| Legislative： |
1. Promulgated by Order of OCAC No.09530025201 dated February 22, 2006.
2. Amended by Order of OCAC No.09530254952 dated August 7, 2006.
3. The amended Direction 7, 9, and Appendix of Direction 7 were promulgated
by Order of OCAC No. 09830047891 dated February 20, 2009.
4. The amended Direction 9, and Appendix were promulgated by Order of OCAC
No. 1010202227 dated August 7, 2012.
5. Amended by Order of OCAC No.10702026331 dated September 4, 2018
(revised directions take into force from 4th, September 2018).
6. The amended Direction 7, 9, and Appendix of Direction 8 were promulgated
by Order of OCAC No. 10802034721 dated December 23, 2019. |
| Content： |
1.These directions are drafted by the Overseas Community Affairs
Council (hereunder abbreviated to“the OCAC”) contacting for
the purpose of executing with Subparagraphs 1-2, Direction 4,
in the “Directions for Contacting and Assisting with Overseas
Compatriots Schools. The term “overseas compatriot schools”
used in this direction refers to overseas compatriots which, in
accordance with the laws of the country in which they reside,
set up schools or language classes overseas that adopt language
instruction from Taiwan.
2.The OCAC supplies teaching materials in accordance with the
following principles:
(1)In principle, the materials provided will be textbooks approved
by the Ministry of Education, OCAC publications or other textbooks
approved by the OCAC as meeting the needs of ROC’s overseas
Chinese language teaching policy.
(2)The OCAC will provide textbooks to applicant overseas compatriot
schools based on the principle that each student should receive
one set of Chinese language textbooks per semester. However, the
OCAC will also provide textbooks needed by overseas compatriot
school teachers for teaching purposes and transfer students as
deemed necessary.
3.The overseas compatriot schools’applications for textbooks will
be processed in accordance with the following directions:
(1)Applications should be made six months before the start of the
academic year and limited to one time. However, when overseas
compatriot schools have special needs, if approved by the OCAC,
applications can be made each semester.
(2)Applications should detail the names and volumes of textbooks
as well as the number required.
(3)Fill in the “Overseas Compatriot Schools Information Form”
(as shown in appendix 1) and “Overseas Compatriot Schools
Textbook Requirement Form” (as shown in appendix 2), to be sent
to the OCAC through the overseas representative office of the ROC
or Culture Center of Taipei Economic and Cultural office (hereunder
abbreviated to“The Culture Center”).
4.The overseas representative office of the ROC or the Culture
Center should conduct an initial assessment of all textbook
requests by overseas compatriot schools in their locations,
filling in the“Textbook Application Detailed Summary Form”
(as shown in appendix 3) and the“Overseas Compatriot Schools
Mailing List” (as shown in appendix 4) to be submitted to with
the application to the OCAC.
5.After the application for textbooks by overseas compatriot schools
are approved, when the materials are received the“Packing List and
Receipt Slip” must be signed and posted to the OCAC directly or sent
through the overseas representative office of the ROC or the Culture
Center.
6.When awarding budget subsidies to overseas compatriot schools,
the OCAC, will review each application based on content and subsidy
category. Consideration will be given to the following areas as
well as the situation at budget subsidy application schools in past
years and local price levels:
(1)Application content help to promote overseas compatriot education.
(2)School size.
(3)Current school resources and difficulty of access to resources.
(4)Number of people involved in activities and types of activities.
(5)Number of hours spent teaching Chinese language at the school
weekly.
(6)Planned use of funding being applied for.
(7)Other school related matters.
The scope of the aforementioned budget subsidies is as follows:
(1)Constructing or renovating school buildings.
(2)Upgrading textbooks, tools and related equipment.
(3)Organizing educational and cultural activities.
(4)Other school related matters.
7. Applications by overseas compatriot schools for budget subsidies
will be processed in accordance with the following directions:
(1)In principle all funding items detailed in Paragraph 2 of Direction
6 should be applied for 30 days before required.
(2)Fill in the “Overseas Compatriot Schools Information Form” (as
shown in appendix 1) and the “Overseas Compatriot Schools Budget
Subsidy Application Form” (as shown in appendix 5) to be sent to
the OCAC through the overseas representative office of the ROC or
the Culture Center. When the same case applies for a grant to more
than two agencies, the content of all expenditure and the items and
amount applied to each agency for should be stated.
(3)Subsidy applied to the OCAC for USD1,000 (EUR830, JPY100,000, AUD1,
300 or NTD30,000) and over, in addition to the documentation listed
in (2), in accordance with the application items, the following
documentation should be provided:
a.Repair or construction of school buildings: technical drawings and
quotation should be attached.
b.Supplementing teaching materials: quotation should be attached.
c.Buying teaching related equipment: products and specifications
should be listed and quotation attached.
d.Holding cultural and educational activity: activity plan should be
attached.
e.Other instructional-related matters: relevant explanatory materials
should be attached.
(4)Applications should be filled in using Traditional Chinese. If the
information provided is in a foreign language an explanation must
be provided in Chinese.
(5)The financial amounts detailed in budget subsidy applications should
be calculated in USD, JPY, EUR, AUD or NTD. If the legal currency
of a country is none of the above, then prices should be listed in
US dollars.
(6)Based on the size of the funding applications for the restoration
or construction of school buildings, or the progress of restoration
or building work, the OCAC will make a number of disbursements.
8.The overseas representative office of the ROC or the Culture Center
should conduct an initial assessment of all budget subsidy
applications by overseas compatriot schools in their locations to
be submitted with the application to the OCAC. If two or more schools
submit an application at the same time the“Overseas Compatriot
Schools Budget Subsidy Application Evaluation Form” (as shown in
appendix 6) should be filled out.
9. Following the approval of the overseas compatriot school’s application
for the budget subsidy, the funds should be executed in accordance with
the approved contents of the application and, within one month after
the completion of the activity, school building repair or construction,
or completion of the purchase or renewal of teaching materials or
teaching related equipment, the group should submit the following
documents to the OCAC for disbursement verification. However, when the
day after is less than 30 days before the last day of the accounting
year (December 31), write off should be handled before December 31.
(1)The OCAC’s List of Income and Expenditure for the “Provision of
Public Funds Subsidy to Groups or Individuals” (as shown in appendix 7)
must be signed by the owner, principal or authorized person of the
overseas compatriot school.
(2)Results Report Form (as shown in appendix 8).
(3)Original invoice receipts indicating the spending of subsidy funding.
(4)When funding has been provided for the restoration or construction of
school buildings, photographs should be provided showing the site before
and after work has been completed.
(5)When funding has been provided for teaching related equipment,
photographs should be provided of the apparatus with the words
“Sponsored by the Overseas Community Affairs Council, R.O.C. (Taiwan)”
clearly displayed.
(6)When funding has been provided for educational and cultural activities,
photographs or clippings should be provided of the activities.
(7)If the same case receives a grant from more than two agencies, the
actual amount received from each agency should be listed. If the grant
received involves procurement matters, the regulations of the
Government Procurement Act and related regulations should be complied
with.
(8)The balance of funding to be repaid is calculated in the currency the
funding was provided in and processed as follows:
a.For programs in which revenue earned exceeds total expenditure of the
budget subsidy, the surplus is calculated based on the originally
approved subsidy and repaid.
b.For programs in which revenue earned was less than total expenditure
of the budget subsidy, where actual expenditure is more than 30
percent above expected expenditure and OCAC funding exceeds USD5,000
(EUR3,800, JPY490,000, AUD4,800 or NTD150,000), the amount of the
subsidy will be recalculated based on the originally approved subsidy
ratio (the ratio of approved subsidy as a proportion of originally
estimated expenditure) and the surplus calculated accordingly.
10.If the application by overseas compatriot schools for the provision
of textbooks or subsidy funding are found to contain false or
inflated figures, or funding are not used or spent in accordance
with the use detailed in the application, the applicant will not
only be asked to repay that part of the funding, OCAC will also
depending on the seriousness of the infraction suspend provision
of materials and funding for a period of 1-5 years.
11.Overseas compatriot educational groups that recognize ROC’s
overseas compatriot educational policy and adopt related Chinese
language teaching instruction should conduct those programs in
accordance with these revised directions.
12.Issues not covered by these revised directions will be dealt with
in accordance with the Guidelines on Central Government Agencies
Funding (Donating to) Private Groups or Individuals. |