Universities ordered to improve English offerings

The Control Yuan has urged the Ministry of Education in Taiwan to look into why four universities receiving special project funding failed to offer 20% of all courses in each grade taught entirely in English, write Chung Li-hua and Jake Chung for the Taipei Times.

According to his investigation, Control Yuan member Peter Chang said that National Taiwan University only offers 5% of courses in each grade in English, while National Cheng Kung University averaged 10%, National Chiao Tung University averaged 10 to 13%, and National Tsing Hua University, while better than the others, still averaged under 20%.

Of the four universities participating in the ministry’s programme, the report found that National Taiwan University offered 20 English-taught programmes, National Cheng Kung University offered two and National Tsing Hua University only offered one, while figures for National Chiao Tung University were not provided, Chang said. The findings show that the four universities are lagging behind their international peers in terms of competitiveness, he added.
Full report on the Taipei Times site