R.O.C. government has carefully planned to nurture and train elites for studying abroad through M.O.E. sponsored study abroad scholarship (MSSAS) after their bachelor’s degrees since 1955. Because of MSSAS, there are many researchers, scholars, educators, and government officials benefited and become important figures in different areas of the society in the last 70 years. However, there is lacking of tracking with those MSSAS receivers and many of them are losing contact with the government. With MOE’s releasing partial data, this research is able to contact MSSAS receivers via email address to ask for filling out the survey and also for participating in the interviews and counseling meeting in the research.
This study aims to inquire from MSSAS receivers’ points of view regarding the effect of practice of the MSSAS system, the selection, cultivation, and location of those MSSAS receivers, and to provide suggestions for reforming the MSSAS system in the future. The research includes the following conclusions: 1. MSSAS system is overall successful; 2. MSSAS system needs a more intergrating consideration on selection, cultivation, and location of those MSSAS receivers; 3. In the process of selection, MSSAS needs to be both specific and multiple consideration. 4. In the process of cultivation, MSSAS needs to consider mentor’s service, to raise the scholarship and to extend the years of financial support from government; 5. In the process of locating MSSAS receivers, the goal is to match their education and occupation; 6. Instead of returing to the country, there should be positive strategies that motivate MSSAS receivers to serve the country. In the end, the research proposes some suggestions at governmental, MSSAS receivers’ network, and MSSAS receivers themselves.
