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TAIWAN has been steady in annually granting
postgraduate and Mandarin-language study scholarships to Filipinos
as well as in joining educational projects organized by local
colleges and universities.
For the past four years, Taiwan
has participated in De La Salle University’s International
Educational Expo Fair. The DLSU expo has been a venue for foreign
embassies and educational institutions to familiarize Filipino
students with educational opportunities in their countries.
Other than Taiwan, the other
foreign countries and institutions that have been joining DLSU’s
educational expo are Japan, the British Council in the Philippines,
New Zealand, Canada, France and Australia.
There are few occasions when the
flag of the Taiwan-based
“Republic of China” is seen
in the Philippines. The ROC was trounced by the communists’
People’s Republic of China in 1949 and ended up ruling only Taiwan
and some other islands off the Fujian coast of mainland China. The
ROC flag is displayed at the Taiwan exhibit at the DLSU
International Educational Expo Fair.
To promote academic exchange
between Taiwan and the Philippines, the Taiwan government every year
provides seven scholarship grants to Filipino scholars pursuing
masteral and doctoral degrees.
Taiwan scholars receive a monthly
stipend of NT$30,000 (approximately US$950). Deadline for
submission of applications and required documents is March 31.
Also annually, the Taiwan
government offers six scholarship grants to Filipinos to study the
Mandarin language in Taiwan.
Mandarin is the official spoken
language of China (called putonghua, or common speech, in Mandarin)
as distinguished from the various other regional or provincial
dialect-speech forms (such as Fujianese/Fookienese, Cantonese, Shanghainese,
Hunanese, etc.)
Mandarin-language scholars
receive a monthly stipend of NT$25,000 (approximately US$790).
Deadline for submission of applications and requirements is also
March 31, 2007.
Applicants—for both the
post-graduate and Mandarin-language scholarships—can download
application forms from the website of the Taipei Economic and
Cultural Office (TECO) at www.taiwanoffice.org.ph.
Guidelines for the scholarships
and application forms are also available at the Press Division of
the Taipei Economic & Cultural Office (TECO), 41st Floor, Tower
1, RCBC Plaza, 6819 Ayala Avenue, Makati City from 8:30 a.m. to 12
noon and 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday to Friday. Applicants may
also call the TECO for further information at 887-6688 ext. 141
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