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i am currently the president of the national university. >> you have been the was a -- have been the president of national yang-ming university you -- since 2010. can you give us a general assessment of the state of higher education in taiwan today? >> sure. i think we are facing numerous challenges for higher education in taiwan. the first thing that comes to many people's minds as we are facing a crisis of having fewer newborn born every year. not long ago, it was 200,000 a year and now it has dropped to about 140,000. i think in a sense the impact of the university is number one. the other one is we are surrounded by regions like hong kong and singapore that are very aggressive in terms of including the faculty members in taiwan. it is a challenge to retain and recruit talent for the university in taiwan. also, one of the topics about hikes in taiwan and for your information, in taiwan, that you u.s. dollar compared to $40,000 for the private university in the states, it is very low and will be difficult to maintain the high quality of education. in the last five or 10 years or so,
i am currently the president of the national university. >> you have been the was a -- have been the president of national yang-ming university you -- since 2010. can you give us a general assessment of the state of higher education in taiwan today? >> sure. i think we are facing numerous challenges for higher education in taiwan. the first thing that comes to many people's minds as we are facing a crisis of having fewer newborn born every year. not long ago, it was 200,000 a year...
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you mama to be here and colleen am currently the prison of a nation we i mean is that this was a little whooping the president on national young university since two thousand and ten can you please start off the program give this a general assessment of the state of high education in town went to take her. i think that though we are facing numerous talented student for hyde education to want to imprison come to mind probably too many people's mind is that though we facing the prices of any of you and your warm breath does every year. not too long was above twenty thousand pts for years been no drop to forty and fifty others. so even if you use. i think that what you receive you. since the event the tenth of the impact of the university has stayed past the mall want. until one is that the whistle on the five countries and regions says that in many china hong kong and singapore there were a chorus of the tunes including the integrity of members in taiwan for the awkward high salary so he says helens to the retail so to recoup talents the believers in taiwan. and also the pub eight is one of the hot topics about the tissues and hikes in tai
you mama to be here and colleen am currently the prison of a nation we i mean is that this was a little whooping the president on national young university since two thousand and ten can you please start off the program give this a general assessment of the state of high education in town went to take her. i think that though we are facing numerous talented student for hyde education to want to imprison come to mind probably too many people's mind is that though we facing the prices of any of...
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. >> you are a graduate from the nuclear engineering department at the national university here in taiwan trade what are some of the cooperative programs your current university has with your alma mater and other leading institutions run the world? you just mentioned cambridge university. are there any other institutions that have ongoing cooperations with the city university in hong kong? >> that is very good rate more than happy to share some of the academic secrets. strictly speaking, not just in taiwan, but in aging, we have three universities that are working together to rotate the students in the nuclear program. to understand the paradigms today and the agendas area we also work with the national university on joining the program. the university students come for two years and they can get a degree on both sides. we have also had ongoing projects with columbia university in new york with athletics. we have about five students there to join together with columbia university and the city university hong kong. two degrees at the same time. >> we understand that in addition to being on
. >> you are a graduate from the nuclear engineering department at the national university here in taiwan trade what are some of the cooperative programs your current university has with your alma mater and other leading institutions run the world? you just mentioned cambridge university. are there any other institutions that have ongoing cooperations with the city university in hong kong? >> that is very good rate more than happy to share some of the academic secrets. strictly...
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the university of oxford, both in second place. the university of tokyo advanced four places from last year to 23rd position worldwide. it ranked as the top university in asia for the third year. the national university of singapore became second in asia and 26th overall. seoul national university in south korea and peking yuft in 44th and 45th places respectfully. many other asian universities moved higher in the global ranktion. in the globarankings. >> for 70 years, donald king has been in japanese literature. since he first became a book in a new york book shop, king spent his life introducing japanese culture to the world. last month a museum and research center dedicated to his work opened in the prefecture. we have this report. the center in the city is morehan a meumfis life and works. it's also intendeds to a center for studying thfield of japane literature. the main hall holds an exhibit on nine individuals who played pivotal roles in his development and draws visitors through the trajectory of his life and work. visitors can also see his library, which was brought over from new york and reconstructed. to promote this study of japanese literature he donated 2,500 books, records a
the university of oxford, both in second place. the university of tokyo advanced four places from last year to 23rd position worldwide. it ranked as the top university in asia for the third year. the national university of singapore became second in asia and 26th overall. seoul national university in south korea and peking yuft in 44th and 45th places respectfully. many other asian universities moved higher in the global ranktion. in the globarankings. >> for 70 years, donald king has...
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the national association for the advancement of colored people, born in minnesota. wonderful man. and then there was whitney young who was born in kentucky. he was the dean of the school of social work at atlanta university and later became the head of the national urban league. there was another man by the name of james farmer. farmer had attended a college in texas, and he was part of the debating team. this little school, this little debating team debated harvard, and they won. later he did graduate study at harvard university and became very involved with the naacp and later was one of the founders of the congress of racial equality.
the national association for the advancement of colored people, born in minnesota. wonderful man. and then there was whitney young who was born in kentucky. he was the dean of the school of social work at atlanta university and later became the head of the national urban league. there was another man by the name of james farmer. farmer had attended a college in texas, and he was part of the debating team. this little school, this little debating team debated harvard, and they won. later he did...
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. >> to prevent that from happening again after the next storm, the united nations university has comeith a hurricane insurance plan. project manager sobiah becker is working with local insurer ec global. it will sell the policy. the idea behind it is simple. a policy costs 80 east carribean dollars per year. when a hurricane hits, the insurer will pay policyholders $1,000, regardless of whether the storm has done any damage. an independent weather station measures rain and wind speed. it's an unusual idea. and, at first, it was hard for becker to win over an insurer. >> you know, any time you went >> you know, any time you went to an insurer and said, well, you know, there doesn't have to be real proof of damage but if wind and rain speeds exceed certain threshold limits, there will be an automatic pay-out. obviously, this was a completely new concept and it was difficult for the insurer first of all to come to grips with it. >> when there are no hurricanes, we benefit. but when a disaster comes, we have to pay out a significant amount as well. so, there's a potential there to make mo
. >> to prevent that from happening again after the next storm, the united nations university has comeith a hurricane insurance plan. project manager sobiah becker is working with local insurer ec global. it will sell the policy. the idea behind it is simple. a policy costs 80 east carribean dollars per year. when a hurricane hits, the insurer will pay policyholders $1,000, regardless of whether the storm has done any damage. an independent weather station measures rain and wind speed....
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students who should be starting a new academic year across town it's a similar story at the national technological university so this auditorium should be full of students right now it has absolutely fortunately it's because of the serious cutbacks in a minister of the of personnel and in public subsidies but cannot work we are to choose not to work because there is no possibility for that in fact empty lecture halls and desolate corridors can be seen it eighteen of the cities across greece all deciding to shut is cut back slash their admin staffing levels by as much as forty percent back at the demonstration one lecturer shows me a letter being sent to universities around the world asking for their support there is a serious threat against greek universe it's against greek public universities so everybody fears. people who are going to lose their jobs and that public universities will be a thing of the past in a few months it is a desperate attempt to protect the higher education system but the greek government at this stage stands firm a deal struck. the e.u. and i.m.f. to secure more bailout funding means
students who should be starting a new academic year across town it's a similar story at the national technological university so this auditorium should be full of students right now it has absolutely fortunately it's because of the serious cutbacks in a minister of the of personnel and in public subsidies but cannot work we are to choose not to work because there is no possibility for that in fact empty lecture halls and desolate corridors can be seen it eighteen of the cities across greece all...
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for the culture was dramatically reformulated and reconstructed of all -- along the nation itself and from the university of amsterdam how america mess culture took form and exported to europe but many europeans but they looked at the transmission of the mass culture and the perception live of the end of the civil war and the 1920's. it is not really the end by a question to you reconstruct to put it back together again? and of course, they split get the political system how is reassembled. so what one needs to do is take into account as part of a reef formation of the united states. it becomes a real interesting into t but there is a decline of services suspect how often do kit people of different but had you get people to imagine themselves with then the cultural form talks about buffalo bill's wild west but they try to seek death themselves but to use this -- but this begins with the world's fair in london, and an ash blond dash but also participating in the exhibition in 1950 -- teetwo 51 as they have the system of manufacturing fat they pick jeff spee to what we eric you in the book is buffalo bill'
for the culture was dramatically reformulated and reconstructed of all -- along the nation itself and from the university of amsterdam how america mess culture took form and exported to europe but many europeans but they looked at the transmission of the mass culture and the perception live of the end of the civil war and the 1920's. it is not really the end by a question to you reconstruct to put it back together again? and of course, they split get the political system how is reassembled. so...
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the your us corporation b. and w. and the university of california which have. our ship to run los alamos national laboratory before that it was the university of california. same with lawrence livermore lab so it's been essentially a privatized at this point. yes fully privatized. you know the lab has no way of processing radioactive liquid ways what's happening with this material well it is being processed be facility is old it's been patched there is workarounds and when there is a problem there are storage tanks slowly build up and then look we says process goes. in a kind of a campaign or batch mode but it's not seismically sound and you know there are safety problems so and has to be something has to be done on a per more permanent basis. the question is what scale how grandiose. should the operating contractor which is supposedly a scientific organization be doing this nitty gritty waste management or whether somebody else should be brought in more competent right well what is the solution for this and go area incompetence i mean if there's been privatized there just this utter lack of regu
the your us corporation b. and w. and the university of california which have. our ship to run los alamos national laboratory before that it was the university of california. same with lawrence livermore lab so it's been essentially a privatized at this point. yes fully privatized. you know the lab has no way of processing radioactive liquid ways what's happening with this material well it is being processed be facility is old it's been patched there is workarounds and when there is a problem...
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i believe it was before the president's speech in may at the national defense university where he talked how the al qaeda core was really on the run. >> well, but it was right after 9/11 benghazi that they kept talking about the video producing the spontaneous assault and the president even at the u.n. said that it was -- this video or made the suggestion that they know it was al qaeda then. >> i don't know. that is one of outunderstanding questions. congressman rogers to his credit he was the person on september 12th who called benghazi a commando style terrorist attack on the record to fox. that was an important data point that really started to unravel the administration's narrative. >> we will learn more. anyways, catherine. >> thank you. >> thanks for having me. >>> this is one call you can bet president obama didn't want it came from angela merkel. she rang up the u.s. to ask if the u.s. has been spying on her personal phone. intelligence may have targeted her phone. the white house saying tonight president obama auto sured chancellor merkel the u.s. is not listening in on her phon
i believe it was before the president's speech in may at the national defense university where he talked how the al qaeda core was really on the run. >> well, but it was right after 9/11 benghazi that they kept talking about the video producing the spontaneous assault and the president even at the u.n. said that it was -- this video or made the suggestion that they know it was al qaeda then. >> i don't know. that is one of outunderstanding questions. congressman rogers to his credit...