Skyrock Projects aims to inspire action and initiative in technology and the arts. Emerging technologies are already reshaping the world, and the pace of change is increasing, with everything from Artificial Intelligence, workplace automation, financial technology, autonomous vehicles, and advanced material science impacting home and work. Today’s learners will need to be educated to take…
A total of 80 English Teaching Assistants will serve in schools in six locations around Taiwan this year. This month 80 young college graduates from American universities arrive in Taiwan to take up positions for the coming academic year as English Teaching Assistants (ETAs) in public schools. The initiative, sponsored by the Fulbright Program, began…
Schools may need to merge, join an alliance, or shift to a different line of business. For the past three decades, government policy and a cultural stress on the importance of education have driven a boom in the number of universities in Taiwan, even as fertility rates have decreased. Despite warnings for years that a…
Innovative approaches to learning are creating new business opportunities. When they were first introduced, Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), instructional materials offered by universities over the Internet for free or for a [usually] low price, were simply low-tech and unidirectional videos of professors giving lectures. Today, with the help of MOOC startups such as U.S….
Increasing numbers of Taiwanese students are going abroad for higher education, but they are no longer necessarily headed for U.S. universities, as was once usually the case. Over the past five years, according to Ministry of Education (MOE) data, the number of Taiwanese studying abroad has increased by about 9.3% to reach 54,106. Although the…
Two amendments are said to be contrary to Taiwan’s WTO obligations. AmCham Taipei’s Retail Committee has raised questions as to whether two amendments to Article 23 of the School Health Act (SHA), dealing with the provision of lunches to public school students, contravene Taiwan’s obligations to international trade agreements to which it is a party….
A long-stalled cooperative educational program may have a new lease on life. For years, AmCham Taipei has emphasized the potential value for Taiwan of allowing – in fact, encouraging – prestigious foreign universities and other educational institutions to set up degree and/or non-degree programs in this country as they have done elsewhere across the region…
Some families choose one of the excellent international schools, while others prefer local public education for the Chinese-language benefits. As Taiwan has developed, it has attracted a number of long-term foreign residents. For those who are married and raising families here, the question arises: what kind of education do they wish to provide for their…
Taipei American School (TAS) no longer has a library. Instead of rows of bookcases and little cubicles for reading, the area that was formerly the library is now the Information Commons, an open space filled with tables and easy chairs. Some books for general reading are left in a few scattered bookshelves, but instead of…
Taiwan is making an effort to attract more international students – and hopes that growing numbers of them will stay on to join the workforce after graduation. Despite being only a Tier II team, the soccer squad at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) regularly defeats some of Taiwan’s top-division university teams. But…
