UC San Diego + Higher Education in Taiwan

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(1) 邀达赖喇嘛做演讲 美国高校遭北京惩罚？  德国之声, Sept 21, 2017
http://www.dw.com/zh/%E9%82%80%E ... ?&zhongwen=simp
("中国留学基金委 -China Scholarship Council (CSC) ] 近日 [Sept 17] 停止办理公派赴加州圣迭戈分校留学事宜")

(2) Chris Parr, Could Chinese Demand Plug Taiwan's Higher Education Hole?  Taiwan hopes that attracting students from further afield, particularly mainland China, will help to address its higher education crisis. But this in turn brings challenges, including compromised academic freedom. THE, Sept 21. 2017
https://www.timeshighereducation ... gher-education-hole

Quote:

"Tuition fees at the five top-ranked universities in Taiwan range from NT$45,000 to NT$79,000 (£1,100 to £2,000) per year."

"the demographic issue. According to deputy education minister Yao Leehter 教育部政務次長 姚立德 [that is PRC naming without a hyphen; Taiwanese spelling: YAO Leeh-ter], the number of prospective undergraduates could plummet to just 723,000 over the next 10 years or so. This would represent a decline of more than 410,000 compared with 2013

Note:
(a) "Taiwan has one of the most highly educated populations in the world when defined by the percentage of adults with a college degree. For Taiwan, that figure is 39 per cent, compared with an average of 30 per cent among members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development."

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/cb17-51.html

(b) "the country [Taiwan] as a whole has about 130 higher education institutions if you include those in the state and private sectors. Add junior colleges and institutes of science and technology (some of which include the word 'university' in their titles) and the number jumps to more than 150. * * * 'In the early 1990s, partially as a result of democratisation * * * Many new universities came on the scene as a result of upgrading existing polytechnic, normal and professional colleges."
(i) junior colleges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_college
(section 1.5 United States: "over the last few decades,[when?] many public junior colleges, which typically aim to serve a local community, have replaced 'junior' with 'community' in their names. Thus, most self-identified junior colleges in the United States today are private institutions, although only a small percentage of all two-year institutions are private")

A graduate from junior college receives an associate degree.
(ii) polytechnic (adj and noun; etymology)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polytechnic

(c) "why would Chinese students want to make the journey across the Formosa Strait?  '[Taiwan's status as] the last outpost of the old Republic of China is attractive to students from the mainland curious to make comparisons with their lives back home,' says Dafydd Fell, an expert on Taiwanese politics and director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at Soas.

Fell (PhD from the same university; race: white) is a Reader at Department of Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

(d) "it was possible to hear a pin drop when the results of the THE Asia-Pacific University Rankings were handed out to presidents and provosts from across the region at a reception hosted by Asia University 亞洲大學 [2001- ; private] in Taichung earlier this year."
(i) Times Higher Education World University Rankings (annually; by Times Higher Education (THE) magazine; since 2010)
(ii) Times Higher Education (THE; a weekly; founded in 1971 by Times of London as a supplement to its newspaper; sold to also London-based TES Global in 2008 which has published it as a magazine)  en.wikipedia.org