Of the 31 staff in the International Service Department at the Government Information Office (GIO), no less than 45 percent have studied abroad, and as of June 1990 no less than 70 percent of Taiwan's 536,000 civil servants had had a university or college education. This compares with a figure of 17 percent for Taiwan's workforce as a whole.
在新聞局國際處卅一位職員中，具有留學經歷的高達百分之四十五。整體來看，截至七十九年上半年為止，台灣地區五十三萬六千名公務員中，教育程度在大專以上的，高達百分之七十；而全台灣總就業人口中，擁有大專學歷者不過百分之十七。