EDUCATION AND CULTURE

EDUCATION

Taiwan implemented a 12-year compulsory education system in 2014.
There are 145 universities and colleges in Taiwan.

Education is an important component of ROC government policymaking and accounts for a large portion of the budget. With an increasing emphasis on the importance of attaining tertiary education, those with at least a technical college or university degree account for 44 percent of Taiwan’s population aged 15 and above, an 11 percentage points increase over the past decade.

CULTURE

Taiwan is the center of the Mandarin pop music industry.
The National Palace Museum in Taipei City contains one of the largest collections of ancient Chinese artifacts in the world.

Taiwan is renowned for its fascinating blend of traditional and modern culture. To showcase the nation’s history and cultural diversity, museums have been established across Taiwan, including the National Palace Museum, National Taiwan Museum and National Museum of History.

LEARNING MANDARIN

LEARNING MANDARIN

The number of foreign students learning Mandarin in Taiwan has doubled over the past decade.
The government’s Huayu Enrichment Scholarship offers financial support to foreign students who wish to study Mandarin in Taiwan.

Traditional Chinese characters are a treasured cultural legacy and product of thousands of years of linguistic evolution. In modern Taiwan, traditional Chinese characters are utilized as the written form of Mandarin, one of the nation’s official languages.