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Senior high school students are brooding over the test papers for their Department Required Test, a university entrance exam for specific subjects. Inside the examination venue several university professors are making the rounds among the waiting parents who sit in the back fanning themselves.
"Hello. This is a brochure about our department, you might want to consider selecting our school…," they make their sales pitch. While some parents politely listen, others openly show their annoyance, making the cold-shouldered professors retreat quickly with an embarrassed look on their faces.
Lai Cheng-po, a business management assistant professor at Nanhua University in Jiayi County, regrets his decision of eight years ago to leave the insurance industry and devote himself to the apparently more worthwhile profession of teaching. When selling insurance he thought that academia would offer a more enjoyable work environment and that teaching Taiwan's next generation was a meaningful endeavor.
Lai did not expect to get his old job back in disguise: a few years into his teaching job he found himself touring senior high schools in central and southern Taiwan, trying to sell his university and handing out PR brochures just like an insurance agent.
Lai describes what encompasses such sales pitches: praising the excellence of one's school to the skies in front of uninterested, noisily chatting high-schoolers, humbly asking homeroom teachers to drop a few positive remarks about the university, and coping with under-the-table dealings practiced at some private senior high schools.
As schools at all levels fight for their survival in a tighter market, the hunt for students is on everywhere. Universities squander money on scholarships to senior high schools, hoping that the schools will reciprocate by helping them to recruit students. Senior high school teachers, for their part, teach junior high school students in cram courses to boost student recruitment at their own school. Junior high schools are already following suit by fishing for students at elementary schools.
"The axis of education has become slanted," observes Chen Pao-yuan, also an assistant professor at Nanhua University. "The situation is getting more and more dramatic as universities tie up with senior high schools, senior high schools tie up with junior high schools and junior high schools tie up with elementary schools."
Given that a further demographics-related drop in students is forecasted for the year 2016, middle- and lower-ranked universities are focusing all their efforts on student enrollment rather than on teaching and research, often turning teachers into sales personnel in the process.
Regardless of rank, faculty and administrators alike are forced to put up a brave front and ingratiate themselves with officials and teachers at senior high schools.
In mid-September Fo Guang University president Yang Chao-hsiang, a former education minister, went to Taipei to personally deliver stationery and other small gifts to St. Bonaventure Girls' Senior High School in Neihu District. Yang calls this a neighborly visit, but in fact this neighbor is located 55 kilometers away from the Fo Guang University campus in rural Yilan County.
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