Department of Government Ethics

    The sixth Honesty Cup College Debate Contest of TCG had its grand opening at Soochow University on October 26th, 2012 and lasted for 3 days. Congregating in Taipei City for this three-day competition were finest debaters from National Taiwan University, National Chengchi University, National Tsing Hua University, Shih Hsin University, Fu Jen Catholic University, as well as other public and private colleges and universities. 24 teams from 17 colleges and universities in total competed for championship.

    For the past six consecutive years, in order to raise students’ awareness in corruption-free policies and system, the Department of Government Ethics of Taipei City has been organizing the Contest for public and private colleges and universities. This year, the Department, for the first time, collaborates with the Ministry of Education on this Contest. The proposition this year is “Establishing Anti-corruption Agencies in Public Educational Institutes Is Necessary”. Throughout the contest, students discuss the connection between campus integrity and clean politics, at the same time collect data, elaborate ideas and articulate discourse. Adopting Oxford-Oregon Type as the debate format, the idea of administrative transparency is expected to be instilled in participants’ mind while proving validity of the issues, and thus make headway into campus.

    In result, the first prize went to National Taiwan Normal University, followed by National Taiwan University, Soochow University, and National Tsing Hua University.Also, we selected four astounding debaters, including Bi Yingying from National Taiwan Normal University, Cai Chengyou from National Taiwan University, Xie Qingfeng from Soochow University, and Sun Minlun from National Tsing Hua University.While justifying for and against the proposition, speeches presented among opposite sides truly gave insights to the debatable issues.

    Representatives from Agency Against Corruption of the Ministry of Justice, Transparency International Chinese Taipei, and Soochow University were among the list of guests invited to the event to share the meanings and importance of a clean government and the civic responsibility to fight corruption with all participants.

    For more information, please visit: http://integrity.tp.edu.tw/act/cht/index.php?code=list&ids=1 (Chinese).