2009年11月9日 星期一

University head urges continuation of university development project

National Taiwan University (NTU) President Lee Si-chen expressed hope Saturday that the government will continue promoting a project to develop some of the nation's universities into some of the best in the world, the first five-year stage of which will expire at the end of 2010.

Thanks to the project, NTU recently achieved 95th place in the Higher Education league table of the London Times newspaper, up from 124th in 2008 and marking the first time a Taiwanese school has ranked among the world's top 100 universities on such a list.

In response to Lee's call, Minister of Education Wu Ching-chi promised that the plan will indeed continue and noted that it has the firm support of President Ma Ying-jeou.

 

10/24/2009 CAN reports, click here to view the complete report.