EXCHANGES: The ministry aims to increase the number of students from ASEAN and India from 41,000 to 50,000, and send 5,000 Taiwanese students abroad next year
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 30, 2018
By: Rachel Lin and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Ministry of Education (MOE) has budgeted NT$1.58 billion (US$50.97 million) for
Deputy Minister of Education Yao Leeh-ter speaks at a meeting of the Education and Culture Committee at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on Monday last week.
personnel training next year as part of its response to the government’s New Southbound Policy.
It also plans to spend NT$450 million on student recruitment and subsidies to increase the number of students from ASEAN and India, and to help Taiwanese students enter internships and research programs there.
Its long-term plans include subsidizing up to 10,000 students studying abroad by 2021 to increase the international competitiveness of Taiwanese students, the ministry said.
The number of foreign students at the nation’s higher education institutions hit a record 117,970 last year, ministry data showed. [FULL STORY]