KUALA LUMPUR: National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) recently entered into an agreement to jointly establish the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science (TSE), together with the TSE Foundation.
According to a statement, it is being set up with a $100 million donation from entrepreneur Lin Chen-hai, the founder of the Pau Jar Group. ($1 = RM4.335)
The TSE’s mission is to provide world-class education in economics, international politics, and public affairs, with Asia as the centre of gravity, and will soon begin recruiting top-notch faculty from worldwide.
At the signing ceremony, TSE Foundation chairman Huang Huang-hsiung said the TSE would be located on the NTHU campus, and this type of cooperation between the public and private sectors was a new first in Taiwan’s history of higher education.
NTHU president Hocheng Hong said the plan for establishing the TSE had already been approved by the Ministry of Education, and that it would soon begin recruiting master’s and doctoral students for the 2021-22 school year, two thirds of whom would be international students, with all courses taught in English.
The TSE will be the 11th college at NTHU, and its multi-disciplinary master’s and doctoral programmes will be modelled on those of the London School of Economics. The TSE plans to admit at least 10 master’s students for the 2021-22 school year.
During the initial phase, TSE classes will be held in the Innovation Incubation Building on the NTHU campus, until the programme’s own building is completed both on campus and in Taipei. – Bernama
