In order to enhance the academic performance in Taiwan and to retain or recruit outstanding talents, the Ministry of Education announced the grantees of “Performance-based Salary Subsidy Project”; those grantees are all from universities without “Top Universities Grant” or grant from “Plan to Encourage Teaching Excellence in Universities”. 32 universities submitted 249 applicants this year. After the intensive evaluation from committees, 45 faculties will be granted 900,000 NTD for three years, and 14 faculties will be subsidized 1,500,000 NTD for three years.

In this project, each university can recommend 10 applicants at most, and the Ministry of Education invited experts and scholars to examine each school’s proposal based on following indexes, “connection between performance and development strategy of university,” “international competitiveness of future accountability” and “matching resources from university.” Moreover, Ministry of Education increase grant for young talents; 29 young talents are subsidized this year.

These subsidized faculties specialize in diverse fields, including social sciences, humanities, engineering and so on. Meanwhile, universities which received “Top Universities Grant” or grant from “Plan to Encourage Teaching Excellence in Universities” can reserve 10% subsidy to implement performance-based project within their universities. In order to implement all projects mentioned above, Taiwan’s government infuses additional budget reaching 2.6 billion NTD every year. In 2012, there’re 9,043 receivers who are benefited by performance-based salary projects mentioned. By those projects, universities are authorized to raise top faculties’ salary to a great scale and to recruit excellent talents.