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RADM Superintendent : Wang Jhao-Jyu |
| The Chinese nationalities have always
had a long ocean culture. You can find the remains of ocean
activities from ancient times. It has gone through many developments
and innovations throughout each century, and it had finally
reached a peak during the Ming dynasty. In the 3rd year of Emperor
Yungle in Ming Dynasty(1405), Jheng He had led the navy’s enormous
fleet sailing on the south east Asia waters with technology
more superior than Europe and with a majestic appearance. He
had also led the fleet's travels between the South China Sea
and Indian Ocean 7 times. During these travels, he had even
reached the East African coastline. During his lifetime, he
had visited more than 30 countries, and his magnificent voyage
was done 100 years before Christopher Columbus set out to sea
with his Spanish fleet. Also, his voyage was done 80 years prior
to the traveler V, da Gama, who led the Spanish fleet in discovering
The Cape of Good Hope and the passage to the Indian Ocean. What
he had achieved was never been reached by anyone else in history,
and he had created an evolution from experiences with his adventures,
courage of facing the unknown, and the spirit of conquering
nature. This should cause us to make in-dept thoughts and keep
in mind why we are unable to maintain our superioty on the sea
and how have our own people destroyed the powerful navy we had
once owned. |
| Our academy was established in Shanghai
over 60 years ago since 1946 after World War II. We have successfully
carried on the responsibilities on education, and we have also
produced the good fruits out of our students. We have truly
raised the first class talented people for protecting the rights
of our seas and frontiers, and also strengthened our defenses
to construct a first class navy. We have contributed a splendid
result in academic studies and combat training. We have also
won praises and affirmatives world-wide. The result is gained
not only from the work of past principles, faculties and students
in the academy, but it is also the result of their sacrifices.
However, we are living in the 21st century, which is a time
where the center of economy has shifted from the Atlantic to
the Pacific countries. As our overall economical power is increase,
our strategical position is changed also. Further, the economical
prosperity and the national security in the future will be closely
related to the “Thalassocracy.” Thus, the Pacific era is guided
by the development of Thalassocracy to become the new age of
Thalassocracy. It also means that the entire people will be
heading towards the new century of the ocean. Therefore, in
order to protect the safety of our country and effectively control
the Integration strength of the ocean as well as keeping superior
navy forces, we must build up the navy and increase overall
strength to become the best shield for maintaining Thalassocracy,
which is the path we should head towards in mutual acknowledgement. |
| However, as we have known, besides
the meaning of controling the ocean, Thalassocracy also includes
the usage of ocean, which is an integration of oceanic industry,
ocean transportation, ocean trade, the hardware construction
of ocean technologies and ocean policies, ocean management,
sea laws and related software development to combine with the
military for becoming a united power. Although we are breeding
the talented people who are able to control the ocean, we also
facing for the challenges in this new century on the subject
of satisfying the pulsation and needs in the society from our
educational studies. It is a very important issue because there
are many colleges and universities in our society. It's also
important to figure out how to promote superior competition
abilities and how the chain of command will affect our forces
after when we switch to implementing the mercenary system. This
should be fully planned and different plans with foresightedness,
diverseness and sustainable development should be developed
for providing for rainy days. It is more important for the planning
of sustainable development, which includes the developmental
goals, personnel training, and assets of utilization. That is
why there are many century old companies and schools in U.S
or Europe. Although the time and environment is different, from
history, Jheng He’s ocean trading business somehow didn’t adhere
to this principle, resulting in a sad end, and should be always
kept in mind and used as a reference in the future. The past
year, because the faculties, students, officers in all levels,
cadre, and colleagues have united together and worked as hard
as they can to create an honorable record and good name. Now
it is a new school year, as we raise our eyes and watch the
development of our nation, the direction of the expansion of
our navy, and the changing of our environment, we will write
the “97–106 R.O.C Naval academy School affairs Development Planning
document,” which will become the guidance for the development
of our school affairs. The following shows the main points of
the plan: |
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| 1. Advance military officers’ full-range
education, promotes the professional skill education for the
noncommissioned officers Our faculties are all dedicated in
their teachings, our equipment is new and up-to-date, and we
have a well-equiped living facilities that will help us to cultivate
good quality professional military and noncommissioned officers.
The main point of developing and educating the future officers
is set on the promotion of the students’ core values, the completion
of professional skills, sharpening the intelligence of leaders,
training for a stronger body, Navy loyalty and patriotic military
discipline, and the deepening of an anchored spirit. Moreover,
the main points of the education of the officers lie on the
cultivation of professional skills and the advancing of leadership
intelligence, so we can provide facilitation to the students
in obtaining the certificates that are related to their work.
Then, at the same time, we are upgrading the officers’ education,
so they are able to be competent and happy in their work. We
are hoping to turn them into the backbone of the navy. |
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| 2.Promote the quality and quantity
of character education, setting a good primary quality for the
officers For many years, the students’ character education has
been the main point of focus. Currently we have installed the
“character education implementation plan.” It integrates the
resources and people from the student corps, general education
center, and the office of student affairs in deepening the students’
character education as a team. It will be done through class
discussions, seminars given by professional speakers, home visits
(cultivation project), essays, academic research meetings (“character
education and military professional ethic”) so as to create
related atmospheres in the school (such as the printing of “school
touring manuals”), and use school voluntary service to replace
punishment, and diversified recessive education. We will continue
to improve our methods in order to increase the outcome of promoting
character education. |
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| 3.Build up a strong body, and strengthen
the students’ will in facing dangers and resistance The military
is holding an important responsibility in protecting the people,
and therefore building a strong body has become a soldier’s
basic duty. Because a military officer is a role model for the
soldiers, therefore all the training plans in the school are
focusing in active training for the students’ bodies. Each month
there will be a physical examination, and the students who have
passed the test will help the failing students to reach the
standard. Through the help and caring from the fellow classmates,
the students will be able to increase their body strength. We
require all of the students to pass the goal before the end
of grade 2 in order to prepare for the difficult physical training
lying ahead. |
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| 4.Improve the schools’ overall education
quality based on the Ministry of Education’s evaluation on departments,
graduate schools and schools' affairs In order to maintain the
education quality in the higher education, the Higher Education
Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan is commissioned
by the Ministry of education to take charge of the evaluating
of the colleges in a period of 5 years. Military and police
academies are also included on the list of evaluation. In order
for our school to absorb the experiences from other schools,
we have sent people to observe the preparation and experiences
for the learning evaluation observation at the National Taiwan
Ocean University, Tamkang University, and Tunghai University
in December 2007. Then, we have actively been preparing self
evaluations and department and graduate school evaluations,
and this year we will establish the “evaluation case specializing
office” on the first floor of the library with task force methods.
It will be mainly responsible for the job of preparation for
integrating the school’s units for the evaluation. Then, after
the department and graduate school evaluations are ended, we
are able to make changes to improve our teaching, studies, services,
counseling and administration based on the result of the evaluations. |
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| 5.Active in promoting engineering accreditation,
promotion department’s international status In order to follow
the trend of higher education developments worldwide, the Institute
of Engineering Education in Taiwan (IEET) has represented our
government to become the formal Signatory in the Washington
Accord during the 8th Biennial Meeting of the Washington Accord
signatories in June 20, 2007. The diplomas from the schools
who are being accredited by the IEET will also be recognized
by the member countries in the Washington accord. Therefore,
our school has sent the people from the oceanography department
to participate in the “Authentication of Engineering and Technology
Education ” hosted by the Institute of Engineering Education
Taiwan. Then each year we will promote the engineering accreditation
from other departments, so our education quality can be connected
with the world in order to upgrade our international standard. |
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| 6.Lead the teachers studies of professions
to the navy related field, to provide professional support for
our navy Each faculty from each department has specific research
specialties which have provided some degree of contribution
in their territory. If we can combine the professors’ direction
of study to the field of navy, then we will be able to provide
professional opinions to the technology, management, system
and reformation in our navy, which can become an intelligence
bank for us. Each department has planned for their research
directions based on their property and relationship with the
navy profession: Department of Marine Science (develop Oceanic
acoustics and anti-submarine detection investigation project),
Department of Marine Mechanical Engineering (develops power
for the ships), Department of Electrical Engineering (develop
radar and electric magnetic detection investigation system),
Department of Applied Science (constructs navy application science
database), Department of Information Management (develops command
& control chain), Department of Humanities (studies on people
related subject in the navy), Department of Sociology (studies
on military sociology related issues in the navy.) If we are
able to obtain support from superior units, then we will be
able to share our professional research results to the units
in the navy. |
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7.Reinforce the exchange project between the ships with our
school to combine the needs of our school with the fleet Since
2006, fleet 124、151 and 192 have been promoting exchanges between
the ships and our school, and the faculties from each department
will travel with the ships. They will interview the ship officers
and the graduate students about their thoughts in the service,
and then the faculty will provide written reports after they
return to school. The report will become a reference for our
school’s reformation and teacher’s advancement. Up to today
each professor has boarded at least one ship. Then, besides
continuing the second ships-school exchanges in June, we have
been promoting the combination of ship-school exchanges with
the departments evaluations, so the contents of the interviews
will be able to benefit the department's evaluation reports
based on the items and topics in the evaluations. |
| This year I wish to make a new start.
I hope we are able to gather the more advanced experiences and
wisdom in the future education journey in our school. I hope
we will be more active in the scientific education and academic
studies, and that we can continue to innovate and grow to make
our school become the foundation of breeding new leaders for
the navy. Through seeing the world with new vision and with
wider prospects, we can complete the vision for our future.
The 7 main points that show the future plan for our school are
shown above. They are all long-term goals, and they cannot be
accomplished in a short period of time. We hope the colleagues
in our schools will be holding onto each of our positions and
set your heart on it, and you will be working based on the students’
learning needs. I hope we will be able to use the 7 guidelines
to improve the teaching, studies, counseling, academic affairs
and administration in our school to create a new bright era. |
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