Balancing access and quality in Taiwan

I became acquainted with a doctoral student at Pennsylvania State University from Taiwan while he was conducting his research. Our conversations were fascinating and revolved around Taiwan's need to rebalance its higher education offerings. The main issue as I understood it was that the governmentally-supported universities were quite strong but had limited seats while private-sector universities filled the gap with programs of lesser quality.

The perspective offered by a faculty member at National Cheng Kung University reinforced the problem as a originally heard it and provides an update on the challenges faced by countries attempting to broaden access while at the same time retaining institutions of high quality - not an easy problem to manage and one that could potential take years to rebalance.