Country already seeing mergers of public universities

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/10/19
By: Huang Tzu-ti, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s educational authorities expressed support on Monday (Oct. 19) for the country’s public and private universities to merge amid population decline woes.

Around half of Taiwan’s 66 private technological and vocational colleges are feared will be shuttered by 2028 with the expected 40 percent drop in the number of pupils from high schools, warned Shyu So-de (徐守德), president of the Association of Private Universities and Colleges of Technology.

At a legislative interpellation session, Education Minister Pan Wen-chung (潘文忠) noted that the Ministry of Education (MOE) is working on institutional solutions to overcome hurdles on potential merger plans between public and private universities. Preliminary results of a study will be published in November, drawing lessons from foreign countries like Japan, wrote Liberty Times.
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