Yuan Ze University in Chungli, northern Taiwan, has jumped the gun by offering the first Executive Masters in Business Administration (EMBA) classes to Taiwanese business people operating in China, faculty sources at the school said yesterday.
Yuan Ze University's management school began accepting registration reservations yesterday for credits to be earned in the EMBA extension program. By doing so, it became the first Taiwan-based institute to begin offering extension programs outside of Taiwan since the Ministry of Education acquiesced to local universities' demands in August to be allowed to offer extension programs in Southeast Asia and China.
Since the extension education program will not officially take effect until February, Lee Yung-hui (
The Yuan Ze management school is expected initially to open classes in three subjects in the credit-granting program, which, according to Lee, will be available at three schools in Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai.
Education Ministry officials said earlier this year that the extension classes to be opened in China will cater only to Taiwanese businesspeople until such time as the government grants credentials to Chinese schools.
Although Education Minister Ovid Tzeng has said he hopes the policy of acknowledging academic credits granted by Chinese schools will be confirmed by the end of the year, many local universities have jumped the gun by contracting mainland school authorities in the hopes of opening extension classes for Taiwanese businesspeople there.
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