When politics, DIPS into higher ed, that, is what’s happened here, in this country, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
In 1990, Taiwan had done away with the general college entrance exams, and added more universities and colleges, on the surface, it’s the applications of giving everyone an opportunity to get into universities and colleges………This reform of education pushed forth by non-experts had, created a number of degrees in excess, and, the popular opinions were only satisfied, temporarily. But, nobody ever analyzed that is this policy really, beneficial, to the general mass public, including the college students?
The economy grew at a slower pace after the education reforms, and, the GDP of this country was the lowest, of the four countries of Asia, and, China took the lead, and went from the 30:1 ratio from back then to just 3:1 ratio. But, what about the college students?
In my own curiosities, I’d, analyzed the wages earned from the college graduates in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, and U.S. In comparing, it’d, helped the better understanding of how much college students weighed in the eyes of the working class, and, by this way of comparison, I was able to, not worry about how the results would be altered, due to the differences of spending in the various nations.
And, it’d, shocked me. The starting wages of the Taiwanese college graduates, are not only the lowest of the four top nations in Asia, comparing the earnings on average per person, it’s also, the lowest among the top four nations in Asia, plus Japan, America, and China. Between 1996 to 2017, the rate dropped steadily in Taiwan, and now, we’re only, half of South Korea!
Democracy can increase the living standards of the people, but, that wasn’t happening in Taiwan. The younger generations, the original hopes of the society, but, the college students now all, lost hope. There’s, an influx in the number of universities and colleges, education was, tainted by politics. The president of N.T.U. was still, not found, and, we’d, mixed up politics and education now. And, there’s an increase in number of high school grads who’d applied to universities in China, Hong Kong, and all of this, I’d taken in, as a sort, of a peaceful revolution. And, there’s still, the cause and effects of all of this, if only, you look, closely.
And so, this just showed, how the current politics here, is SCREWING over the education here, because there’s the oh, I want a man from my political party to be the president of whatever university, so I can, exert more control of the students’ belief systems, and that, is why, the quality of students are, lowered, compared to from before, and now, a ton of college students are following the EXODUS, out of here, and Taiwan has NOBODY to blame, but itself!
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