| Summary: | 碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 社會科學院國家發展與兩岸關係碩士在職專班 === 92 === Since Taiwan authorities lifted the ban in 1987 on visitation of relatives in China, intensive interaction crossing the Taiwan Straits, drastic increase of Taiwanese businessmen landing on the mainland China, frequent culture and education exchanges, and more students from Taiwan taking undergraduates in China to become a fashion, plus the settling down in Taiwan by the mainlanders and the reinvestments by local Taiwanese businessmen in China help urge the demand of crossing-strait diploma accreditation, and the issue has been centering around the accreditation related strategies developed in Taiwan also underlines the purpose of this paper.
The subject matter of this paper relates to the unpredictable and deferred strategies of accreditation of diploma conferred in China. In 1997, Ministry of Education immediately started to develop the accreditation program and published the “Procedure for Examination and Accreditation of Diploma Conferred in Mainland China”, “Guidelines to the Examination of High Education Institutes & Diploma Conferred by Institutes in Mainland China” and a list of 73 high education institutes in the Mainland China approved for accreditation after the Ministry of Education published “Provisions of Relations between People from Taiwan and Mainland China” on September 18, 1992. With the sufficient legal basis and bylaws, the strategies should be put in action as taken for granted. However, on considering all the affecting factors and compromised fractional powers, the Procedure has been left aside soonest following its publication and is still on ice today after several office terms of the Minister of Education due to the mounting tension between both regimes crossing the Straits.
Unpredictable and deferred implementation of the accreditation strategies is analyzed in terms of its internal and external decision-making environments for in-depth exploration into those hidden reasons and the core of the discussion of the internal and external environments in this paper are further grouped into the national aspect and the social aspect. Two decision-making factors, respectively the development of high education and the national security involved in the accreditation strategies on the national aspect are examined in details while three factors including the future development of private institutes, the objection from the local herbal medicine industry, and the employment market in Taiwan on the social aspect are individually analyzed. For the part of the external environment of accreditation strategies, the focus is put on the political interaction crossing the Straits. According to the findings of this study, the deliberate inhibition on the cross-strait exchanges by the decision-making authorities in the government of the internal environment that are profoundly affected by the confrontation between both regimes crossing the Straits is the capital reason telling such unpredictability and deferral. Objection from interest parties in Taiwan society is the least possible to be attributable to the caprice and procrastination of putting the accreditation in action since those parties lack in a consistent standing and the power to influence the decision-making.
As summarized, firstly, opinions from the civil organizations fail to influence the decision made by the government since any strategy involving the cross-strait relations is essentially falling within the scope that the government acts on its own. Secondly, the diploma accreditation policy is at its best one loop of the cross-strait strategies as a whole. Whether the diploma accreditation policy could be on the right track to follow through solely depends on the quality of the general cross-strait relation. That leaves the feasible option now to criticize and review the existing strategies on the cross-strait relation to see if they actually meet the public opinion and national needs. Proper disengagement of the diploma accreditation from the political confrontation will be likely to avoid the repeated volatility in the decision-making process of acting out the accreditation of diploma conferred by academic institutes in mainland China.
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