What Is Driving Taiwan Government for Policy Change in Higher Education after the Year of 2016 -- In Search of Egalitarianism or Pursuit of Academic Excellence?

Autor/inn/en	Hou, Angela Yung Chi; Hill, Christopher; Hu, Zoe; Lin, Lily
Titel	What Is Driving Taiwan Government for Policy Change in Higher Education after the Year of 2016 -- In Search of Egalitarianism or Pursuit of Academic Excellence?
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 47 (2022) 2, S.338-351 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hou, Angela Yung Chi)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2020.1744126
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Public Policy; Policy Formation; Educational Change; COVID-19; Pandemics; Higher Education; Equal Education; Educational Quality; Federal Government; Accreditation (Institutions); Competition; Global Approach; Institutional Autonomy; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Öffentliche Ordnung; Politische Betätigung; Bildungsreform; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Bundesregierung; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Wettkampf; Globales Denken; Institutionelle Autonomie
Abstract	Due to global influence and local demand, Taiwan's higher education system has experienced great changes in policy agenda and system reform over the past few decades. After President Tsai took the presidential office in 2016, the Ministry of Education (MOE) shifted its focus towards universities' autonomy and social responsibility, which encouraged institutions to strengthen their partnerships and collaborations with other ASEAN countries. Based on this new ideological and political paradigm shift, three key national higher education projects, including the new cycle of self-accreditation policy, higher education sprout project, and new southbound policy, were implemented. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to present the current development of these three MOE initiatives since 2016, and analyze the paradigm shift of Taiwan higher education policymaking in terms of egalitarianism. Four major findings are addressed as follows. First, policy and politics mattered in the process of educational policy shift under a doctrine of egalitarianism; second, national accreditation continued to be used by university leaders for institutional effectiveness; third, global competitiveness in Taiwan higher education is declining gradually; fourth, the loss of Chinese students was not offset by the new Southbound program. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01