Local governments shall establish public preschools, non-profit preschools, and community and tribal cooperative educare service centers widely in indigenous peoples’ regions to provide opportunities for indigenous children to access educational services.
Local governments shall regularly conduct surveys on the resources and requirements for the education of indigenous children in non-indigenous regions and provide appropriate education services.
If local governments providing non-profit preschools, or community or tribal cooperative educare service centers require the use of state-owned land or buildings, the state-owned property management authority may make such land and/or buildings available to be rented. The standard rental for the annual rent shall be calculated based on the statutory land tax and house tax payable at that time for the land and property.

Indigenous children shall be given preference when places are being allocated for children to attend public preschools, non-profit preschools, community and tribal cooperative educare service centers.
When circumstances are deemed to require it, the central competent education authority may provide subsidies for the tuition fees for indigenous children to attend public or private preschools, non-profit preschools, and community or tribal cooperative educare service centers. The regulations governing the provision of such subsidies shall be prescribed by the central competent education authority.
To ensure that indigenous children have opportunities to learn the language, history, and culture of their own indigenous people, and to bring into play each tribe’s desire and capacity to be actively involved, local governments shall provide advice and/or subsidies to tribes, legal entities, or groups to run community and tribal cooperative educare services.
Local governments that handle the advice and/or subsidy matters referred to in the preceding paragraph shall encourage educare services being implemented using the local indigenous language or languages. The central competent indigenous peoples’ affairs authority and the central competent education authority may separately provide subsidies depending on actual need.
Each competent municipal, county, and city social welfare authority shall encourage, guide, and commission the private sector to provide childcare services for indigenous children under two years old or do so itself. The central competent health welfare authority may provide assistance in the light of actual need.

When deemed necessary, governments at all levels may establish indigenous schools and/or indigenous classes at any level to improve indigenous students’ attendance at educational institutions and to safeguard their culture.
Matters pertaining to the establishment of the indigenous schools referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be prescribed in separate legislation.

Schools at senior secondary level and below may provide accommodation for indigenous students, managed by the schools’ guidance and counseling personnel. The associated accommodation and meal expenses shall be designated by the central competent education authority as a fully subsidized item in its budget allocations.

Schools at senior secondary level and below shall proactively tap into the particular potential of indigenous students and guide their appropriate growth and development, in accordance with their natural interests and aptitude.
The central competent education authority and the central competent indigenous peoples’ affairs authority may separately designate a budget allocation for discretionary subsidies for the expenses required for the guidance referred to in the preceding paragraph.

When a school at senior secondary level or below has indigenous students enrolled the school shall provide ethnic education for those students.
The funding required for schools to provide the ethnic education referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be given a designated budget allocation for subsidies by the central competent indigenous peoples’ affairs authority.

Local governments shall set up indigenous education resource centers, essentially task-organizing in nature, to handle research and promotion of courses, teaching materials, and teaching methods for indigenous education and to assist the schools under their jurisdiction to develop ethnic education curriculum plans and evaluation methods suitable for the local indigenous peoples, and deal with other indigenous education matters.
The funding required for the indigenous education resource centers referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be separately listed by the central competent education authority and by the central competent indigenous peoples’ affairs authority as a budget item for discretionary subsidies.

In order to develop indigenous education, the competent education authorities at all levels may designate public schools at senior secondary level and below under its jurisdiction, or schools that have applied to do so, to provide school-based experimental education, applying, mutatis mutandis, the provisions of the Enforcement Rules for the Act for School-based Experimental Education.
In order to promote the education referred to in the preceding paragraph, tertiary colleges, universities, and senior secondary schools may implement a single-track educational system after obtaining approval from the competent education authority.

In order to develop indigenous education, the competent education authorities may designate public schools at senior secondary level and below under its jurisdiction, or schools that have applied to do so, to provide experimental education in some classes.
The regulations governing the experimental education in some classes referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be prescribed by the central competent education authority.

In principle, indigenous education shall be organized by the government; but when necessary, the government may also commission the indigenous peoples, tribes, traditional organizations and/or non-profit organizations, legal persons, or groups to organize indigenous education in order to ensure indigenous students’ rights to learn.
The provisions of the Act Governing the Commissioning of the Operation of Public Schools at Senior High School Level or Below to the Private Sector for Experimental Education shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the commissioning referred to in the preceding paragraph.

Educational institutions at or above senior secondary level shall ensure that indigenous students have opportunities to enroll and study there and when necessary may provide above-quota places as a measure to ensure this. Government Scholarships for Overseas Studies shall also reserve a number of scholarships for indigenous students to ensure that outstanding indigenous people have opportunities to nurture and develop their skills and potential. The regulations governing these matters shall be prescribed by the central competent education authority.
The central competent education authority shall consult with the central competent indigenous peoples’ affairs authority to determine the range of disciplines in which students must be studying to receive one of the Government Scholarships for Overseas Studies reserved for indigenous students referred to in the preceding paragraph.

The central competent education authority and the central competent indigenous peoples’ affairs authority shall encourage tertiary colleges and universities to establish colleges, institutes, departments, divisions, degree programs, and/or special programs with some indigenous focus and may designate a budget allocation for discretionary subsidies.
The standards governing the establishment of the colleges, institutes, departments, divisions, degree programs, and special programs with some indigenous focus referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be prescribed by the central competent education authority.
The central competent indigenous peoples’ affairs authority shall conduct an annual survey of the fields in which there is a demand for outstanding indigenous students to undertake higher education. The central competent education authority shall encourage tertiary colleges and universities to increase the proportion of places for indigenous students or set up special programs for them in accordance with the results of the survey.

In order to establish a cultural support system for indigenous students studying and living on tertiary campuses, and to promote campus environments that are user-friendly for ethnic groups, the central competent education authority shall encourage tertiary colleges and universities in which the indigenous student population reaches a specific number or proportion to set up an indigenous student resource center and designate personnel specifically responsible to provide personal and academic counseling to indigenous students. The number or proportion shall be announced by the central competent education authority in conjunction with the central competent indigenous peoples’ affairs authority.
The central competent education authority and the central competent indigenous peoples’ affairs authority may separately designate a budget allocation for discretionary subsidies for the required funds referred to in the preceding paragraph, depending on the need.

Indigenous students attending senior secondary schools shall have their study grants subsidized, and indigenous students attending a junior college or higher level educational institution shall have their tuition and miscellaneous fees reduced or waived. The regulations governing such subsidies, reductions and waivers, and other related matters shall be prescribed by each competent education authority concerned.
Each competent education authority concerned shall provide awards and financial aids for indigenous students for their education and adopt appropriate preferential measures to assist indigenous students to pursue formal studies.
Each tertiary college and university shall give preference to assisting impoverished indigenous students when allocating students financial aid for their studies appropriated from its tuition and miscellaneous fees income.