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Pan Wen-chung (; born 28 November 1962) is a Taiwanese educator and politician. He first served as Minister of Education from May 2016 to April 2018 and returned to the post in January 2019.


Education

Pan obtained his teaching certificate from Taiwan Provincial Junior Teachers’ College in 1983. He then obtained his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in education from
National Taiwan Normal University National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU; ), or ''Shīdà'' is an institution of higher education and normal school operating out of three campuses in Taipei, Taiwan. NTNU is the leading research institute in such disciplines as Education and Lin ...
in 1989, 1993 and 2003 respectively.


Ministry of Education

Pan was named Minister of Education in April 2016, and took office on 20 May. On 13 October 2016, Pan unveiled the ''Youth Employment Pilot Program'' at the
Executive Yuan The Executive Yuan () is the executive (government), executive branch of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Its leader is the Premier of the Republic of China, Premier, who is appointed by the President of the Republic of China ...
to help the low income high school graduates to college or careers in which those qualified will get a NT$5,000 monthly subsidy. He resigned from the education ministry in April 2018, over the controversy regarding the selection of
Kuan Chung-ming Kuan Chung-ming (; born 15 August 1956) is a Taiwanese politician and academic. He was the last minister of the Council for Economic Planning and Development from 2013 to 2014 and served as the first minister of the succeeding government agency, ...
as president of
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. Pan was reappointed education minister in January 2019.


References

Living people 1962 births Taiwanese Ministers of Education National Taiwan Normal University alumni Politicians of the Republic of China on Taiwan from Yilan County, Taiwan Deputy mayors of Taichung {{Taiwan-mayor-stub