Ministry of Education sets aside NT$2bn for English
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By Wu Po-hsuan and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Ministry of Education has budgeted NT$2 billion (US$65.69 million) over the next two years to complete phase two of a program to meet the nation’s 2030 bilingual education policy, it said yesterday.
The Executive Yuan yesterday unveiled an NT$20 billion (US$719.4 million) digital education initiative that would purchase 61,000 tablets for elementary and junior-high students over the next four years. Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) signed off on the Ministry of Education program after chairing the weekly Cabinet meeting, Executive Yuan spokesman Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) told a news conference after the meeting. Lo quoted Su as telling the meeting that the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of remote learning and that children from disadvantaged families are underserved by...