ACCUSED: The Chinese are helping Kuan Chung-ming conceal many of his dealings due to the parlous state of cross-state relations, DPP Legislator Rosalia Wu said
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 26, 2018
By: Wu Po-hsuan, Chung Li-hua and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Ministry of Education will have a definitive solution by tomorrow regarding the
Minister of Education Wu Maw-kuen, left, in Taipei yesterday hosts his first ministry affairs meeting since taking over the post on Thursday last week. Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times
eligibility of National Taiwan University president-elect Kuan Chung-ming (管中閔) to assume the position, Minister of Education Wu Maw-kuen (吳茂昆) told the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday.
Kuan was on Jan. 5 elected the university’s president and was to assume the post on Feb. 1, but the ministry deferred ratification of his appointment, citing three points of contention: It was alleged that Kuan withheld information from the committee that he was an independent member of Taiwan Mobile’s board of directors; there were doubts about the fairness of the election committee’s procedures; and there were questions about the legality of a teaching position Kuan held at China’s Xiamen University while he was a government-contracted professor.
The controversy led to the resignation of former minister of education Pan Wen-chung (潘文忠), who cited politically motivated attacks on the ministry. [FULL STORY]
