Concept change PhD student enrollment crisis in Taiwan universities, over a hundred doctoral classes can not recruit students

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BBS unknown space station (Fri Jan 19 00:25:34 2018, the United States East)

According to Taiwan's "China Time Electronics News" reported that Taiwan authorities approved the education department next year, a total of 4493 PhD students enrollment places, Of which 107 doctoral students enrollment is 0 or 1 people. The education department said that the Ph.D. classes could withdraw if they could not hold on. However, university professors said fewer and fewer doctoral students face the dilemma of "there will be no soldiers". To avoid "wandering Ph.D. "phenomenon deteriorated, the Taiwan authorities education sector cut the enrollment of Ph.D. in universities in the past three years, approved only 2018 academic year 4493 recruits, 251 fewer than 4242 students in the academic year of 2017, a decrease of 5.59%. Taiwan 59 general university 2017 school There are about 900 PhD classes in a year, but 34 of them have 0 enrolled students, 73 have recruited 1 Ph. Pro-survival crisis.

FY 2017 Enrollment: 0 PhD students, including Taiwan Uni-President System (National Tsing Hua University, National Chiao Tung University, Yangming University, etc.) School composition) PhD doctoral programs, North Medical Institute of nano-engineering doctoral and Ph.D. Department of Microbiology, Soochow University Classes and so on. There are 5 Ph.D. classes such as National Cheng Kung University and 10 such as the Department of Central Finance and Finance Ph.D. classes, Sun Yat-sen Communication Engineering and other 3 doctoral programs, CKS Prospective Manufacturing Systems PhD 8 Ph.D. Can not recruit students who are suffering from the doctoral class, is it right? Taiwan's education department and university professors Different views. Taiwan Education Department, "Higher Education Department," Li Yan-yi to remove these doctoral classes did not hesitate to answer "is "She said that some key industries (such as semiconductors), master's degree than the doctoral students, university-related departments The focus on multi-strokes Master, Dr. less surgery. However, Lin Yung-rong, director of NTU's Department of Agronomy, said they have more than 20 old students Teachers, Ministry of Education approved 107 academic year doctoral program enrollment of only 4 people, some research will face "there will be no soldiers" predicament. There is no doctoral student available at the moment when the department is carrying out the research project and is very dependent on the master's degree, Industry, in-depth, long-term or difficult studies are not easy to carry out.

Dai Nianhua, dean of National Tsing Hua University, said cutting some of his doctoral candidates to 0 or 1 would allow them to "quickly" Breathe ", National Tsing Hua University proposed to the Department of Education to recruit doctoral students, and then according to candidates willing to distribute to the PhD Class, raise the will to apply. Dai Nianhua said that according to the job market, the education sector needs to adjust the number of doctoral students enrolled, the starting point That's right, but if the last evolvement is that students are not encouraged to do doctoral studies, the teacher's research can not be done. The existing policy It is necessary to reconsider. As the society in Taiwan becomes increasingly childless, enrollment difficulties in higher education have become a recognized fact. according to" The Straits Herald reported that in 1997, the number of newborns in Taiwan was 320,000, which was reduced to 270,000 in 1998 and 2,000 in 2000 It is down to 160,000 people. However, starting from 1994, Taiwan has entered a "crazy long-term" college. In 1994, there were only 23 large units in Taiwan Colleges and universities, but in response to the so-called "education reform", Taiwan authorities encouraged private learning so that a large number of higher vocational and technical School upgraded to college. In 1997, Lee Teng-hui implemented the policy of "increasing enrollment of high schools and universities", and even more the code of Chen Shui-bian's era As "a county a university", Taiwan thus entered the "golden age" of higher education, reached the peak of the whole university More than 160 unprecedented density.

In addition to the "unbalanced birth rate" and the "crazy growth" in Taiwan universities, the "China Times" 2015 article Zhang also quoted Dai Weifen, a professor of social sciences at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan, as saying that his doctoral employment pipeline has become increasingly unobstructed, The reason for low student readiness. Taiwan Jiaotong University, Institute of Enrollment contractor mentioned, the school as a whole enrollment The situation is not very good, even the master class students are reluctant to continue their studies, "our school is near the Hsinchu Science Park, Everyone wants to graduate to work early. "The Institute of Statistics at Tsinghua University in Taiwan also mentioned that master's students already have a good way out, So compared to the popular master's class, the doctoral class but no one heard, once the 2014 annual academic year completely unmanned Name. "Chen Shu-han, director of Taiwan's Higher Education Industry Union office, said the education department did not plan for doctoral students In the long run, "if a doctor's degree can not find a job, there is absolutely no need for a university to have a teaching job, but a Taiwan education department Let teachers and students than worse. "

Chen Zhengui, president of Taiwan Practice University, in an interview with the Straits Herald pointed out: Under the trend of the younger son of Taiwan, Student sources in Taiwan showed a slide down. Therefore, to continue to survive in colleges and universities, we must expand the enrollment channels, especially To increase the mainland and other overseas enrollment.