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NTNU Teams up with UBC for Academic Leadership Development Program

NTNU signed an MOU of Academic Leadership Development Programs in Higher Education with the century old University of British Columbia on March 22nd. The Dean of the Faculty of Education, Professor Blye Frank, signed the MOU with the Dean of College of Education. This program will first be carried out in NTNU this August. A series of motivating activities and courses which prepares and supports academic leaders in their roles will be included for the heads of University offices It’s hoped that other universities in Taiwan or even other Asian universities will be interested to held similar actives.

UC Berkeley Came to NTNU

NTNU is to cooperate with University of California, Berkeley for a top researcher project. Not only Professors from UC Berkeley came but also scholars from Princeton University and Stanford. The scholars visited NTNU on March 24th and had a whole hearted conversation with President Chang.

9 Subjects from NTNU are in the QS Rankings by Subject

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016 for 2016 were announced on March 22nd .A total number of 28 subjects of NTNU are being ranked and now it has entered the rankings in a total of 9 subjects. When compared with the result of last year, mechanical engineering, physics and astronomy are new subjects of this year. Moreover, the education subject has made it into the top 50 subjects in the world for consecutive 3 years, making NTNU the only university in Taiwan that is part of the top 50s in the category of Civil & Structural Engineering.

Pennsylvania State University Visits NTNU

On the 11th of March, there’s a pleasant discussion between the Pennsylvania State University and the Department of Civic and Leadership. The topic of the talk is What Does Civic Education Mean in a Globalized World?

First Online Program for Teaching Chinese as Second Language

With the economic growth in China, Chinese has become a dominate language in the world. NTNU announced on Marth 11st that for the first time, we are recruiting oversea students for the on-the-job training program for Teaching Chinese as Second Language. All courses are taken online, so they don’t have attend classes in Taiwan. It’s estimated that students can get their degrees in 2 years.