The Ministry of Education (MOE) denied a report yesterday that the nation’s 73 private universities would accept 2,000 students from China for one semester in September and recognize the credits they earn in Taiwan.
Chou Yi-shun (周以順), executive secretary of the ministr’s Mainland Affairs Division, said Taiwanese schools would only provide Chinese students conducting short-term research in Taiwan with “letters of certification” rather than “proof of credits.”
Issuance of letters of certification does not entail recognition of the students’ Chinese diplomas, he said.
Chou was responding to a story published in China’s English-language China Daily which on March 28 quoted Shan Yangzhong (陝陽忠), an official at the China Senior College Exhibition Organization Committee, as saying that Taiwan’s 73 private universities would accept applications from about 2,000 Chinese students for the fall semester and that the credits they earned would be accepted by both Taiwan and China.
Taiwan currently does not recognize Chinese credentials.
Although the ministry has listed recognition of Chinese diplomas and recruitment of Chinese students as one of the its policies since the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) came to power in 2008, the legislature has yet approved relevant legal amendments that would make it possible to do so.
Chou said the ministry imposes a 1,000-person-per-year ceiling on the number of Chinese students allowed to come to Taiwan to conduct research lasting a maximum of one year, though there is no cap on the number of Chinese students pursuing short-term research of less than six months.
Chou added that the number of Chinese students in Taiwan doing short-term research has grown from around 200 in 2005 to about 2,800, last year.
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