Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/29
By: Phoenix Hsu and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, July 29 (CNA) The quality of higher education in Taiwan is increasingly causing

Huang Kun-huei (黃昆輝, second left)

concern, with over 80 percent of people believing the high unemployment rate among new college graduates is serious, according to a survey released Sunday by Professor Huang Kun-huei Education Foundation (黃昆輝教授基金會).

The survey identifies several problems in the higher education system that worry respondents, including a lack of international competitiveness among students (78.3 percent), the detachment of universities from the needs of industry (77.7 percent) and the poor quality of universities (76.5 percent).

The poll also found that 58.8 percent of respondents were worried about social stratification caused by education and 78.3 thought the government should provide financial subsidies to economically disadvantaged students.    [FULL  STORY]