China is now ahead of Australia and Canada in the list of favorite destinations for Taiwanese seeking to study abroad, a study shows.
In an online survey by Readers’ Digest with 892 high school students at the end of last month, the US remained the favorite choice, with 74 percent of respondents voting for the US when asked to name the countries in which they would like to pursue advanced studies. Respondents were allowed to list more than one country.
The UK came in second, with 28 percent of the votes, followed by China at 22 percent and Australia and Canada, each at 19 percent, the survey showed.
Taiwan will start recognizing Chinese diplomas this year and hold screening examinations for credentials obtained between Sept. 18, 1992, and Sept. 3 last year.
The government announced it would accept Chinese diplomas on Sept. 18, 1992, but the legislature did not pass relevant laws until September last year.
Medical degrees, however, will remain excluded from the recognition.
The poll showed that 32 percent of respondents were concerned about a school’s reputation when choosing a university, while 27 percent said they looked at the quality of the faculty.
Meanwhile, Association of Private Universities and Colleges of Technology president Chen Chen-kuei (陳振貴) was quoted by the survey as saying he had reservations about whether Taiwanese universities would be able to fill the 2,000 vacancies for Chinese students in September.
Universities will begin to enroll students from China in September. The Ministry of Education has capped the total number of vacancies at 2,000 per year in the initial stage of the recruitment.
Chen said it would be very challenging for Taiwanese schools to fill the openings this year, adding that universities in Hong Kong only managed to recruit a total of two students from China when they were first allowed to enroll Chinese students in 2002.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching