Internationalisation begins to bear fruit

By Hiep Pham. It is time for Taiwan to support developing countries in training their young people, in the same way that Western countries such as America have done for Taiwan in the past, according to Teresa Ju, director of the Taiwan Education Center in Da Nang in central Vietnam.
Decades ago, the Taiwan government and Taiwanese families sent their young people to the West for a better quality education. Nowadays, the trend is being reversed – Taiwan has emerged as an attractive destination for international students.
“Before, we [Taiwanese] went abroad only to receive higher education, now we should go abroad to provide higher education,” Ju, a professor at Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, a private institution in Taiwan, told University World News.
Like many of Taiwan’s baby boomers, Ju went to the United States in the late 1960s and earned a PhD from Nova Southeastern University. After more than 20 years of working in US industry she returned to Taiwan to pursue an academic career, first at Foo-Yin University and later at Shu-Te University and Lunghwa University of Science and Technology. Read more...