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Youth Confucianism forum to kick off in July

Registration has opened for the 2013 East Asian Youth Confucianism Forum and Camp, set to run from July 29 to August 2. The event is being jointly hosted by the College of International Studies and Education for Overseas Chinese and the Research Center for East Asian Cultures and Sinology.

NTNU, University of Philippines researches cooperate on ethnomusicology

　Students and teachers from NTNU's College of Music have worked with their counterparts at the University of the Philippines to follow in the footsteps of the late José Maceda, an acclaimed ethnomusicologist who did field work in the Cordillera area of the Philippines.

UN expert van Ypersele visits NTNU for climate change talk

　“We need to make changes to offset the effects of climate change,” Vice-chairman Jean-Pascal van Ypersele of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN organization, told an attentive audience at NTNU on Tuesday.

NTNU makes Asia's top 100 university list

National Taiwan Normal University ranks number 68 among Asian universities this year, making it one of a total 17 Taiwanese universities in the Asia's top 100, according to Times Higher Education (THE). THE released its first-ever Asia University Rankings on Wednesday.

Long-distance e-learning closes the gap for students of Chinese

Afraid of flying? NTNU's Mandarin Training Center (MTC) has some great news for anyone looking for personalized Chinese classes but who is unable to make it all the way to Taiwan. Thanks to the Internet, all you need is a computer, phone, or tablet to start one-on-one classes with a real live teacher.