"Over the past few years the Ministry of Education has accommodated the trend toward university autonomy, giving individual institutions more flexibility and space," Chen says, "but it has discovered that it hasn't reaped big rewards." He sees the problem as being rooted in the fact that universities are organized around departments. Within any given department, instructors are typically cut from the same cloth.
「這幾年教育部配合大學自主趨勢，給予學校很大的彈性空間，但發現效果不大，」陳德華指出，問題的癥結在於，大學的結構以系所為主，同一系所內，老師的同質性很高，互相感染牽制下，幾乎玩不出新把戲。