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Direct linkChen, Hsin-Jen – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
This paper aims to investigate the micropolitical actions and strategies employed by the principal in the researched elementary school located in Northern Taiwan. Firstly, the author argues that the mechanism of the principal selection in Taiwan is the product of educational reform affected by policy borrowing. Secondly, drawing on ethnographic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Policy Analysis, Politics of Education, Elementary Education
Download full textChen, Jui-Kuei; Chen, I-Shuo – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this study is selecting type of university that can create its competitive advantages in a changing world. The study analyzes 25 related experiential professors. The VIKOR-based methodology is used to tackle the ranking of four types of universities. The study found that the rank of the university types is: Research-Intensive,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Indicators, Educational Research, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewedZeng, Kangmin – Comparative Education Review, 1996
The socioeconomic importance and fierce competition related to high school and university entrance examinations in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea lead students and their parents to seek spiritual support through prayer and religious rituals. Japanese students leave donations and written prayers and promises to the gods at Shinto shrines…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Competitive Selection, Foreign Countries, Religion
Peer reviewedArjona-Tseng, Etilvia – Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 1993
Details the setting up of a battery of psychometric tests for selecting student interpreters for the Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpreting in Taiwan. Argues that the rigid screening (which leads to a nearly 100 percent pass rate) compares favorably with the high drop-out rate in traditional schools of interpreting. (NKA)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Competitive Selection, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study
Peer reviewedZeng, Kangmin; Le Tendre, Gerald – Comparative Education Review, 1998
Uses recent data and new theoretical perspectives to reexamine hypothesized links between academic competition and adolescent suicide in East Asia, particularly Japan. Finds no direct connection, discusses possible indirect effects on individual motives, and suggests a more complicated model. Analyzes how cultural and historical factors may…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Competition, Competitive Selection
Kuo, Wei-fan – 1983
The Joint Entrance Examination of Universities and Colleges (JEE), the college entrance examination in the Republic of China, is discussed. It is suggested that the competitive selective process for college and university admission has survived for many centuries because it has served certain social functions. The system has been perceived and has…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Bound Students
