Issues of Education

• General Introduction
  • Education in Taiwan (Updated 2007)
  • Teacher Education (Updated 2007)

• Year 2007
  • Global Classics Education Foundation to be established (January 6)

• Year 2006
  • Students go without food for 12 hours (June 7)
  • MOE seeks improvement of kindergarten school meals (May 26)
  • Gifted student exams are "illegal and ridiculous", MOE claims (May 19)
  • MOI concerned about illiteracy rate differentials (May 4)
  • Moral conduct grades violate students' rights: MOE (April 14)
  • Civics education exam debated (April 3)
  • Legislator slams sex education book (March 28)
  • Government announces funds to upgrade dilapidated schools (March 23)
  • Education levels continue to rise, DGBAS reports (March 17)
  • MOE to help students who cannot afford tuition (March 14)
  • Multiplication table back in textbooks (March 7)
  • "Martian language" banned in Taiwanese college entrance exam (March 6)
  • Most schools easing hairstyle rules (February 27)

• Year 2005
  • President's awards honor kids' perseverance amidst adversity (July 29)

• Year 2004
  • Taiwan's Teachers -- Transformations and Challenges (November)
  • Officials designate "health-promoting schools" (October 8)