Pan Wen-chung

In this Chinese name, the family name is Pan.

Pan Wen-chung (Chinese: 潘文忠; pinyin: Pān Wénzhōng; Wade–Giles: Pʻan¹ Wên²-Chung¹; born 28 November 1962) is a Taiwanese educator and politician. He first served as Minister of Education from May 2016 to April 2018 and returned to the post in January 2019.

Pan Wen-chung
潘文忠
27th and 30th Minister of Education
In office 14 January 2019 – 20 May 2024
Premier	Su Tseng-chang Chen Chien-jen
Deputy	See list Fan Sun-lu Lio Mon-chi Lin Teng-chiao
Preceded by	Yao Leeh-ter (acting)
Succeeded by	Cheng Ying-yao
In office 20 May 2016 – 14 April 2018
Premier	Lin Chuan William Lai
Deputy	See list Chen Liang-gee Tsai Ching-hwa Lin Teng-chiao
Preceded by	Wu Se-hwa
Succeeded by	Yao Leeh-ter (acting)
Deputy Mayor of Taichung
In office 25 December 2014 – 19 May 2016
Mayor	Lin Chia-lung
Personal details
Born	(1962-11-28) 28 November 1962 (age 62) Zhuangwei, Yilan County, Taiwan
Political party	Independent
Education	National Taiwan Normal University (BA, MA, PhD)

Education

Pan obtained his teaching certificate from Taiwan Provincial Junior Teachers’ College in 1983. He then graduated from National Taiwan Normal University with a bachelor's degree in education in 1989, a master's degree in education in 1993, and earned his Ph.D. in education from the university in 2003.^[1] His master's thesis was titled, "A study on the relationship between organizational structure type and teacher morale in junior high schools".^[2] His doctoral dissertation was titled, "A study of the professional certification system for elementary and junior high school principals" (國民中小學校長專業證照制度之研究).^[3]

Ministry of Education

Pan was named Minister of Education in April 2016, and took office on 20 May.^[4] On 13 October 2016, Pan unveiled the Youth Employment Pilot Program at the Executive Yuan to help the low income high school graduates to college or careers in which those qualified will get a NT$5,000 monthly subsidy.^[5] He resigned from the education ministry in April 2018, over the controversy regarding the selection of Kuan Chung-ming as president of National Taiwan University.^[6][7] Pan was reappointed education minister in January 2019.^[8]