Internationalization of the Curriculum of Higher Education in Taiwan: Survey and Indicator Construction (I)

The first extensive evaluation of universities has been done in 2005 and the extent of internationalization of higher education has been included as one of evaluation indicators. From the evaluation results, internationalization in those evaluated universities remains as an add-on activity though the state-of-the-art strategies of internationalization appears diverse.

It’s time, however, for universities and academics to think how to create more spill-over effects from those add-on activities via promoting the internationalization of curriculum, while local student population who outnumbers the foreign students and tends to remain at home to finish their degrees. Though much international literature on the internationalization of curriculum of higher education, this study will be the first study on this issue through the survey.