Taiwan to allow Int’l students to return to campus

Taiwan has decided to allow international students to come back to physical classes at various institutions across the nation. Taiwan tightened its border restrictions on May 19 after the country saw a spike in COVID-19 positive cases.

Taiwan has emerged as one of the major destinations to pursue medical education for Indian students. It has now decided to ease its COVID-19 restrictions, as the number of cases are rapidly falling, giving the authorities confidence to lower the alert level.

The recent announcement to allow international students came after the Ministry of Education Taiwan said on August 11 that it was planning to allow international students to come to Taiwan as the new semester is about to start in mid of September.

Around 13,000 international students without residence permits, along with recipients of the Huayu Scholarship, will be allowed to enter Taiwan, according to Peters Chen, Education Director, Education Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in India.

According to guidelines by Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), international students who are granted entry must present a negative COVID-19 PCR test result before boarding a plane, and receive both a deep-throat saliva test as well as a PCR test upon their arrival.

Newly-enrolled degree students and recipients of the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship can enter Taiwan soon. Peters Chen said that, from Monday, universities will inform students who already have got admission on how they can enter Taiwan and what types of measures they will be required to take. Basically, the 14-day quarantine and self-health management for another 7 days will be a must.

Although the cases continued to increase in some other countries, it is expected that there will be hundreds of Indian students coming to apply for the visa and go to Taiwan for their further studying. Students who are not going to Taiwan in September can start to apply for 2022 spring admission since many universities have been open for application now, he added.

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