Pan-blue camp legislators yesterday demanded the Ministry of Education revoke the appointment of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) president Huang Kuang-tsae (黃光彩), ac-cusing him of not being qualified for the job.
During the education committee's question-and-answer session at the Legislative Yuan yesterday, several legislators again queried Huang's qualifications, saying his experience as a program manager at the Institute of Systems Science (ISS) at Singapore University from 1989 to 1995 had not met the prerequisites of the position.
Disgraced People First Party (PFP) Legislator Diane Lee (李慶安) said Huang claimed to have been the director of the Multimedia and Communication Laboratory at the ISS in his application to the ministry.
After questioning ISS staff, however, Lee said she discovered that Huang was not lab director but a program manager at the institute who had a salary similar to that of a professor.
"Huang was neither a professor nor a director. He is not qualified to be a university president," Lee said.
Lee said the ISS had been founded by Singapore University with the assistance of IBM 10 years ago, and claimed that it was not a formal institute of the university.
According to the Statute Governing the Employment of Educational Personnel (教育人員任用條例), university presidents are required to have served as a superintendent or director of an educational institute for at least four years.
Minister of Education Tu Cheng-sheng (杜正勝) yesterday said he selected Huang because the university was at a juncture and in need of change, and that Huang had a successful track record in bringing about change at other institutes.
Tu said the ministry had confirmed Huang's qualifications with ISS director Lin Rei-chang (林瑞昌). According to Lin, Huang had been the "head of the research departments of the ISS" and "Huang's qualification was equal to that of a professor."
Accused by PFP Legislator Lee Yung-ping (李永萍) of attempting to place political allies in the university system, Tu angrily replied that he did not know Huang before the appointment process and that a political appointment was the last thing he would initiate.
"I would have no problem with the Control Yuan launching an investigation into this matter, and I'm confident that the [ministry] did not make an error in the selection," Tu said.
After earning a PhD degree in electronic engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Huang served as a senior manager at IBM for 18 years.
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