Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/07
By: Chu Tse-wei and William Yen
Taipei, Nov. 7 (CNA) An international survey Tuesday ranked the civic knowledge of
Taiwanese eighth-grade students second highest out of 24 participating countries, according to the local organizer of the survey.
The countries and areas that participated in the survey were Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Russia, Germany, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Chile, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Peru, Mexico, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea.
The local organizer Liu Mei-hui (劉美慧) from National Taiwan Normal University said 4,454 eighth graders from 150 schools in Taiwan took part in the survey which had a total of 94,000 participants worldwide. [FULL STORY]