A Taiwanese delegation has visited Maryland to expand academic cooperation, and held a recruiting seminar in Washington encouraging academics to teach in Taiwan, the Ministry of Education said in a news release yesterday.
The delegation, led by Deputy Minister of Education Lio Mon-chi (劉孟奇), on Friday met with Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Mohammed Choudhury and Deputy State Superintendent for Organizational Effectiveness Sylvia Lawson, the ministry said.
The delegation and the Maryland State Department of Education discussed the implementation of a five-year memorandum of understanding on education cooperation, which the ministry signed with the state in September 2019, it said.
Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Education via CNA
Under the US-Taiwan Education Initiative, the two sides can continue to deepen cooperation regarding the cultivation of talent in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as well as teacher and student exchanges, Lio said.
The initiative was launched in 2020 to expand collaboration in language education and to safeguard academic freedom, especially enhancing Taiwan’s role in providing Chinese-language instruction to Americans and around the world.
The ministry said that it was seeking the support and assistance of the department to promote cooperation between Taiwan and counties in Maryland.
Proposals include Taiwan selecting and sending more Mandarin teachers to the US, encouraging international exchanges between elementary and junior-high schools and establishing sister school relations and language exchange mechanisms, the ministry said.
The two sides had fruitful discussions and agreed to expand the scope and scale of cooperation in the field of education, it said.
The ministry also hosted a recruiting seminar in Washington on Saturday to introduce the Yushan Fellow Program, which was attended by nearly 150 people in person and virtually, the ministry said.
The program was launched in 2018 to help higher education institutions in Taiwan attract foreign academics by providing them with subsidies to offer internationally competitive salaries and benefits.
Of 545 applicants, 194 academics have been recruited to be Yushan fellows in the past five years.
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University president Lin Chi-hung (林奇宏), National Tsing Hua University president John Kao (高為元) and other presidents and vice presidents of universities in Taiwan presented the features and development priorities of their universities, the ministry said.
The Taipei Economic And Cultural Representative Office’s Science and Technology Division introduced the recruiting program and National Science and Technology Council research projects, it said.
The annual seminars are an effective way to recruit overseas academics to teach in Taiwan as they give them an understanding of the developments in Taiwan’s academic institutions and allow them to meet faculty from those institutions, it said.
An alleged US government plan to encourage Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) to form a joint venture with Intel to boost US chipmaking would place the Taiwanese foundry giant in a more disadvantageous position than proposed tariffs on imported chips, a semiconductor expert said yesterday. If TSMC forms a joint venture with its US rival, it faces the risk of technology outflow, said Liu Pei-chen (劉佩真), a researcher at the Taiwan Industry Economics Database of the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research. A report by international financial services firm Baird said that Asia semiconductor supply chain talks suggest that the US government would
Starlux Airlines on Tuesday announced it is to launch new direct flights from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to Ontario, California, on June 2. The carrier said it plans to deploy the new-generation Airbus A350 on the Taipei-Ontario route. The Airbus A350 features a total of 306 seats, including four in first class, 26 in business class, 36 in premium economy and 240 in economy. According to Starlux’s initial schedule, four flights would run between Taoyuan and Ontario per week: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Flights are to depart from Taoyuan at 8:05pm and arrive in California at 5:05pm (local time), while return flights
Nearly 800 Indian tourists are to arrive this week on an incentive tour organized by Indian company Asian Painted Ltd, making it the largest tour group from the South Asian nation to visit since the COVID-19 pandemic. The travelers are scheduled to arrive in six batches from Sunday to Feb. 25 for five-day tours, the Tourism Administration said yesterday. The tour would take the travelers, most of whom are visiting Taiwan for the first time, to several tourist sites in Taipei and Yilan County, including tea houses in Taipei’s Maokong (貓空), Dadaocheng (大稻埕) and Ximending (西門町) areas. They would also visit
HOSPITAL VISITS: Shin Kong Mitsukoshi pledged to give the families of the four people who died NT$11m each and provide support for staff working at the time The central government would assist local governments to enhance public safety, President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday as he visited people in hospital who were injured in an explosion at a department store in Taichung on Thursday. A suspected gas explosion occurred on the 12th floor of the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Zhonggang department store in Taichung at 11:33am on Thursday, killing four people and injuring 36. Of the 40 casualties, 39 were hospitalized, Ministry of Health and Welfare data showed. Three died after out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, the data showed. As of 6am yesterday, 25 of those injured had been discharged from hospital, leaving 11
RSS