Taipei, May 9 (CNA) India has asked Taiwan for 10,000 Mandarin teachers who could travel to the South Asian country to teach the language, Education Minister Wu Ching-ji said Monday.
India has recently decided to allow its high schools to offer classes in second languages, including Chinese, and has expressed the hope that Taiwan could help it find teachers of the language.
Wu said the Ministry of Education has established an ad hoc group to study the issue and work on plans to recruit and train Mandarin teachers and compile teaching materials.At the same time, India will send 2,000 teachers to Taiwan over the next five years to study for master's or Ph.D. degrees
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http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201105090028This is good news!, given that there are a lot of European language-trained teachers in India, but not many skilled in Chinese.
I see a rather interesting message in this decision by the Indian government. The GOI has apparently chosen to not ask the PRC for Chinese teachers..its even more telling given the fact that the the PRC's "Confucius institute" sends Chinese teachers around the world for free, for any nation that asks for them. The Confucius institute is, in the view of many, is a thinly veiled propaganda arm of the PRC and im certain this fact played a major part in India Choosing Taiwan over the PRC, even if it means they will have to pay for teachers they would have gotten for free from the PRC. The Choice is quite interesting..but not surprising (given China's not so secret alliance with India's western neighbor) ..and Taiwan's immediate follow-up seems to underscore the recent burgeoning relationships between India and Many SoutEast/East Asians nations that border the PRC.
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