Integration of the Higher Education Industry in Taiwan

Standing on the macro side, there are different kinds of changing pounding higher educational industry in Taiwan, like overall economic situation, internationalization or the tendency to have fewer children. On the other side, universities and colleges are under attack of uneven distribution of resources, closure of private schools and the plight of registration rate reduction. Government tries to save education institutions from various dilemmas but more problems rise up, for instance, staff placement, conflict views of school running and so on. How to resolve this difficulty? While ministry of education is busy at framing long-term education policy, universities could do their jobs on international enrollment, professional education and continuing studies to provision enough financial resources of multiple projects. Also, communication plays an important role in integration. To settle a dispute from two parties, like re-allocation of human resources, is to increase possibility of fulfilling merging case without a hitch. In this study, I try to arrange reference documents to understand theories and patterns combined with the diversification of organizations, thus to discuss with the past and status of higher education industry in Taiwan. Moreover, by studying demand side of education industry and finishing resource integration cases in this field, I would attempt to explain the need of merging and diversification development and provide some future directions.