Creating a picture of the world class university in Taiwan: a Foucauldian analysis

Tang, Chia Wei

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“…In Taiwan, previously enhanced quality and introduced teaching excellence programs are based on the competitive mechanism [51]. Adverse effects have been reported, for example, the overemphasis on evaluation and the necessity for accountability in a short period of time [70].…”

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“…Two decades ago, the funding allocations in higher education in Taiwan were based on a competitive mechanism. The Ministry of Education in Taiwan has implemented two significant initiatives to enhance the quality of higher education, namely, the Aim for the Top University Plan (ATU) [50,51] and the Program for Encouraging Teaching Excellence for universities and technological universities [14]. One focuses on lifting research performance; the other focuses on achieving better teaching quality.…”

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“…Moreover, higher education funding is a zero-sum event at this stage. As researchers have argued, ATU creates a vicious cycle in which non-ATU institutes and their students become increasingly marginalized, especially in the case of private universities [51]. The specific funds given to the selected higher education institutes are based on competitive schemes.…”

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Analysis of the Influence of Fund Allocation and Sustainable Academic Efficiency Based on a Transformation of Public Goods in Higher Education

Chang,

Chang

2024

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The allocation of funding for higher education typically focuses on competition in neoliberal mechanisms. Surprisingly, much less attention has been paid to considering the effect of fund allocations for sustainable development through public goods purposes in neoliberal contexts. This study aims to examine specific funding schemes and determine the influential factors impacting funding for teaching, research, and public goods transformation. Taking Taiwan’s Higher Education Sprout Project (HESP) as an example, we explored the effect of policy initiatives on public goods transformation towards sustainable development. The data were collected from the Ministry of Education and Scopus databases. First, a regression analysis was conducted to determine which factors influence the effect of funding allocations in academic institutes. Second, we used a logistic regression to detect the effects of the system and the sector. Third, we used partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to explore the causal effects among the selected impact variables on expected outcomes. Finally, we used the bootstrap method to demonstrate the model’s robustness. Our study found that only diversity was shown in private technology groups receiving less HESP funding, while it did not widen the differences in the sector and system in the transformation process. Our findings suggest that funding allocations will not affect teaching and research based on sectors and systems. In contrast, this study demonstrates that transforming public goods through special funding can play a critical role in leading sustainable development in higher education.

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Analysis of the Influence of Fund Allocation and Sustainable Academic Efficiency Based on a Transformation of Public Goods in Higher Education

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Chang

2024

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“…Tang (2019a) To be a first-class department in a first-class university: Perceived effects of a world-class initiative in two departments in a Taiwanese university 7. Tang (2019b) Creating a picture of the world class university in Taiwan: a Foucauldian analysis 8. Chan and Chou (2020) Who influences higher education decision-making in Taiwan?…”

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“…Academics have come under tremendous pressure and have developed the SSCI syndrome. The failure to reach performance levels or submit oneself for evaluation has effectively led to faculty members' dismissal in various higher education (Tang, 2019b).…”

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Challenges of Collective Inertia and Scarcity to Technological and Vocational Education Universities

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Masrul

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The massification of higher education institutions in Taiwan, typically in universities of science and technology, creates competition for resources and currently threatens foreclosures in Taiwan’s higher education system. To answer this challenge amid global competition among universities, the Ministry of Education (MOE) implemented the World-Class Research University Project, creating the initiative for higher education institutions to quickly gain world-class status with the reasonable belief that strong global visibility would attract much needed international resources to supplement local ones. However, the race for global reputation has created highly stressful environments for faculty members to publish research papers in highly regarded international journals. In highlighting fundamental paradoxes of the system and the rationale behind them, this paper attempts to stimulate a much-needed reflection that might pave the way for rational and empirical efforts to transform higher education in Taiwan. This paper also reveals that the emphasis on speed-up achievement has overwhelmed the original academic missions of higher education and placed academics in a scarcity mindset with quantity drowning essence. The primary mechanism for keeping the current system is the collective inertia that limits academics from breaking out of the mould of habitual approaches. This paper discusses all sorts of findings, reported events, theoretical ideas, and inherent contradictions in relation to Taiwan universities in an attempt to frame the essential background on the problems in terms of scarcity mindset and inertial thinking. Finally, the paper provides some suggested solutions. The reflection in this paper may inspire faculty members in higher technological and vocational education programs to lead school administration and industry development with practical and updated knowledge. It is crucial to revitalising faculty members’ educational enthusiasm through building professional autonomy and self-efficacy.

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Taiwan’s Higher Education Policy: From Neoliberalism to Public Goods (Higher Education in Taiwan: Global, Political, and Social Challenges)

Chang

2020

Higher Education in Taiwan

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Creating a picture of the world class university in Taiwan: a Foucauldian analysis

Cited by 10 publications

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Analysis of the Influence of Fund Allocation and Sustainable Academic Efficiency Based on a Transformation of Public Goods in Higher Education

Analysis of the Influence of Fund Allocation and Sustainable Academic Efficiency Based on a Transformation of Public Goods in Higher Education

Challenges of Collective Inertia and Scarcity to Technological and Vocational Education Universities

Taiwan’s Higher Education Policy: From Neoliberalism to Public Goods (Higher Education in Taiwan: Global, Political, and Social Challenges)

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