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Mr. Michael O’Sullivan visited NCKU on Nov. 16th |
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| Mr. Michael Joseph O'Sullivan and Dr. Da-Hsuan Feng |
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(中央社訊息服務20091125 11:36:18)Tainan, TAIWAN, Nov. 16th--Mr. Michael Joseph O'Sullivan, CMG, Director of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and Cambridge Overseas Trust, together with Drs. Christine Skinner, Director of British Council Taipei, visited National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, on Nov. 16th. The NCKU Senior Executive Vice President (SEVP), Dr. Da-Hsuan Feng (馮達旋), on behalf of the NCKU President, Academician Michael Ming-Chiao Lai (賴明詔), together with Prof. H. Jenny Su (蘇慧貞), the Vice President for International Affairs, cordially received Mr. O'Sullivan, CMG, and Drs. Skinner.
Dr. Feng sincerely welcomed Mr. O’Sullivan to NCKU. “First of all, I knew this is your first time coming to NCKU. So let me give you a brief introduction of our university. NCKU was established in 1931, and just celebrated its 79th anniversary. We cooperated with Purdue University on the Purdue-NCKU project, which began in 1952 and completed in 1962. This project was part of the US-Aid Program that brought a remarkable amount of educational assistance to universities in the Asia Pacific region,” said Dr. Feng.
During the 10 years chronicled by the exhibition, nearly 1.6 million US dollars and 53 million NT dollars in US Aid had been infused into what is today NCKU. Funds attributable to US Aid accounted for 90% of the school’s total budget during this period. Out of US Aid, over US$ 748,000 was allocated to the purchase of teaching equipment, instruments and books; more than US$ 703,000 was used for Purdue advisor salaries and travel expenses; and some US$ 135,000 was used to support oversea study for NCKU educators & staffs. The largest portion of US Aid funds denominated in NT dollars was spent on campus construction. In addition to financial support, Purdue University introduced new teaching methods and courses, and modernized the entire campus.
The most significant of its efforts were the Purdue professors that were sent to NCKU to advise the administration, research and teaching while the NCKU faculties were sent to Purdue University for studies. Purdue University has played such a pivotal role for NCKU to reach what it is today. In addition, Taiwan Provincial Cheng Kung University, later changed to NCKU, was renamed from Taiwan Provincial College of Engineering in 1956. Cheng Kung in the official name of NCKU is not only a homophone of “success” in Mandarin, but is also truly named from “General Cheng Cheng-Kung”, also known as Koxinga.
NCKU has an outstanding medical school and affiliated teaching hospitals. With three quarters of a century of distinguished history, with well over 130,000 powerful alumni now dotting the globe, many have achieved supreme successes in arts, business, education, science, technology and healthcare. NCKU provided so many resources such as advanced national-scale research centers and laboratories to support the teaching and research environment for all the students. Moreover, students graduated from NCKU mostly will possess excellent competence to ensure their career success in Taiwan and in the world. NCKU is totally a comprehensive university.
“People in United Kingdoms, they only studied until undergraduate. They do not like to study further in graduated school. In UK, most graduate students are from overseas. For example, among 50% of all graduates in our school are international students. Chinese students take up the most in Asian. I realized this situation in UK. I have worked in China for almost 15 years. There are many excellent students in China with desire but without any money for them studying abroad. As such, I helped them study in Cambridge University,” said Mr. O’Sullivan.
“In Cambridge, we cooperated with many prestigious universities, for example, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and also with many multinational companies, namely with different kinds of industries and institutions. Both of us pay for students’ tuition, and any cooperated institutions have to help us find more excellent students coming to Cambridge University. This is a mutual benefit between two of us,” said Mr. O’Sullivan.
“I believe there are also many excellent students from Taiwan. I read the news very often about the Taiwanese students, such as receiving international awards and creative innovations, and so on. However, I hardly meet students from Taiwan studying in our university. I believed that Cambridge University is very famous in Taiwan. Hence, I really hope to see more Taiwanese students coming to our school. Cambridge University will provide scholarship and doctor training programs to them. This is the reason I come over Taiwan for one week to search for any cooperation from institutions,” said Mr. O’Sullivan, representing University of Cambridge to build up close cooperation with Taiwan’s higher education institutions actively.
Besides NCKU, Mr. O’Sullivan also visited three other Taiwanese universities, including National Taiwan University (NTU), National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), and National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), as well as three institutions, including Academia Sinica, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), and National Science Council (NSC).
After Mr. O’Sullivan’s introduction, Dr. Feng showed his high interest about this program. “Academician Michael M.C. Lai, the NCKU President, and I had been worked abroad for a long time. We both are making efforts in internationalization of NCKU. President Lai will also be very delighted to know this information. Our students will have more chances to study in Cambridge University if you could provide us with the scholarship and training programs. You university is indeed famous in Taiwan, but also very hard to get into. You only accept the very top and excellent students. It will be our honor and opportunity to be more internationalized if NCKU students could study there. Moreover, the higher education in UK, especially from your university, is a good model for us to learn. Probably it is a good opportunity for NCKU to extend the collaborative relationship with other excellent universities over the world,” said SEVP Feng.
Drs. Skinner also commented that she is really impressed with the sound system of higher education in Taiwan and the emphases on education by Taiwan’s universities. There are many excellent universities in Taiwan. Also she highly praised Prof. H. Jenny Su, NCKU VP for International Affairs, for her valuable contributions to NCKU students. “She has actively contacted us about the students’ oversea programs and international scholarships. That is the main reason why we came up here. We really hope to give this opportunity to any universities which hoped to cooperate with University of Cambridge, and even other British higher educational institutions,” said Dr. Skinner.
About Mr. Michael Joseph O’Sullivan, CMG
Mr. Michael O’Sullivan, CMG, became Director of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and Cambridge Overseas Trust on 1 October 2008.
He spent much of his earlier career in China, most recently as Secretary General of the European Chamber of Commerce in China (2007~2008), where he promoted the interests of European companies in gaining greater access to China’s domestic market.
From 1985~2007, Michael worked for the British Council, and from 2000 until 2007 was based in Beijing as the British Council’s China Director. During this period Michael worked to expand UK-China cooperation in education and culture, successfully promoting the UK as a leading destination for Chinese students, expanding the role of UK examinations and qualifications in China, and helping UK arts and education organizations establish programs and networks in China.
Earlier in his British Council career, Michael worked in Beijing as Assistant Director from 1987~90 and as Director South China, based in Hong Kong, from 1993~1995. He also worked for the British Council in London as Director for East Asia and the Pacific from 1997~2000, and as Head of Corporate Planning from 1995~1997.
Michael first worked in China as an English Teacher at Xiangtan Teachers’ College, Hunan Province, from 1982~84, under the UK’s Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) program. In total, he has spent fifteen years in China, and reads and speaks Chinese fluently.
Mr. Michael O’Sullivan was born in Birmingham, England in 1958, and is a national of both the United Kingdom and Ireland. After attending school in Birmingham, he studied modern languages (German and French) at Oxford University, where he obtained a BA (Honors) degree First Class in 1982. In 1985 he obtained the degree of Master of Philosophy in General Linguistics from Cambridge University. He is also an alumnus of the London Business School Senior Executive Program. In the Queen’s New Year’s Honors List 2008, he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in recognition of services to the British Council.
About Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and the Cambridge Overseas Trust
The Cambridge Commonwealth Trust (for Commonwealth countries, excluding the United Kingdom) and the Cambridge Overseas Trust (formerly the Chancellor's Fund, for countries outside the Commonwealth) were established in 1982 and 1989 respectively by the University of Cambridge under the Chairman-ship of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales to provide financial assistance for outstanding students from overseas who, without help, would be unable to take up their places at Cambridge. Since 1982, the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust has brought 8,139 students from 68 countries to Cambridge, the Cambridge Overseas Trust 6,252 students from 113 countries.
The Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and the Cambridge Overseas Trust offer a number of scholarships and bursaries, under a multiplicity of schemes, to enable candidates of outstanding academic merit from around the world (excluding the United Kingdom) to pursue courses of study or research at the University of Cambridge. These awards are for all levels of graduate and undergraduate study.
About National Cheng Kung University (NCKU):
NCKU is located in the ancient city of Tainan, the historical and ancient cultural capital city of Taiwan, which boasts more than 50 national relics sanctioned by the government and is approximately 250 kilometers south of Taipei. It is connected to all major cities in Taiwan by the recently initiated state-of-the-art Taiwan High Speed Rail. Further, this historical heritage is the pride of Tainan City and represents a rich cultural resource to NCKU. The technological sectors in the Southern Taiwan Science Park offer students at NCKU with a stage to apply what they have learned into practice.
With three quarters of a century of distinguished history, with well over 130,000 powerful alumni now dotting the globe, many have achieved supreme successes in arts, business, education, science, technology and healthcare and are ready and willing to assist the 22,000 academic selective students and 1200 academic faculty members. Currently, both have an international flavor, with enormous regional support, and there is a permeating culture of proactive intellectual growth on the world’s stage NCKU in Tainan, Taiwan, has evolved from its engineering genesis into a powerful and comprehensive research international university in the Asia Pacific.
Since NCKU’s establishment in 1931, it has developed into a research intensive and comprehensive university with integrated academic fields in nine colleges: Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Planning & Design, Management, Social Sciences, Medicine, and Bioscience & Biotechnology. NCKU currently offers 40 undergraduate programs (excluding the Program of Bachelor’s Degree), 78 master’s degree programs, 54 doctoral programs and 20 master’s degree programs for working professionals.
For further information contact:
NCKU Press Officer Julia (Ying-Chen) Liu
Office: +886-6-275-7575 ext. 50042
E-mail: yingchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw
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