Chinese students who come to Taiwan for short-term research and study will soon be granted six more months of stay, Vice Minister of Education Lu Mu-lin (呂木琳) said yesterday.
At a press conference after briefing Premier Liu Chao-shiuan (劉兆玄), Lu said Chinese students would be allowed to stay in Taiwan for a maximum of one year after the ministry amended regulations.
The policy may take effect in the winter break next February at the earliest, Lu said.
The policy is one of the ministry’s four main goals to broaden cross-strait academic exchanges.
The other three objectives include allowing Chinese students to obtain degrees in Taiwan; gradually recognizing Chinese diplomas and allowing Taiwanese universities to offer continuing education and degree programs for students with full-time jobs in China.
“These are very good policies ... some of them may begin in October or November while policies that require more planning or [cross-strait] negotiation may be executed in January or February next year,” Liu told reporters.
As for the recognition of diplomas from universities in China, Lu said a ministry-level task force was still deliberating the criteria for recognition.
Meanwhile, Liu asked the ministry to discuss the possibility of requiring all high school seniors to take a joint exam before they graduate. It would serve as a threshold to manage the quality of high school graduates.
The suggestion came after the ministry proposed plans to help universities set admission and graduation thresholds for students.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫), spokeswoman Yang Chih-yu (楊智伃) and Legislator Hsieh Lung-chieh (謝龍介) would be summoned by police for questioning for leading an illegal assembly on Thursday evening last week, Minister of the Interior Liu Shyh-fang (劉世芳) said today. The three KMT officials led an assembly outside the Taipei City Prosecutors’ Office, a restricted area where public assembly is not allowed, protesting the questioning of several KMT staff and searches of KMT headquarters and offices in a recall petition forgery case. Chu, Yang and Hsieh are all suspected of contravening the Assembly and Parade Act (集會遊行法) by holding
PRAISE: Japanese visitor Takashi Kubota said the Taiwanese temple architecture images showcased in the AI Art Gallery were the most impressive displays he saw Taiwan does not have an official pavilion at the World Expo in Osaka, Japan, because of its diplomatic predicament, but the government-backed Tech World pavilion is drawing interest with its unique recreations of works by Taiwanese artists. The pavilion features an artificial intelligence (AI)-based art gallery showcasing works of famous Taiwanese artists from the Japanese colonial period using innovative technologies. Among its main simulated displays are Eastern gouache paintings by Chen Chin (陳進), Lin Yu-shan (林玉山) and Kuo Hsueh-hu (郭雪湖), who were the three young Taiwanese painters selected for the East Asian Painting exhibition in 1927. Gouache is a water-based
Taiwan would welcome the return of Honduras as a diplomatic ally if its next president decides to make such a move, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said yesterday. “Of course, we would welcome Honduras if they want to restore diplomatic ties with Taiwan after their elections,” Lin said at a meeting of the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, when asked to comment on statements made by two of the three Honduran presidential candidates during the presidential campaign in the Central American country. Taiwan is paying close attention to the region as a whole in the wake of a
OFF-TARGET: More than 30,000 participants were expected to take part in the Games next month, but only 6,550 foreign and 19,400 Taiwanese athletes have registered Taipei city councilors yesterday blasted the organizers of next month’s World Masters Games over sudden timetable and venue changes, which they said have caused thousands of participants to back out of the international sporting event, among other organizational issues. They also cited visa delays and political interference by China as reasons many foreign athletes are requesting refunds for the event, to be held from May 17 to 30. Jointly organized by the Taipei and New Taipei City governments, the games have been rocked by numerous controversies since preparations began in 2020. Taipei City Councilor Lin Yen-feng (林延鳳) said yesterday that new measures by
RSS