The Ministry of Education plans steps to elbow out some colleges

The Ministry of Education (MOE) plans to work out a set of measures to speed up the process of forcing colleges and universities out of the market if they cannot recruit enough incoming first-year students.
Although nearly all senior high school graduates in Taiwan were given admission this year, 16,705 chose not to attend a college or university when the new academic year begins in September. MOE officials said the public higher learning institutions that are funded by the government and charge lower tuitions had planned to recruit 43,346 students.……..The mushrooming number of colleges and universities now guarantees admission to all senior high school graduates who are interested in advanced learning, and whose parents are willing to pay the tuition.……….. more people are questioning the quality of Taiwan's higher learning institutions.…….. the number of high school students or graduates who want to spend extra time on studying in order to gain admission to college or university has dropped as much as 40 percent or more this summer.[View Full Article]