2009年10月13日 星期二

Ministry of Education will launch second Five-year NT$50 Billion Program to subsidize top single-field research

Minister of Education Wu Ching-chi said Tuesday that the country's second five-year NT$50 billion program to upgrade the nation's universities into top academic research centers, will focus on subsidizing top-notch, single-field academic research.

 

Minister Wu said details of the program were being discussed by a group of professors and experts led by Wong Chi-Huey, President of Academia Sinica, the most preeminent academic institution in Taiwan.

 

Wu said the program will mostly focus on subsidizing single-field research, such as the cognitive neuroscience research and the photonics research. Each year, the program will provide NT$ 10 billion in subsidies, Wu added.

Wu said the first five-year NT$50 billion program to boost academic institutions' quality will expire at the end of 2010. The program has already met its targets, given the fact that National Taiwan University (NTU) ranked among the world's top 100 universities for the first time this year.

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2009年10月8日 星期四

NTU makes world's top 100 university list

    Taiwan's top school, National Taiwan University (NTU), has made the top 100 list of the Times Higher Education--QS World University Rankings for 2009, with a ranking of 95.

    It is the first time that NTU has been listed in QS' top 100 university rankings since QS Intelligence Unit began to compile the list six years ago. NTU ranked 124 in 2008.

    The overall QS rankings were compiled based on six distinct indicators -- academic peer review, employer review, faculty student ratio, citations per faculty, international faculty and international students.

    A total of 9,386 academics and 3,281 employers responded to the 2009 survey, an increase of 40 percent in both groups from a year ago, QS researchers said. They attributed NTU's rise in the prestigious rankings to the fact that its scores in most of the indicators improved this year.

    Nevertheless, the QS researchers suggested, if NTU and other leading universities in Taiwan intend to stand higher in the rankings or enter the top 100 list, they should make improvements in areas like international faculty and international students.

    NTU and other Taiwan universities could also do better in the areas of faculty student ratio and citations, the researchers said.

 

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