A Taiwanese higher education information Web site called Daxuewen (大學問) last month held an online talk titled “Helping Taiwan-Europe Connectivity Scholarship-holders Stay in Taiwan: Let the World See Taiwan.”
The talk was organized to support 443 international students from 17 European nations who are recipients of a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Taiwan-Europe Connectivity Scholarship. These exchange students, who came to Taiwan to learn Chinese or study an academic discipline, had without warning been informed in days prior that they must leave Taiwan once their student visas have expired.
Many of Taiwan’s public universities have called on the Ministry of Education