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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.

Representatives of Beijing Normal, National Taiwan Normal Us meet in Taipei

Academic ties could play a major part in improving cross-strait relations; that's the message taken from last Friday's visit of Beijing Normal University official Liu Chuansheng (劉川生) to NTNU.

Thai professor, NTNU English dept discuss future of English education

Preparing students for the real world should be a focus of English-language studies, said NTNU English department chair Liang Sun-chieh (梁孫傑) last Thursday as he met with a visiting delegation from Thailand.