PROJECT:China’s Fujian Provincial Government Education Department plans to recruit 1,000 top Taiwanese academics for its universities by 2020, a ‘Xiamen News’ report said
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 22, 2017
By: Lin Hsiao-yun / Staff reporter, with CNA
The nation’s top academics are leaving the nation due to low wages and a worsening
National Taiwan University (NTU) acting president Kuo Tei-wei, second right, listens to a colleague at a meeting on the NTU campus in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
research environment, National Taiwan University (NTU) interim president Kuo Tei-wei (郭大維) said yesterday, warning against a possible collapse of the nation’s higher education system.
China’s Fujian Provincial Government Education Department has announced a plan to recruit 1,000 top Taiwanese academics to teach at its universities by 2020, a department report cited by the Chinese-language Xiamen News said on Friday.
The department intends to promote bilateral collaboration between Taiwan and China’s Fujian Province in certain disciplines and, long-term, to open universities, junior colleges and vocational schools in collaboration with Taiwanese academics, the report said. [FULL STORY]
