Students from Indonesia Compete to Study in Taiwan

In mid-July the director of the Ministry ofEducation, Wu Ching Ji, went to Southeast Asia to investigate and help TaiwanUniversities to select outstanding students with their studies. Starting nextyear Acheh Province of Indonesia, which has received donations from manycountries following the devastating tsunami, will start sending 50 outstandingstudents to Taiwan per year to study their master's degrees.

Last week Wu Ching Ji, fresh back from histrip to Southeast Asia, said that Southeast Asian countries are very interestedin Taiwan higher education and that at this year's higher education expo whichwas hosted in Malaysia more than twenty thousand students visited the boothsfor Taiwan schools.  And also, that Achehprovince of Indonesia, in addition to the 75 public funded students that willbe sent to Taiwan to study master's and PhD degrees this year, will also select50 students a year in the following years to Taiwan for studies. Indonesia willalso send approximately 20 high school principals and representatives to 7-10high schools and higher education institutes to visit and see what thesituation is like because attracting Southeast Asian students to local schoolsis in everybody's best interest.

Wu Ching Ji also gave his approval of Taiwan's decision to send a group of stellar high school students to mainlandChina and Hong Kong for studies after this years recruitment numbers came out.He also called for students who will be attending higher education institutesin Taiwan to have confidence in the competitive ability and that students whostudy high school in Taiwan and then later go abroad to studies their master's and PhD degrees will be well equipped.

The Ministry of Education alsowanted to remind students that until the "three laws" for studentsstudying in mainland China are passed there is a risk that their degrees willnot be recognized.

 

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