KCUE is going to export the university evaluation tool to Taiwan. According to KCUE announcement, Dr. Young Shik Kim, Secretary General of KCUE, visited Taiwan from June 19 to 21,2007 and introduced university evaluation system of Korea. The visit was made by the invitation of Taiwan Education Department.
Taiwan education department visited KCUE in 2005 and 2006 and learned the university evaluation method. Lee Hyun Chung, who was Secretary General at that time, was an evaluation consultant in Taiwan Education Department.
The evaluation guide in KCUE is said to be easier than American method because the questionnaire is structurized so that an objective evaluation is made possible.
While American evaluation organization lets each university describe most of the questionnaire by itself, KCUE asks concrete and detail questions in the evaluation sheet so that it prevents universities from giving arbitrary answers.
Therefore, evaluation sheets by KCUE are about 200 pages compared to 70-page-long American questionnaire.
KCUE started university evaluation in 1982, when it was established, and then developed it into university accreditation system through overall evaluation from 1994.
Hong Kong and China introduced university evaluation system in 1995. Japan benchmarked many parts of evaluation guide made by KCUE in the process of making university evaluation obligatory through the Institute of Degree Evaluation in 2002.
KCUE officials said that KCUE started university evaluation for the first time in Asia and got many calls from other Asian countries such as Thailand and Vietnam as well as Taiwan to teach them the university accreditation tool.
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