With the rapid expansion of higher education and universities turning themselves into research institutions, already scarce educational resources are becoming scarcer still. Many scholars now worry that as a consequence higher education in Taiwan is becoming mediocre.
高等教育快速擴充，每所大學又都要朝「研究型」目標邁進，使得原已稀釋的教育資源益形短絀，不少學者擔憂國內的高等教育會因此走向「平庸化」。