yamane university since 2010. -- national yang-ming university since 2010. you have been confronted with a not very friendly environment. how do you confront the challenges for your students? more competition from other universities and other places like hong kong or singapore? how do you deal with that? rex this is not unique. one of the things with the health of the government and the national science consul in particular, they shipped in a good amount of financial support to have a flexible salary. you and i come to the university at the same time. we have the same salary, so there is no merit system. we have a distinguished chair professor, two different kinds, and i think a reasonable salary, hoping we can attract distinguished professors to join us. that is one thing we are doing. you also mentioned fundraising. ne thing i did not have muchng. experience before coming back to taiwan, but i'm working very hard and it's not easy, but my sense is in taiwan, a lot of people in the industry have a good mind that really want

the focus of the evening the president on national young university since two thousand and ten and in the last few meters on your leadership the outcome from that with a not so friendly fire. come to you then make adjustments and come from the challenges put sample fewer students. and of more competition from the universities and other places like hong kong singapore and how to deal with this helmet. sure and this is not unique to him and yelled yummy. i don't wanna think that and because it was fun of a common theme. mr education and the mission sounds cool so you can take over in picture two things it could to the amount of growth of the financial support to the two knew what to have a flexible for us already knew i was sleepy and i have to overcome to the yumminess in time indian fantastically and i'm getting so so yep we had to send to some sewing and says is no merit system the th that's changing now. oh and in the army and can take what we have and that the sting which cheerful this is the arrangement with the feasting to perfect a professor to different kinds could then go with

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 and artifacts to be housed in the room. for over 50 years, keen w

. >> 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

. >> 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

it is instead carried out in our nation's universities. china has noticed that and is now investing heavily in creating great research universities. we are disinfesting at the same time and so we are rapidly creating innovation deficit. the innovation deficit to the long term is just as important as over the long term we are going to lose our advantage and innovation and someone else is going to get and that will determine economic success in the future. most of the prizes as it has been the case for some time now are awarded to american researchers and frankly to the researchers warn and other countries who now were acquired? at our university. how much longer is that going to go on if we continue the innovation deficit and is investing in research and other countries have seen that as the long-term goal? we need to fix this problem quickly and stop the crisis management and get on to thinking about the long-term investment, the only thing that is when to lead to long-term success in the country. thank you. for an academic, that is a brief

students who should be starting a new academic year across time 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 serious cutbacks in minister of personnel and in public subsidies but they're not work we are to choose not to work because there is no possibility for that in fact empty lecture halls and desolate corydoras can be seen it eighteen of the cities across greece all deciding to shut this cut bank slashed 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 i think over 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 for a deal. struck with the e.u. and i.m.f. to secure funding means four thous

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.

fundamental research is instead carried out in our nation's universities. well, china has noticed that and is now investing heavily in creating great research universities. we are disinvesting at the same time. and so we're rapidly creating an innovation deficit. the innovation deficit long term is just as important as the budget deficit. but what is says is we will lose our advantage and someone else will give which will then determine economic success in the future. we just won a bunch of nobel prizes this weekend last. most of those prizes, as has been the case for some time now, are awarded to american researchers and frankly to researchers born in other countries pinot work at our universities. how much longer is that going to go on if we continue the innovation deficit and is investing in research and other countries that have seen as their long-term goal. we need to fix this problem and fix it quickly and stop the crisis management and get on to thinking about the long-term investments, the only thing that will lead to long-term success for this count

fundamental research is instead carried out in our nation's universities. china has noticed that and is now investing heavily in creating great research universities. we are disinvesting at the same time. so we are rapidly creating an innovation deficit. the innovation deficit to me long term is just as important as the budget deficit. because what it says is over the long term we are going to lose our advantage in innovation and someone else is going to get it. and that will then determine economic suck is sess in the future. we just won a bunch of nobel prizes again this week and last. most of those prizes as has been the case for some time now, are awarded to american researchers and frankly, to researchers born in other countries who now work where? at our universities. how much longer is that going to go on if we continue the innovation deficit and disinvesting in research when other countries have seen that as their long-term goal? we need to fix this problem and we need to fix it quickly. and stop the crisis management and get on to thinking about the

fundamental research is instead carried out in our nation's universities. china has noticed that and is now investing heavily in creating great research universities. we are disinvesting at the same time. so we are rapidly creating an innovation deficit. the innovation deficit, to me, long term is just as important as the budget deficit. what it says is over the long term, we are going to lose our advantage in innovation, and someone else is going to get it. that will then determine economic success in the future. we just won a bunch of nobel prizes this week and last. most of those prizes, as has been the case for some time now, are awarded to american researchers and, frankly, to researchers born in other countries who now work where? at our universities. how much longer is that going to go on if we continue the innovation deficit and disinvesting in research when other countries have seen that as their long-term goal? we need to fix this problem. we need to fix it quickly. stop the crisis management and get onto thinking about the long-term investment, th