ANTI-EDUCATION COMMERCIALIZATION GROUP STATES "DIPLOMA MILL" RANKING|反教育商品化 民團公布"學店大學"排行

As the pension reform goes on, public school teachers, military personnel, and public servants may no longer be the top career choices for many. This has prompted students and their parents to reconsider about what to study to get an edge in the future job market. On Jul 22, a two-day university fair was held to help high school students to choose their university. Outside the university fair, an anti-education commercialization group announced its "diploma mill" ranking, reminding high school students to make a smart choice. Holding banners and shouting slogans, student groups protested outside a university fair, warning high school students to choose their university wisely. ==HSIEH YI-HUNG member, anti-education commercialization group== In developed countries, the student- teacher ratio is 15.8. However, in Taiwan, it is mostly 20 or 30 something. These universities, and their presidents, should reflect first on whether they can achieve an international standard of student-teacher ratio, before calling on the government to let them raise the tuition. The anti-education commercialization union rated 75 public and private universities in Taiwan and made a "diploma mill" list. Ranking factors included negative factors such as "high student-teacher ratio", "low dorm availability" and "cut in classes". Among the top ten in the list, half were private universities, and the other half were public universities. Shih Hsin University, Tamkang University and National Quemoy University made the top three. Shih Hsin University, ranked first in the list, said that its student-teacher ratio did follow government regulations. ==WU YUNG-KAN President, Shih Hsin University== We just finished the second round of our university's department evaluation last year. Shih Hsin University has 19 departments, 3 institutes and 4 colleges. All of them, inclusive of our programs, all conformed to the student-teacher ratio regulation. ==HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT== Besides how many education resources a student can get, I think competitiveness is also an important point in choosing a university. ==HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT== What I am concerned about the most is the courses offered. I don't think that it is a good idea for some universities to cut their classes. I believe that those who want to receive higher education all bear hope to learn things well. When high school students were asked about whether the ranking list will affect their university choices, most of them said they will take it into consideration. TRANSLATED BY ARIEL HSIEH 大學指考，成績公布之後，很多學生開始思考，究竟要選擇，什麼樣的學校就讀。今天的「大學博覽會」，在會場外，反教育商品化聯盟，就特別公布了「學店經營大學排行」，要提醒新鮮人，慎選學校，才不會繳了學費，受教權益還受損。 學生團體，在大學博覽會的會場外頭舉牌、喊口號抗議，要提醒即將進大學的新鮮人，小心填志願，才不會碰上學店。 ==反教育商品化聯盟成員 謝毅弘== 國際上 主要(OECD)國家的 生師比值水準 明明就是15.8 結果 台灣大多數的學校 都是20幾 30幾 這些學校 這些校長 想要學費鬆綁 想要招生自由化之前 請先看看自己 在生師比值上面 能不能跟得上國際腳步 再來談 反教盟以各大學的"高生師比值"、"學生宿舍不足"、"刪減開課時數"等現象，做為指標，對全台灣75所公、私立大學評比，在綜合排名上，前10名，公、私立學校各半，世新、淡江和金門大學位居前三名。 至於被點為第一名的世新大學，校方澄清，生師比都有符合規定。 ==世新大學校長 吳永乾== 我們去年才完成 第二輪的系所評鑑 我們19個系 3個所 4個學院 所有的 包括學程在內 生師比都符合規定 ==高中生 陳同學== （關心)就是每個學生 分配到的教育資源會比較多 那另外 可能就是(考量) 除了這些 就是學校的競爭力吧 ==高中生 潘同學== 重點還是課程吧 有沒有真正學到東西 然後 像這種刪掉(開課時數)就不太好 就因為 想唸這種高等教育 就是希望學到好的東西 實際詢問高中學生，會用什麼標準來選擇學校，有人看科系，也有人會關心生師比值，但也普遍反應，未來在選擇學校的時候，會將這樣的調查數據列入考量。 記者 曹晏郡 沈志明 台北報導