Mandarin education meet to be held in Taipei next monthBy Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporterThe Overseas Community Affairs Council is to hold the International Summit on Mandarin Education in Taiwan next month to help promote Taiwan’s Mandarin-language education sector. A Web page promotes the Overseas Community Affairs Council’s International Summit on Mandarin Education in Taiwan. The council is working with the American Institute in Taiwan to bolster cooperation in language education based on the US-Taiwan Education Initiative with Taiwan, which was signed in December 2020, the council said. The students are to complete the one-year Mandarin course in the eight-week program in Taiwan, it said. Another 15 university students from the US began an eight-week Mandarin course at NCKU under the Taiwan Intensive Summer Language Program on Monday last week, it said.