Regulations Governing the Establishment, Alterations, and Cessation of Operations of Junior Colleges and Institutions of Higher Education and of Their Branch Campuses and Divisions including Skills-based Senior High School Divisions Article 7

Criteria for establishing a junior college are as follows:1. Junior college site:(1) The site shall have an area of at least four hectares available for development and use.But if the total number of formally enrolled students is three thousand or less, the following provisions apply:1. For 1,801 to 3,000 students: the area shall be at least three hectares.2. For 1,800 students or less: the area shall be at least two hectares.(2) A junior college of agriculture shall additionally have at least five hectares of land to use for practical agricultural training.2. Junior college buildings:(1) Buildings shall have sufficient teaching, practicum, and special-use classrooms and areas, buildings required for the junior college’s administration and student activities, and sports facilities.(2) When the setting up of a newly established junior college is approved, its buildings shall have a total completed floor area of at least 6,000 square meters and shall have a total completed floor area of at least 10,000 square meters prior to the start of the second academic year following approval of its registration. All buildings shall have obtained a use permit before their floor area is permitted to be included in calculations.(3) The total building floor area shall be calculated in accordance with the method set out in the provisions of the Standards for Student Admission Quotas and Resources at Institutions of Higher Education.3. Equipment and facilities:(1) Each junior college shall have sufficient teaching, auxiliary, and experimental (training) equipment and facilities addressing the practical requirements of its own special characteristics and all the various different courses it offers.(2) A junior college shall have a library, and it shall have sufficient basic books, information, specialized journals, and relevant equipment and facilities.4. Teaching staff:Across the entire junior college, the student-teacher ratio, day student-teacher ratio, and graduate student-teacher ratio, and the different ranks, qualifications, and method of calculating the number of full-time teaching staff at the level of assistant professor and above shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Standards for Student Admission Quotas and Resources at Institutions of Higher Education5. Funds for establishing a private junior college and its establishment fund: When an application is made to register a private junior college is made, the funds to establish it and its establishment fund shall be in compliance with the following provisions:(1) A junior college shall have an adequate establishment fund (including funding required for purchase or lease of land, building, and equipment and facilities) and funds required for annual recurrent expenses to maintain its basic operations, and it shall provide explicit evidence of the sources of funds for its establishment.(2) A junior college shall raise an adequate establishment fund of NTD$200 million and deposit this in a dedicated bank account.
中文原文 專科以上學校及其分校分部專科部技術型高級中等學校部設立變更停辦辦法第7條
專科學校設立基準如下:
一、校地:
(一)學校校地可開發使用面積至少應有四公頃。
但正式學籍之學生總人數三千人以下之學校,依下列規定辦理:1.一千八百零一至三千人:至少應有三公頃。
2.一千八百人以下:至少應有二公頃。
(二)農業類型應另有五公頃以上之土地,作為實習農場用地。
二、校舍:
(一)應有足夠之教學、實習及特別教室或場所,與學校行政、學生活動所需之校舍及運動場地。
(二)新設學校核准設立時,校舍建築應完成總樓地板面積達六千平方公尺以上,並於核准立案之第二學年開學前完成校舍建築總樓地板面積至少達一萬平方公尺。
校舍建築應取得使用執照,方得列入計算。
(三)學校校舍建築總樓地板面積,依專科以上學校總量發展規模與資源條件標準規定方式列計。
三、設備:
(一)應針對各類專科學校之特殊性質及各種課程之實際需要,備置足夠之教學、輔助及實驗(習)設備。
(二)應有圖書館,並備置足夠之基本圖書、資訊、專門期刊及相關設備。
四、師資:全校生師比值、日間學制生師比值、研究生生師比值、專任助理教授以上師資結構及師資質量、師資數之計算方式,依專科以上學校總量發展規模與資源條件標準規定辦理。
五、私立專科學校設校經費及基金:私立專科學校申請立案時,其設校經費及基金應符合下列規定:
(一)應有充足之設校經費(包括購地、租地、建築、設備等經費)及維持學校基本運作所需之每年經費,且應提供明確之設校財源證明。
(二)應籌足設校基金新臺幣二億元,存入銀行專戶。

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