‘POLITICALLY MOTIVATED’:The minister of education said he hopes the schemes surrounding Kuan Chung-ming’s election would come to an end with his resignation
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 15, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Minister of Education Pan Wen-chung (潘文忠) yesterday resigned over what he said were
Minister of Education Pan Wen-chung speaks at the legislature’s Education and Culture Committee in Taipei on Wednesday. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times
political manipulations and slander directed at the ministry amid a months-long controversy surrounding the legality of National Taiwan University (NTU) president-elect Kuan Chung-ming (管中閔) heading the nation’s leading university.
Pan yesterday told the media that he had tendered his resignation to Premier William Lai (賴清德).
Although he is not one to fear challenges at work, he decided to resign after much thought, to curb “politically motivated attacks and slander” leveled at the ministry over the case, Pan said.
The political manipulations had given ministry employees unnecessary stress and placed an uncalled-for burden on them, he said.
Kuan was on Jan. 5 elected NTU president, but his inauguration was postponed after he faced allegations of a conflict of interest in the election, plagiarism and illegally teaching in China as a government-contracted professor. [FULL STORY]
