Category: Taiwan
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Vanisha Singh, NCP Scholar 2022 Last year, I graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (Software) and Diploma in Professional Engineering Practice, before beginning work as a graduate at my current workplace, Commonwealth Bank. Despite completing my New Colombo Plan (NCP) Scholarship program last year, I still firmly believe that embarking on the program was…
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I’m currently undergoing a Bachelor of Science Bachelor of International Studies at UTS, majoring in Physics and Chinese. I came to Taiwan in order to immerse myself in a Mandarin-speaking environment and improve my Chinese, also hoping to experience some of the local Science faculty while I was at it. Because I was the only…
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What are the facilities like at your host university? NTU is a really beautiful and interesting university. The facilities are as you’d expect from a large university as this. It has the largest library collection in Taiwan, a number of museums and galleries, computer labs, and so on. On arrival you are assigned a buddy…
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你好! That’s how you write hello in Chinese (pronounced “ni hao”). My name is Angie and I’m currently studying at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. Don’t be alarmed by the word “normal” in the name – it just means that they offer education as a course, not that other universities are abnormal! I’ve been…
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My first day in Taiwan was dreadful, and yet it was one of the best days of my life. Hop off a 24 hour travel trip, totally dazed and confused with people pushing and running to immigration. People screaming in Mandarin and Indonesian, and cutting in line. Once through, I had to try and find…
