[Global Times Special Correspondent Zhang Ruoyu Feng] When Peking University and Tsinghua University opened up the admission for Taiwanese students to apply for master's and doctoral programs, the Ministry of Education of the Mainland recently announced a new policy for recruiting Taiwanese students in 2023-allowing Taiwanese students to use Taiwan's "study test" (" "Subject Ability Test", that is, Taiwan's university entrance examination) scores to enroll in mainland universities.
With the progress and development of mainland colleges and universities and their increasing international influence, the willingness of Taiwanese students to study in the mainland is also increasing.
You can register directly with the results of the "study test"
The Ministry of Education announced on the 16th the "2023 Measures for General Higher Education Institutions to Enroll Taiwanese High School Graduates Based on the Subject Ability Test Results of the Taiwan Area University Entrance Examination" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"). Taiwan high school graduates who have valid identity certificates such as residence in Taiwan, and who have achieved "average" grades or above in any of the Chinese, Mathematics, and English subjects in the "study test" of the year can apply.
The registration period is from March 1, 2023 to March 31, 2023.
According to a reporter from the Global Times, Taiwan's "study test" is a "threshold" test for Taiwanese high school graduates to enter universities. Generally, after obtaining the "study test" score, they need to participate in more in-depth sub-subject examinations, school interviews and other screening procedures. .
There are 5 subjects in the "study test", which are Chinese, Mathematics, English, Society and Nature, and 4 of them are selected for the final score (that is, one of Society and Nature is selected).
The full score of each subject is 15 points, and the scores are divided into "top standard" (more than 88% of students), "front standard" (75%), "average standard" (50%), and "post standard" (25%) And the "bottom mark" (12%), the specific score distribution of each subject is different every year.
Taking 2022 as an example, the score distribution of science students who choose nature is 50 points for "top mark", 44 points for "front mark", 34 points for "average mark", 25 points for "back mark" and 19 points for "bottom mark".
Students from Taiwan adopt a parallel voluntary method to fill in the volunteers of mainland universities. Each Taiwan candidate can fill in 6 schools, and each school can fill in 6 departments, and choose whether to obey the "professional adjustment" (that is, to be assigned to other departments of the same school) ).
Candidates can modify their volunteers before the registration deadline, and they cannot be modified after the deadline.
The review and assessment period is from April 1 to May 14, 2023. After that, the school will notify candidates to participate in the assessment, and the school can add written tests or interviews as needed.
Regarding the admission principles, the "Measures" pointed out that mainland colleges and universities will select the best candidates according to the admissions guidelines based on the "study test" scores of Taiwanese candidates, as well as the learning experience and social practice during middle school.
The willingness of Taiwanese students to enroll continues to increase
Taiwan's Zhongshi News reported on the 17th that Wei Jiahui, CEO of Taiwan's education consulting platform "University Questions", said that the way mainland universities recruit Taiwanese high school students is close to Taiwan's own way of recruiting students. For interviews, online interviews and written examinations are now open, and the requirements for subjects such as "study tests" are reduced, "making it more convenient for Taiwanese students to apply for mainland universities."
Judging from the latest "Measures", if Taiwanese students do not make the list for the first time, they still have a second chance to apply.
Wei Jiahui specifically mentioned that when Taiwanese students are admitted to the mainland, they adopt the "additional quota" process. The number of admitted students has a fixed number of places, and it will not exclude the education rights of mainland students.
As for whether the current cross-strait tensions will affect the willingness of Taiwanese students to enroll, he said that mainland universities have recently been rising in international rankings, leaving top universities in Hong Kong and Taiwan behind. The strength of Taiwan's enrollment naturally attracts high school students from Taiwan to enroll.
A Taiwanese student studying at Shanghai Jiaotong University said that he knows that it is very difficult for mainland students to be admitted to these top universities. Almost only the champions in various places have the opportunity to enter prestigious schools; now Taiwanese students have channels to study in the mainland. It is also very convenient, so it is very attractive to Taiwanese high school graduates.
Taiwanese youths who have worked in Beijing for many years revealed that even though cross-strait relations have been unstable in recent years and there are factors such as the epidemic, the overall number of Taiwanese students studying in the mainland is still the same, and most hope to stay in the mainland to work after graduation.
Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Mainland, provided data as early as September, saying that the number of Taiwanese students studying in the mainland has remained stable in recent years. Currently, there are about 12,000 Taiwanese students studying in mainland universities.
In fact, this year, the use of "study test" results for Taiwan's enrollment has been piloted, and the unified enrollment platform was launched for the first time. 207 schools including Peking University and Tsinghua University participated. The annual growth rate of admitted students exceeds 20%.
She emphasized that the mainland welcomes more Taiwanese students to study in the mainland, which will create better conditions for them to grow up in the mainland and realize their ideals in life.
Taiwanese experts worry that Taiwan's colleges and universities will not attract mainland students
At the same time, some Taiwanese media are concerned that the number of mainland students going to Taiwan has dropped significantly.
According to Taiwan's United News Network reported on the 15th, the 2022 academic year of mainland students studying in Taiwan will be released in July. According to statistics from Taiwan's "Joint Recruitment Association for Terrestrial Students", 45 schools have enrolled 465 master's and doctoral students, and the enrollment rate is only 31%.
According to the latest number of registrations released by the "Joint Recruitment Association for Land Students" on November 22, only 377 of the enrollments registered, which is equivalent to 18% of the total number of registrations in 2019 in the year before the epidemic, compared with 4,817 registrations in 2015 , is only 8% of it.
According to Lianhe News, Fang Yuanyi, the former dean of Taiwan's "Chinese Culture University", said that Taiwan's higher education environment was good for mainland students in the past, and the tuition fees were cheap; easy to use".
Wang Xiangyu, director of the Department of Mass Communication of the school, also said that in the past, the experience of studying in Taiwan was a bonus for mainland students. Mainland higher education circles and private companies mostly regard studying in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as foreign experience. However, as the cross-strait situation changes, mainland students If there is another way out, as long as the economy permits, it will be transferred to Europe and the United States.
(Global Times)