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It's a couple of things. 1) Students in Taiwan score highly on PISA and other ranking of math and science skills. Ie, 4th for Math (vs the USA at 38th or so).
by whoknowswhat11 5y ago
It's a couple of things.
1) Students in Taiwan score highly on PISA and other ranking of math and science skills. Ie, 4th for Math (vs the USA at 38th or so). And engineering is extremely popular as a major. So you've got a strong supply of relatively competent folks.
2) A pretty strong tracking system - 9th grade testing for example means a lot more in Taiwan than in the US which has moved away from tracking efforts as discriminatory. Note also that starting at 16 (ie, high school) folks are already specializing a lot more vocationally etc.
3) Note that some of what is taken for granted in a public high school (fights / theft / violence / disruption) would be completely out of bounds in high school in Taiwan. A legacy of military rule was actually the presence of literal military in high schools - I hope that is long over but kind of a crazy situation - people forget how recent democracy is there and plenty of bad things about having military on campus. School uniforms everywhere (not sure if required but very common)
- refurb 5y agoI’d be interested how important these are in the “real world”. I spent a few years working in Asia. I would agree that volume matters (reminds me of hard science PhDs from Russia and Eastern Europe). That said, I’ve heard from more than a few folks that the Western educated folks tend to be more flexible and independent. But I guess it depends on what you need? If it’s just entry level engineers who follow instructions then I could see Asia being a better source just due to shear numbers. I have no idea how true it is, but I’ve heard that from a few folks.
- barneygale 5y agoWhat's the issue with school uniforms? We have them in the UK and I've always seen them as a way of lessening class divisions between students.
- irrational 5y agoChildren wearing ties contravenes the Geneva Convention.