NCKU IIMBA receives NT$3.45 million grants for program enhancements - CNA
(中央社訊息服務20141118 17:19:37)The Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan has approved a NT$ 3.45 million grant to National Cheng Kung University’s Institute of International Management (NCKU IIMBA) for the enhancement of its Full English Program. This includes a matching fund of NT$900,000 from NCKU, the university revealed today.
The grant is to be used mainly for promoting the program, highlighting its teaching and research capabilities to recruit more international students, which comprises a significant majority of NCKU IIMBA’s student population, according to NCKU IIMBA Director Dr. Jeng-Chung Victor Chen.
He noted that the grant was awarded based on NCKU IIMBA’s proposal containing its plans to improve its students’ capabilities through its course offerings, its pool of faculty members, and the resources at its disposal.
This includes further increasing the number of international students, improving its local students’ international exposure and learning and global competitiveness, and further promoting multi-cultural learning, according to Dr. Chen.
He also indicated that the grant will be used for additional programs and activities designed to further promote the Institute and strengthen its ties with the international academic community, both for professors and students.
According to Dr. Chen, the plans of action to use the grant will include hosting the Information Systems and International Management Forum (ISIMF), inviting foreign scholars and industry experts to deliver guest speeches to IIMBA classes, arranging educational field trips, hosting of international faculty camps, and software training camps.
IIMBA hopes that these additional programs and activities will enhance its overall offerings, and to further promote it, hereby expanding its international and local student and faculty population, and therefore improving its reach and impact to the national and international community.
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The grant is to be used mainly for promoting the program, highlighting its teaching and research capabilities to recruit more international students, which comprises a significant majority of NCKU IIMBA’s student population, according to NCKU IIMBA Director Dr. Jeng-Chung Victor Chen.
He noted that the grant was awarded based on NCKU IIMBA’s proposal containing its plans to improve its students’ capabilities through its course offerings, its pool of faculty members, and the resources at its disposal.
This includes further increasing the number of international students, improving its local students’ international exposure and learning and global competitiveness, and further promoting multi-cultural learning, according to Dr. Chen.
He also indicated that the grant will be used for additional programs and activities designed to further promote the Institute and strengthen its ties with the international academic community, both for professors and students.
According to Dr. Chen, the plans of action to use the grant will include hosting the Information Systems and International Management Forum (ISIMF), inviting foreign scholars and industry experts to deliver guest speeches to IIMBA classes, arranging educational field trips, hosting of international faculty camps, and software training camps.
IIMBA hopes that these additional programs and activities will enhance its overall offerings, and to further promote it, hereby expanding its international and local student and faculty population, and therefore improving its reach and impact to the national and international community.
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