Ministry of Education Objectives for 2026(January－December)

1. Expand the capacity and capabilities of public and quasi-public kindergartens; enhance childcare services during weekday after-school hours, winter and summer vacations, and for temporary needs; provide children’s education subsidies or childcare allowance; and gradually adjust the teacher-student ratio in kindergartens. Improve digital learning, and provide support for students in remote areas, disadvantaged students, and those with special educational needs. Deepen aesthetic education and literacy development for students, while improving teacher training programs.
2. Upgrade both hardware and software school facilities, including demolishing and rebuilding aging buildings in public secondary and elementary schools. Improve the condition of old washrooms on campus. Enhance food safety management to ensure consistent quality of school lunches. Strengthen the three-tier student counseling and support system by adding more counselors. Deepen gender equality education, and implement an anti-drug, anti-fraud, and anti-bullying campus environment.
3. Deepen and expand higher education initiatives, develop students’ key capabilities, and strengthen universities’ international influence. Promote Yushan (Jade Mountain) Scholars Program to recruit talented academics, and improve compensation and benefits for academic professionals. Establish research academies in key national fields and integrate resources to expand cross-school artificial intelligence programs. Enhance the technical and vocational education environment to boost international enrollment and improve career counseling services.
4. Steadily implement bilingual education policy and create an optimal bilingual environment. Enhance Taiwanese talents’ international communication capabilities and their connection with the global community. Create favorable conditions to encourage international firms to establish operations in Taiwan. Enhance the bilingual environment on campus to cultivate the bilingual communication skills of the younger generations. Promote Taiwan’s high-quality Mandarin Chinese language education for international learners, thereby expanding our nation’s soft power globally.
5. Formulate the White Paper on Youth Policy and establish a 10-billion TWD Overseas Youth Dream Fund to expand young people’s participation in public affairs. Develop new pathways for lifelong learning and build Taiwan as a learning society, while establishing model sites for lifelong learning that exemplify Taiwan’s net-zero transition. Cultivate talents needed by Indigenous communities and promote diversity and coexistence.
6. Exert the capability of the Ministry of Sports and strengthen athletes training and protect their rights. Support the sound development of individual sports associations and enhance national sports training centers. Host international sports events under the name of Taiwan, develop adaptive sports programs, promote sports equality, and encourage all Taiwanese to participate in sports. Coordinate the use of sports facilities and venues across the country to foster the diversified development of the sports industry.