Scott Sommers’ Taiwan Blog

Last year, I posted about speaking at the European Association of Taiwan Studies conference in Prague. I didn’t make the conference this year, which was in Madrid, but last year’s conference was fantastic. Next year is scheduled for Germany.
EATS is the foremost international organization dealing with the academic study of Taiwan. I highly recommend it [...]

I’d like to thank Kerim at Savage Minds and Keywords for pointing me to the excellent blog - Knowledge Rules.
Knowledge Rules is a group blog drawing from a team of very experienced researchers and experts from the knowledge industry. The blog states ts purpose,
… is to generate an informed discussion about the metrics involved in [...]

Last week, I gave a presentation in my department about how to present papers at TESOL conferences. The goal of the presentation was to help teachers with little research experience to understand the best way to approach conference presentation. This post is based on my talk.

The Problem

The majority of foreign teachers involved in English teaching [...]

A recent post from Global Higher Education addresses an issue that I’ve found troubling for a long time. The post, entitled Global higher education: what alternative models for emerging higher education systems?, was written by guest writers Moshidi Sirat and Ooi Poh Ling. It’s main point is the way in which post-colonial states have,
…adopted the [higher [...]

While I have made the point that the KMT government in Taiwan has a special relationship with academic censorship, in fact, the firing of professors is a growing issue worldwide. Dr. Denis Rancourt, a tenured full professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Ottawa, was dismissed on Tuesday. You can find [...]

I’m reposting this description of Taiwan university reforms. Knowledge of these reforms is central to any understanding of the current education system here.
I’d like to thank Clyde Warden and Q Book for making available this webcast of an interview with Dr. Robert Reynolds.

Robert is the chair of National Chi Nan University Department of Foreign Languages. [...]