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Seymour Glass
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 Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 4:28 am Post subject: Professor Shortage |
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This was an article recently in the Taiwan News, despite lower enrollement numbers and the closing of universities, they still say they are facing a teacher shortage, there is and will be a demand for English and the use of teaching subjects in English in universities here...all is not lost in Formosa...
EDUCATION
Teacher shortage likely
Taiwan can expect a shortage of teachers in its higher education institutions in the next 10 years when 25 percent of current faculty reaches retirement age, a Ministry of Education official said earlier this week. Currently, one out of every four full-time teachers in colleges and universities is more than 55 years old, Deputy Minister of Education Chen Der-hwa (陳德華) said, citing the ministry’s latest statistics. He predicted that about 12,000 faculty members will retire within the next 10 years, leading to a shortage of academics in the higher-education system. To address the problem, the ministry is drafting a plan to encourage students to enter academia and fill some of the vacancies expected to open up at universities and colleges, Chen said. The ministry plans to convene a forum of higher-education management executives, academics and other experts to discuss the issue, he said. |
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romanworld
Joined: 27 May 2008
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| Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:38 am Post subject: Re: Professor Shortage |
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| Seymour Glass wrote: |
| Taiwan can expect a shortage of teachers in its higher education institutions in the next 10 years when 25 percent of current faculty reaches retirement age, a Ministry of Education official said earlier this week. Currently, one out of every four full-time teachers in colleges and universities is more than 55 years old, Deputy Minister of Education Chen Der-hwa (陳德華) said, citing the ministry’s latest statistics. He predicted that about 12,000 faculty members will retire within the next 10 years, leading to a shortage of academics in the higher-education system. To address the problem, the ministry is drafting a plan to encourage students to enter academia and fill some of the vacancies expected to open up at universities and colleges, Chen said. The ministry plans to convene a forum of higher-education management executives, academics and other experts to discuss the issue, he said. |
Two things to say about this: 1. Salaries will never be high enough in Taiwan to attract overseas profs; and 2. the fact that 1 in 4 teachers in colleges and universities are over 55 demonstrates how conservative and inflexible the academic environment is in Taiwan. Young western profs would get frustrated dealing with a creaky old bureaucracy that rewards age and not merit. Again the MOE are just clutching at straws. |
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