Registration

Welcome address:

• Mu-Lin Lu, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Education
• Michael Reilly, Director of the British Trade and Cultural Office (BTCO)

Host: Dr Si-chen Lee, President of Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan (FICHET) and President of National Taiwan University

From Mass Higher Education to Excellent Research University in Taiwan: Kissing Cousins or Sibling Rivalries?
Speaker: Dr. Ovid J. L. Tzeng, Distinguished Fellow Researcher, Academia Sinica and Chancellor of the University System of Taiwan
Chair: Dr Si-chen Lee, President of Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan (FICHET) and President of National Taiwan University

Break

Common interests: quality assurance of UK – Taiwan HE cooperation
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Jackson, Director of Reviews, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) Chair: Christine Skinner, Director of British Council Taipei

Establishing a successful international student exchange programme
Speaker: Prof John Dearlove, University of Sussex

Aim for Excellence: The experience of international collaboration at Yang-Ming University
Speaker: Prof Yi-Ming Arthur Chen, National Yang-Ming University

Academic and Professional excellence – Postgraduate study at Durham University
Speaker: Dr Tony Harries, Durham University

Cooperation between NTU and SOAS-Joint Projects in Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Speakers:

• Prof Chia-lin Mei, National Taiwan University
• Bernhard Fuehrer, SOAS, University of London

Lunch

Translating real-world practice into the classroom: a case study of Taiwan –UK teaching collaboration
Speakers:

• Dr Joanna Drugan, Leeds University
• Peter Smith, Fu Jen University
• Hellen Hu, Soochow University

International collaborations with an experimental industry-academy cooperation programme
Speaker: Prof Yung-Hui Lee, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Toward international interdisciplinary research networks
Speaker: Prof Shu-Heng Chen, National Chengchi University

Learning Chinese in Taiwan: NTNU's Experiences
Speaker: Prof Kunliang Chuang, National Taiwan Normal University
Open up a Narrow Door: NCKU’s Strategies of Recruiting International Students
Speaker: Prof P. Shirley Li, National Cheng Kung University

Panel discussion: HE collaboration models
Panellists:

• Dr Gerry Cleary, Queen’s University Belfast (chair)
• Neil Christie, University of Stirling
• Dr Wei-Hua Andrew Wang, Tunghai University
• Dr Tzu-Yuan CHAO, Leader University

International Cooperation between Fooyin and QUB
Speakers:

• Prof Jane Lee Hsieh, Fooyin University
• Prof Jean Orr CBE, Queen’s University Belfast

Creative practice: School of Architecture and the Visual Arts, UEL
Speakers:

• Prof Peter Cobb, University of East London
• Prof Yi Chen Hung, Tainan National University of the Arts

Continuity Study between Education Systems of Taiwan and UK
Speaker: D.C. Wang, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology Challenges of Academic Exchange and Recruiting International Students
Speaker: Prof Chi-cheng Cheng, National Sun Yat-sen University

Panel discussion: International student provision
Panellists:

• Dr Joanna Drugan, Leeds University
• Prof John Dearlove, University of Sussex
• Prof Kunliang Chuang, National Taiwan Normal University
• Dr Yu-Chen Chiang, I-Shou University

Break

Panellists:

• Dr Si-chen Lee, President of Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan (FICHET) and President of National Taiwan University (co-chair)
• Prof Keith Hoggart, Vice-Principal (Arts & Sciences) and Professor of Geography King's College London (co-chair)
• Dr Stephen Jackson, Director of Reviews, QAA
• Ms Christine Skinner, Director, British Council Taipei
• Prof Chia-Pei Chou, CEO of Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan (FICHET)

Conference ends