ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses various strategies to indicate the government's attempts to respond to the consequences of a post-mass system of higher education (HE) in Taiwan. HE in Taiwan experienced a significant expansionary period beginning in the early 1990s. However, this trend began an abrupt reversal after 2010 with the population of domestic students seeking HE decreasing rapidly. Several policies were introduced in order to respond to this emergent post-mass system of HE. Although the HE system in Taiwan has begun to shrink, it is still fully situated in its global context in which HE in general continues to expand and competition among universities increases apace. Two main purposes of the government policy were impacted. One the one hand, sustainable investment in HE for quality remains a strong argument for improving national global competitiveness. On the other hand, increasing the number of overseas students seems to be a promising strategy to address the vacancies left by "missing domestic students".
