University head urges continuation of university development project

大學校長敦促繼續推動大學發展計畫

By 中央社
編譯:劉耀畬

2009-11-05 00:00:00

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National Taiwan University (NTU) President Lee Si-chen expressed hope Saturday that the government will continue promoting a project to develop some of the nation's universities into some of the best in the world, the first five-year stage of which will expire at the end of 2010.

國立台灣大學校長李嗣涔二十四日表示，希望政府繼續推動發展我國大學的計畫，使一些大學成為世界上最好的，此計畫第一個五年階段將在二○一○年底到期。

Thanks to the project, NTU recently achieved 95th place in the Higher Education league table of the London Times newspaper, up from 124th in 2008 and marking the first time a Taiwanese school has ranked among the world's top 100 universities on such a list.

多虧此計畫，台大最近在倫敦時報高等教育排名才得以從2008年的第一百二十四名晉升第九十五名，成為這樣的名單上，我國第一所躋身世界排名前一百的學校。

Lee said he hopes the project will go on forever and that with funding, he believes NTU can become one of the world's top 50 or even top 10 universities.

李嗣涔說，他希望這個計畫會永遠存在下去，在有資金挹注的情況下，他認為台大可以成為世界前五十、甚至前十名的大學。

He made the remarks at a ceremony to present the results of the five-year, NT$50 billion (US$1.54 billion) project aimed at boosting the quality of local academic institutions. Minister of Education Wu Ching-chi, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Chairman Morris Chang and Ministry of Education (MOE) Department of Higher Education Director Ho Cho-fey attended the event.

他是在出席提報此一耗資五百億台幣（十五億四千萬美元）的五年計畫結果的儀式上，說出這番話的，這項計畫旨在提高本地學術機構的品質。教育部長吳靜吉、台積電董事長張忠謀和教育部高等教育部總監何倬法伊參加了此次活動。

NTU's new ranking is seen as an encouraging result, as one of the project's goals is to cultivate top-level universities and research centers in global terms.

台大的新排名被看作是令人鼓舞的結果，因為這個計畫的一個目標就是培養全球性的頂級大學和研究中心。

Under the program, the government has allocated NT$10 billion per year to subsidize applied universities and research institutes in efforts to improve their educational facilities and research quality.

在此計劃下，政府每年已撥款一百億元，用於資助提出申請的大學和研究機構，以改善其教育設施和研究的品質。