THE Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines is inviting all qualified Filipino students to pursue graduate and post-graduate studies as part of Taiwan’s “New Southbound Policy.”
“Taipei Economic and Cultural Office [Teco] in the Philippines has announced various scholarship programs which are now open to qualified Filipino students,” the Teco said in a statement.
“As the Republic of China [Taiwan] under the leadership of Dr. Tsai Ing-wen, is pushing forward the “New Southbound Policy,” it has opened more slots and types of scholarship programs- giving more chances for Filipinos to study in Taiwan, learn the traditional Mandarin language, experience the rich and vibrant Taiwanese culture and broaden their international perspectives,” the Teco added.
The Teco said available scholarships are master’s and doctoral degrees or even for those Filipinos who wanted to learn the Mandarin language.
Since the introduction of these scholarship programs to the Philippines, Taiwan has partnered with Philippine institutions and universities to attract more young and capable talents to study in Taiwan.
Most of the scholars who successfully finished their degrees now hold various key positions in the government, business and other sectors.
In a statement, Dr. Gary Song-Huann Lin, Representative of Taiwan/ROC to the Philippines said that he hopes that “more and more” Filipinos will seize these opportunities to study and experience Taiwan, as the two countries share a lot of commonalities and could really work together.
“Taiwan can offer the resources, knowledge and technology, while Philippines can complement it through its young talents who are willing to equip themselves and be trained,” Lin said.
For this year, TECO is offering four scholarship programs; one, is the Ministry of Education (MOE) Scholarship; two, the Huaya (Mandarin) Enrichment Scholarship; three, International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF); and Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).
The MOE Scholarship give two years scholarship for Master’s and four years for Doctoral Degree. For this program, the Taiwan government will shoulder 40,000 NTD of the tuition and the remaining costs will be shouldered by the scholar.
“An additional 20,000 NTD will be given every month as scholar’s stipend”, the TECO said.
The application for this program will be from February 1 to April 30, 2017.