New York Time: March 16, 2009 "State colleges Also Face Cuts in Ambitions" to see Taiwanese education

About four or five years, Time magazine reported the economic hardship of Californian government in USA. That is a warning about that Californian government would sacrifice the educational budgets. Most of Asian students would choose to study in California and California has many Asian-American residents. It is said that California has nice weather for Asian students to get used to the environment soon. Now, not only California has economic problems, but also many states in America have deficits. This is not a latest news. The USA has giant deficits, which is not a news. Now, the problems come one after another after financial crisis.

I think any steps taken by the school and government authority should not do any harm to education and make great cuts. In the past, the USA relied on their research achievement to win the most of resources and IPR. But now, it seems to have some changes. As for Taiwan, Taiwanese edcuation system is still needed to improve but it is still not easy. One of the way that the government has to do is that we can not loose the equality of opportunity for each student, especially from the poor, to study. As for the improvement of research, Taiwan still has great space to grow. I do not hold optimistic attitude toward such improvemtns. In any aspects, the social value and judements seem to have been deciding anything. This is good or bad for Taiwanese education. We all know after these years.