Scott Sommers’ Taiwan Blog

I originally started this post to talk about the future of English teaching in Asia. Along the way, it became a post about the idea of ‘mainstream scholarship’ and how trends in the spread of scholarship as a market are effecting foreign teachers in Asia and Taiwan. Democratic integration into global society is a relatively [...]

The relationship between education policy and labour has historically been very strong in Taiwan. I have posted several times about this connection under the DPP. The DPP as continued earlier policies begun by the KMT that successive generations of Taiwanese need to demonstrate class mobility. While it was fine for grandparents to be farmers and [...]

This post is not meant to be comprehensive. I’m just trying to give outside readers a description of the different kinds of jobs available here and how they can find out more about them. Some of what I’m about to say I do not know from first hand experience and so I invite more knowledgeable [...]

Anaheim University has informed me they now have accreditation from the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). I last wrote about Anaheim back in 2005. It was an unaccredited, on-line university offering graduate degrees in business and TESOL. Despite this, it had affiliation with significant figures in the TESOL world such as David Nunan, Rod [...]

The Examination Yuan (???) is a unique aspect of government in the Republic of China. It’s legal status is on the same level as the Legislative Yuan (???) which acts as the legislature and the Executive Yuan (???) which acts as the cabinet. You can read the English description of their legal responsibilities here, but [...]

You may have noticed two additional links I’ve added to Blogs I Read.

The first of these is Higher Education Management Group. The blog is operated by Dr. Keith Hampson, PhD who is the director of E-learning at Ryerson University in Canada and is part of the LinkedIn group with the same name. The second link [...]