在全球化的脈絡之下，高等教育的發展，其實也是與其他全球化的定義、指標、與做法相似，包括經濟的發展、商業版圖的拓展、市場導向等等趨勢一般。進而產生出比較有競爭力的強勢力量與國家，及那些相對被迫因應全球化強勢力量的其他國家。全球化競爭之下的高等教育系統，多數都是依照西方開發國家的優勢而定論，除了是以英語為主的天下之外，包括可以更加提昇國際競爭力的科學研發、各學科研究論文的質與量，甚至產出諾貝爾級大師的數目，都是有利於歐美開發國家的定義。

台灣高等教育國際化的努力，近年普遍的將所謂的「國際化」當作一種治校理念，甚至將所謂的國際化成果與呈現，當作一個指標性的條件與準則。這中間就開始出現一些微妙的現象。例如，這種國際化的呈現，究竟還是在跟隨著西方的模式、標準與做法，移植到台灣來實施，形成台灣高教全球化的範本，而堪稱達到國際化標準。本文將探討在西方詮釋的高教國際化模式之下，台灣的高等教育系統是否只能遵循西方模式的步伐運行，而在此框架下落實高等教育國際化。

Under the context of globalization, the development of higher education is similar to that of international business in that the leading trends are economic development, expansion of business, and market orientation. These trends will result in countries with strong competitive advantages, and at the other hand, will also result in countries who must deal with facing these strong and dominant powers. Higher education systems under global competitiveness mostly follow the model and features that have been set according to the advantages of these Western developed countries. In addition to English being the predominant language, other indicators such as scientific research output, qualitative and quantitative academic indicators, or even the numbers of Nobel laureates produced, are all favorable to the international level of Western countries.

Taiwan’s higher education system has been endeavoring to “internationalize” its university and college campuses, and has been doing so as an important indicator of the standard of the institution. Yet are Taiwan’s higher education internationalization methodologies directly following the Western models, and if so, what are some limitations and conflicts that might arise. This paper aims to discuss whether these efforts by Taiwan’s higher education institutions will be feasible in trying to produce a so-called internationalized campus and compatible competitiveness.

Chapter 1: Introduction………………………………………………………….. 1
1.1 Motivation for Research…………………………………………………….. 1
1.2 Previous Literature………………………………………………………….. 2
1.3 Research Objective…………………………………………………………. 3
1.4 Research Area………………………………………………………………. 4

Chapter 2: Higher Education’s Global Competitiveness………………………… 5
2.1 The Trend of Global Higher Education…………………………………….. 5
2.2 Structural Advantage of Higher Education in western countries………….. 7
2.2.1 Advantages of Private Institutions………………………………………. 7
2.2.2 Fundraising and Donations……………………………………………… 8
2.3 Mechanism to Ensure Quality in Higher Education………………………. 10
2.3.1 Evaluation and accreditation in Higher Education………………………. 10
2.3.2 Ranking as Outcome of Evaluation……………………………………… 13
2.3.3 Quality Assurance and Accountability in Higher Education…………….. 14
2.3.4 Indices Used in Evaluations……………………………………………... 16
2.4 Globalization Efforts by Other Countries in Asia………………………… 16

Chapter 3: The Development of Taiwan’s Higher Education Internationalization 18
3.1 The Pressure Faced by Taiwan’s Universities to Internationalize…………. 18
3.1.1 The “5Year 50Billion Plan” Aims to Compete Globally………………… 18
3.1.2 Competition from Other Countries in East Asia………………………… 21
3.2 Existing Efforts at Internationalizing Taiwan’s Universities………………. 22
3.3 Policies and Measures to Enhance Higher Education Internationalization... 27
3.4 Setting Evaluation Standards in Higher Education……………………….. 29
3.4.1 National Higher Education Evaluation Projects………………………… 29
3.4.2 Evaluation Standards to Meet International Benchmarks………………. 30
3.4.3 Evaluation Results Used as Future Policy Reference…………………… 31
3.4.4 Relationship between Government and Institution in Evaluation………. 32
3.4.5 Seeking to Comply with International Evaluation Standards…………… 33
3.4.6 Establishing Taiwan’s Own Evaluation Accreditation Agency………….. 35
Chapter 4: Problems Impeding Taiwan’s Higher Education Internationalization.. 36
4.1 Structural limitations………………………………………………………. 36
4.1.1 Educational Philanthropy: Donation from Industry of Alumni…………. 37
4.2 Illusions with Creating International Environment……………………….. 40
4.2.1 Looking to the West……………………………………………………… 40
4.2.2 The Role of Yuan-Tseh Lee as Icon/Savior……………………………… 43
4.2.3 The Emphasis of Having International Names as Education Leaders…... 47
4.2.4 Loss of International Talent……………………………………………… 49
4.3 Impractical Mentality and Methods……………………………………….. 52
4.3.1 Opportunities to Attest Taiwan’s Internationalization…………………… 52
4.3.2 Reality in Demographics: “New Son of Taiwan”………………………... 61
4.3.3 Shrinking Birthrate………………………………………………………. 62
4.3.4 More Schools, Less Students, and Effects on Students………………….. 63

Chapter 5: Conclusion............................................................................................ 67
References.............................................................................................................. 71
Appendix A............................................................................................................ 73
Appendix B............................................................................................................ 74

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