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Slightly fewer study in US

The number of Taiwanese students enrolled in US colleges and universities has decreased slightly since last year, the Ministry of Education’s Bureau of International, Cultural and Educational Relations said yesterday. Citing statistics from this year’s Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange by the Institute of International Education in the US, the bureau said 29,001 Taiwanese students enrolled in schools in the US this year. The total dropped 0.3 percent from last year’s 29,094 students, the bureau said. The number of international students studying in the US this year rose by 7 percent to 623,805 from 582,984 last year, the institute’s figures showed. Taiwanese students were in sixth place in terms of the number of students in the US, accounting for about 4.6 percent of the foreign students, after India, China, South Korea, Japan and Canada. The majority of the Taiwanese students in the US are pursuing postgraduate degrees, with 55.4 percent attending graduate school, 26 percent enrolled in undergraduate programs and 11 percent enrolled in a postgraduate internship, the bureau said.



■ EDUCATION

Hoklo phrase site launched

The Ministry of Education has launched a Web site aimed at teaching Hoklo (also known as Taiwanese) pronunciation. The Web site, titled “I Can Also Speak Taiwan’s Hoklo: On-line Pronunciation Web,” contains about 400 Hoklo phrases, the ministry said. Users can see the Taiwanese Romanization of the phrases and listen to audio files of their pronunciation, the ministry said. Example sentences containing the phrases are also available. The Chinese-language Web site is at guamae.moe.gov.tw.


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