About BEST Program
Mission/Vision
The Office of International Affairs (OIA) is responsible for developing National Taiwan University's (NTU) strategy for comprehensive internationalization. OIA plays a vital role in NTU's pursuit of excellence by cultivating international partnerships and creating global opportunities in the interests of students, faculty, and staff. We strive to offer accessible options for international students of all backgrounds to study at NTU, increase global engagement, and foster a campus environment of diversity and inclusion.
Goals
Partnerships
NTU maintains formal academic partnerships with more than 600 institutions in 67 countries. We seek not only to deepen those relationships but also to cultivate new ones continually.
Mobility
OIA provides our students, faculty, and staff with optimal international mobility, facilitating extensive exchange, research, and study-abroad opportunities.
Diversity and Inclusion
We strive to build a diverse community of international students, enhancing aid to underrepresented and marginalized students and promoting policies and practices that mitigate structural inequalities.
Environment
Cooperating with offices and departments across NTU, OIA aims to increase multilingual and multicultural spaces on campus, facilitate cross-cultural exchange between local and international communities, and enhance student support services.
We embrace the aforementioned vision through the following initiatives and partnerships :
Through the Taiwan Huayu BEST Program, NTU will
Cultivate Chinese language education collaborations with overseas higher education systems
Promote Mandarin Chinese language education globally
Leverage Taiwan's cultural heritage and NTU's resources in Chinese language instruction to become a key institution for international Chinese learners
Promote academic exchanges in the field of Chinese language pedagogy with international scholars
Strengthen Taiwan's efforts of bilingualization in its K-12 education system
Diversify the types of collaboration we implement with our partner institutions to increase avenues for Chinese language learning internationally
Utilize online educational technology and resources to maximize learning without boundaries
Establish an overseas Chinese language resource center to promote Taiwan's Chinese language education resource
Assist with the efforts to promote the bilingualization of Taiwan through initiatives like "Hands Together" that allows for bi-directional language learning