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Voices of Leaders：What are the university's key latest achieve-ments? 

With a 120-years history, National Taichung University of Education (NTCU) has an excellent tradition of teacher education, especially at the primary school level. In terms of provision of teacher education, NTCU is in a leading position in Taiwan. All three teacher education programs which are made of primary school teacher, pre-school teacher, and special education teacher are awarded by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China, with the status of an excellent teacher education university. The key latest achievements of NTCU are as follows:

(1)      Top 3 of the National Universities in terms of undergraduate student registration ratio in the 2017 school year.

(2)      All our teacher education programs for primary school, kindergarten education, and special education have been listed in the best universities of teacher education in Taiwan in 2018 and 2019.

(3)      In the leading position in National Teacher Licensure Examinations (more than 90 % of pass ratio in 2019).

(4)      We are one of the winners of Golden File Award Management by the government in Taiwan.

(5)      We have more than 250 partner universities outside Taiwan.

(6)      Having a faculty member from our College of Education awarded by Ministry of Science and Technology as outstanding research fellowship in 2018.

(7)      Having received a competitive grant of about US$1,494,986 from Ministry of Education in Taiwan in 2018.

(8)      We are in the 7th place in terms of income generated from cooperation between university and industry as US$24,725 per faculty member among all the public universities and colleges in Taiwan in the 2016 school year.

(9)      Our graduates with more high employment ratios than the counterparts of the so-called Top Universities in Taiwan according to the data released by the Ministry of Education in 2018. 

VoL：What are the strategic plans for the upcoming year? 

We aim to reach the target of 3 % annual growth rate of expenditure and research performance.

We also wish to maintain the leading position of teacher education in terms of our excellent status as a teacher education university and the national teacher licensure pass ratios. 

VoL：Regarding the university's internationalization, what are the plans to further strengthen partnerships and collaborations with other universities in Asia and the world? 

NTCU has more than 250 partner universities overseas. In terms of the internationalization of NTCU, the plans both abroad and at home have four aspects:

(1)     We attend overseas education exhibitions and international conferences to promote the unique feature of our Teacher Education Programs and to ally with overseas universities proactively. We provide diversify enrollments for short-term exchange students to enrich their learning experiences as well as sending our students to sister schools for dual-degree programs.

(2)     We work with our sister schools and invite their faculties and students to participate in winter and summer camps to promote our outstanding programs and encourage students’ registration. In 2018, NTCU invited one teacher and 20 students from Seoul National University of Education in South Korea, six students from Private University of Education, Diocese Linz in Austria, five students from Newton College in the Czech Republic, three students from University of Burgundy in France and five students from Leeds Trinity University in England to join our winter camp.

(3)     Our International Volunteer Association trains the students from the Teacher and Non-Teacher Educational Programs to provide professional services, such as Chinese courses or building classrooms, to help the children in developing countries, such as Northern Thailand and other South-East Asian areas.

(4)     Freshman English Project-freshman English in a multicultural Context: The project is made up of Curriculum, teacher, student, and teaching assistant.  The frame is composed by cultural awareness, multicultural awareness, cross-cultural competence, citizenship and responsibility. The main goals are to foster multicultural competency among students and to prepare students as English users with communicative ability.  

VoL：Given Taiwan's objective to become a global R&D and innovation center, what is the university's commitment to innovation? 

According to Scimago Journal & Country Rank (2019), in terms of the total numbers of documents/papers produced in all subject areas, all subject categories during the period of 1996 to 2018, Taiwan is 17th  in the world. Taiwan is 12th if we look at country rankings in education and has an even a stronger position , 4 th, in E-learning. As stated previously NTCU has an excellent traditional for teacher education and is developing a new strength in teaching and research in E-learning, so this university will continue to innovate its teacher education, E-learning and educational research in order to make contributions to enhance Taiwan’s strong position in the country’s education rankings.

VoL：How important is R&D and having a knowledge-based economy to assist Taiwan in remaining competitive in the global market? 

According to the global manufacturing scorecard (2018), Taiwan is 10th on the list of the leading countries in manufacturing output. Taiwan should continue to invest in R&D and talent development especially in Taiwan’s competitive niche of manufacturing and its possible application in the age of artificial intelligence so that Taiwan has a key role to play.

VoL：What is the university's stance on strengthening ties between academia and industries? 

It is essential for the university to collaborate with industry closely so that research findings and new knowledge produced by the university academia can be transferred to industries for upgrading their practices and then maintaining their competitive advantages. There is a great possibility for the university academia to benefit from this close collaboration due to the possibilities of deeper observation of industrial current practice and getting more applicable value of the research they are doing and what to do.
 

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