Taiwan had been ruled by Japan for fifty-one years before the end of World War II. The
island's higher education was established during that period, mainly to support Japan's …

Traditional and nontraditional education in Taiwan are considered, based on interviews with
educators and scholars in Taiwan, observations, and research materials. To provide a …

The transition from an elitisthigher education system to mass education hascreated a
number of concerns in this sector. Among these are fears for the quality of theprovision; the …

Along with the global trend of higher education expansion, the establishment of market
economies has had an impact on Asian HEIs, especially in China, Japan, Korea, and …

Reviewing the recent development of international higher education, one can find a general
tendency: Americanization. Whether it is in Europe or in Asia, US higher education has been …

The higher education systems of mainland China and Taiwan, dominated by single ruling
parties for more than 4 decades, are decentralizing concurrently with larger societal …

This article discusses how political transition affected higher education in Taiwan between
1987 and 1996. The patterns of political transition were reflected in changes in higher …

This chapter discusses the migration from the mainland in the early post-war period; this
supplied Taiwan with most of its highly educated people and formed a favorable initial …

Taiwan's education system had three features which were instrumental to its spectacular
economic success. First, it had an infrastructure already built up by 1950 for basic education …

In recent years, Taiwan has demonstrated strong policy change to counteract the potential
threats brought upon by globalisation such as the opening of the higher education market to …