romanworld
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 8:48 pm Post subject: Subsidy funding for universities to be decreased |
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Subsidy funding for universities in the five-year-plan era will shrink by 15 percent from next year following a report by the Legislative Yuan’s Budget Center that said the plan has failed to meet three intended targets, as well as National Taiwan University’s (NTU) first-ever slide in its world ranking, the Ministry of Education said in a recent report.
The plan is the second stage of the Road to Top Notch Universities Project that began in 2011, with the ministry allocating NT$50 billion (US$1.6 billion) over five years to universities in the hope of boosting research facilities and international reputations.
However, with the NTU’s slide from the top 51 to 60 universities last year to the top 61 to 70 this year, in accordance with the Times Higher Education World University Rankings published on March 12, and the Budget Center’s discovery of three unmet target indices, the project’s implementation has again been questioned.
According to the center’s investigation, up until 2013 the project had not met the target indices for attracting 200 people who are academicians or members of important societies and associations among full-time university faculty; an increase of 695 items per year of patents or new researches; and 100 percent growth in income based on intellectual property rights.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/04/05/2003615206/1
Does the MOE really think that Taiwan's universities can become top-notch? These mandarins are really delusional. They should just get real and realise that their reach will never exceed their grasp. |
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