National Taiwan Normal University

National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) tells its own history two ways. Its centennial branding traces a lineage back to June 1922 and the founding of Taihoku Higher School (臺北高等學校) under Japanese rule — a preparatory school for university admission, described by NTNU as the starting point of its identity. Separately, and more directly documented, the Taiwan Provincial Government established the Taiwan Provincial Teachers College (臺灣省立師範學院) on June 5, 1946, specifically to train secondary-school teachers. That college became Taiwan Provincial Normal University in 1955, and was elevated to national status as National Taiwan Normal University on July 1, 1967. Today NTNU has grown into a comprehensive university of ten colleges, while remaining Taiwan's flagship institution for teacher education and, through its Mandarin Training Center, one of the country's principal gateways for learning Chinese.

國立臺灣師範大學的校史有兩種說法。學校百年校慶的論述將淵源追溯至1922年6月創立的臺北高等學校（日治時期的大學預備學校）；而較明確有文獻可考的，是1946年6月5日台灣省政府成立的「臺灣省立師範學院」，專門培育中等學校師資。該校於1955年改制為臺灣省立師範大學，並於1967年7月1日升格為國立臺灣師範大學。如今臺師大已發展為擁有十個學院的綜合型大學，同時仍是台灣師資培育的旗艦學府，並透過國語教學中心成為外國人士學習華語的重要據點之一。