading comprehension, note taking and speaking. This research project was initiated because of an increased interest to utilize YouTube in learning English from students studying at the University. The two lecturers took the students' desire on board and developed learning tasks for students to do independently outside the classroom (hereinafter self-independent work) using stories on YouTube. The fact that students were already using YouTube to learn English outside the curriculum was a positive start to the research project. The research project was implemented for a period of one year among first year English as a foreign language (EFL) students. The study results show that when learning content is easily accessible (ability to listen outside the classroom, on their phones, when travelling and walking etc.) and when there is a genuine desire to listen to an interesting story of their choice, students are more likely to effectively work on the learning tasks associated with the stories which in turn helped them to develop their language skills efficiently. However, limited access to WiFi or Internet, not seeking available support to execute the task were issues to develop the skills and independent learning style, despite a strong desire to learn English using YouTube.

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“…However, the changes in policies are not enough to clarify why HK students pursue their undergraduate degree in Taiwan. It is because of the problems of excessive admissions and the relatively low-quality teaching in Taiwan is notorious because of the wide expansion of universities in the late 1980s (Kuo, 2016). So then, why do students still apply to study in Taiwan?…”

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Cross-border to Taiwan but not China

Choy

Lau

2019

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Purpose This study aims to find out why some students from Hong Kong (HK) consider higher education in Taiwan, rather than in China or elsewhere. It also attempts to build a decision-making model to advance the conventional push-pull logic associated with this particular issue. Design/methodology/approach The authors interviewed 11 undergraduate students from HK via an in-depth interview. Interviewees were recruited by snowball sampling. To protect the privacy of the interviewees, all names of the informants in this paper are pseudonyms. Findings A dynamic decision-making mechanism, which includes three major layers, namely, the macro, meso and micro levels, has been developed to demonstrate that HK students made their decision based on a recursive fashion with bounded rationality, rather than on a linear fashion with complete rationality. Research limitations/implications Although the relatively small number of interviewees has limited the representativeness of the research, the authors suggest that rather than claiming representativeness, the study attempts to tease out the diversity of the decision-making process and mechanisms. Originality/value The drastic increase in the number of HK students in Taiwan proves the current research study, which is the first qualitative research on the phenomenon, as a timely one. In addition, the present study is one of the few examples of studying students’ international mobility from a more economically advanced region (HK) to a less economically advanced one (Taiwan).

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Taiwan Universities: Where to Go?

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

General education in Taiwan’s universities: Development, challenges, and role

General education in Taiwan’s universities: Development, challenges, and role

The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii 2021 Official Conference Proceedings

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