Coming soon to Taiwan

Bam! Last year one MIHS student received a Taiwan Scholarship. This year it’s four. That’s a success. On a more sour note, the circumstances under which some of the scholarship recipients were accepted have come under heavy criticism. Instead of trying to spell it out for you, I’ll just provide some links.

ROC awards six scholarships

Scholarship corruption?

More criticism

It is rather disappointing that this had to happen, though it wasn’t totally unexpected. Small island politics can manifest themselves in very obvious ways. There were other very deserving students, some from MIHS and some from others, who may or may not have been passed up by this internal politicking. It’s difficult to guess what could have/should have happened, so I’m not going to try. I just have to accept what happened and move on. After all, some of what happened is very promising. I’ll probably take the students who applied through me out for Chinese food. No forks will be allowed.

Henry was not accepted. He's currently serving his sentence.