Taiwan’s higher education institutions are very competitive and will attract high-quality students from China, Minister of Education Wu Ching-ji (吳清基) said on Tuesday, amid concerns over a narrow recruitment window as the date for the implementation of a new admissions policy approaches.
Under a government policy to conditionally allow local universities to admit Chinese students, online applications for the first intake in September will be open for one month to prospective graduate students starting on Saturday and for prospective undergraduates beginning on May 16.
However, some university presidents are worried that there is not enough time for successful recruitment because they have not had much support from their counterparts in China.
Chen Chen-kui (陳振貴), president of Ling Tung University, said at a forum in Taipei that it was difficult for Taiwanese schools to promote themselves in China given the -limited time.
Private universities in China are regarded by Chinese students and parents as money-making machines, so private schools in Taiwan who are trying to attract Chinese students will first have to overcome that impression, Shih Hsin University president Lai Ting-ming (賴鼎銘) said.
However, Wu said the country’s higher education institutions will be appealing to Chinese students because there is no language barrier and tuition is relatively cheap compared with that in Hong Kong, Singapore and Western countries.
Moreover, faculty members at Taiwanese universities are passionate about teaching and 70 percent of them hold doctoral -degrees, Wu said.
However, Lai said that despite the high quality of Taiwan’s private universities, it is not easy to promote them in the vast China market without the help of Chinese schools.
With very little such help, Taiwanese universities have hit a snag, he said.
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