
UKTI Taiwan
- Taiwan is strongly committed to education & skills sector development. In order to strengthen its international competitiveness needed by key emerging industries, talent cultivation is one of the key objectives of the Taiwanese authorities with the seven-year plan of Intelligent Taiwan.
- Under the Intelligent Taiwan Plan, a total budget of £16.5 billion will be allocated by 2016 covering ICT infrastructure for the development of smart cities, cultural & creative industries and also 13 major individual projects for manpower cultivation including English language learning, Information Technology (IT) education, digital learning, Continual Personal Development (CPD), vocational training and teaching quality improvement in higher education.
- Ministry of Education in Taiwan launched a four-year plan (2014-2017) with estimated total budgets of £157 million for the promotion of e-learning. The purpose is to strengthen e-learning environment in schools and encourage the “learner-centred” learning behaviour.
The plan includes:
3 IT infrastructure development plans
- Upgrade bandwidth of internet for education/academic environments,
- Increase the quality of WIFI environments in schools and
- Consolidate cloud resources for students, teachers, parents and general public
2 learning behaviours
- Building smart and healthier e-learning behaviour and
- Promoting and encouraging MOOCs projects. With the said projects as well as the launch of 4G licenses, the demand for quality tools and content are increasing.
