The director of the National Education Academy has been replaced! Lin Cong resigned after two years in office and Liu Meihui of National Taiwan Normal University took over.

There are personnel changes for the director of the National Institute of Education! The current dean, Lin Congyi, will step down and will be replaced by Liu Meihui, a distinguished professor at the Department of Education and Institute of Curriculum and Teaching of the National Taiwan Normal University. A handover ceremony will be held at the Three Gorges Main Campus on the morning of November 2. The handover will be supervised by Liu Guowei, Parliamentary Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education.

Lin Congyi will take over as the dean of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Education on November 1, 2024, with a term of about 2 years. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Iowa in the United States. He has served as the president of Huafan University, the vice president of National Cheng Kung University, the dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of Taipei Medical University, and the director of the Teaching Development Center of National Chengchi University.

Lin has continued to promote education policy research, curriculum and teaching innovation during his tenure. In recent years, the Chinese Academy of Education has invested in research on the integration of generative AI into teaching, and developed school plans through research cooperation to promote curriculum practices such as social-emotional learning, inquiry practice and independent learning. The Ministry of Education affirmed that Lin Congyi led the team to promote core business and play the role of an educational think tank.

The new dean, Liu Meihui, holds a doctorate from the University of Minnesota in the United States. She has served as provost, dean of the Teacher Training School, director of the Bilingual Education Promotion Office and director of the General Education Center at National Taiwan Normal University. She has experience in academic research and educational administration.

Liu Meihui’s research expertise includes multicultural education, curriculum and teaching, international education and democratic citizenship education. In the future, she will lead the team to continue to deepen the study of curriculum training, textbook review and education policy research, and strengthen the role of a national education think tank.