To tackle the issue of students attending mediocre universities, we would offer international qualifications such as certain QCE/HSC courses, SAT prep for the US, British A levels, as well as additional courses to deepen understandings of the Taiwanese curriculum. This would enable students to go to the best universities in Taiwan and potentially in Australia or other international locations and thereby make themselves more marketable in the intensely competitive market for jobs.
We would offer this through 2 business structures.
1) a content library of all topics we teach, similar to Khan Academy, and
2) a classroom environment over zoom with a teacher and class mates as well as a chat function to collaborate and communicate with peers.
To reduce educational inequality the proposed business acts as dual platform- an archive of educational resources as well as a means for tutoring. If a student or school has limited access to certain subjects or content, this business offers the ability for students to study individually or as a class. If employed by schools to work in tandem with teachers, it increases the incentive to teach rurally when it decreases the burden. Schools can also reprioritise the deliverance of lessons, as certain teachings can be adapted with the business.
Ethical and Cultural Considerations
The proposed business model adequately considers ethical and cultural appropriateness to ensure multinational applicability. This can be seen in the nature of its wide spanning opportunities, for a student in one culture can choose to receive resources from their own or another. This adaptability respects the ability for certain cultures to prioritise the origin of their utilised resources, as well as permits the ability for cross- cultural teaching. Both scenarios can be conducted within the will of the user, thus the cultural appropriateness of their respective society. By tailoring a system to a variety of cultural stakeholders, with a model which can cross international markets, the individual needs of each student can be adapted to as well as providing a broader means of reducing educational inequality.