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The appointment of teachers of all levels of school shall be handled in accordance with the principles of fairness, justness and openness. The procedures are as follows:
1. Teachers of the senior high schools and lower levels may be allocated in accordance with the decrees. Otherwise, the principals thereof may report the publicly selected qualified candidates to the Teachers Review Committee for the screening. The teachers shall be appointed after the consent of the Committee.
2. For the appointment of junior college teachers, the department directors shall report the candidates to the Teachers Review Committee for the screening after the departmental meetings and, after the consent of the Committee, the candidates shall be reported to the principals for the appointment.
3. For the appointment of teachers of each department and graduate school of universities and independent colleges, schools shall put want ads on the media or academic journals and the chairpersons of the departments or graduate schools shall propose the applicants to the Teachers Review Committees of the department, college and school for the ratification. After the consent of the Committees, the candidates shall be reported to the principals for the appointment.
The regulations concerning the establishment of Teachers Review Committee specified in the preceding paragraph shall be enacted by the Ministry of Education; however, those of the junior colleges and higher levels shall be prescribed in accordance with the regulations governing the school organization.

Junior high and elementary school principals shall be selected openly from the qualified candidates except those who hold the current positions in accordance with the decrees.The same shall be applied to high school teachers except the allocated ones.

The school staff shall be appointed by the principals from the qualified candidates and reported to the government agencies in charge of education administration for a later check. However, the appointment of the budgeting, accounting, and statistics staff and the human resources staff shall be handled in accordance with the respective related laws.

The professionals in social education institutions and researchers in academic research institutions shall be nominated by the respective chairperson and reported to the government agencies for the ratification and appointment.

School teachers shall apply for the screening of qualifications after the appointment in accordance with the following procedures:
1. The screening cases of the junior high and elementary school teachers shall be submitted to the schools they serve and later reported to the county (city) governments so as to forward to the education division of the provincial government for the screening.
2. The screening cases of the senior high school teachers shall be submitted to the schools they serve and later forwarded to the education division of the provincial government for the screening.
3. The screening cases of the public and private high school and elementary school teachers under the jurisdiction of the municipality shall be submitted to the schools they serve and later forwarded to the municipal education bureaus for the screening.
4. The screening cases of the high school and elementary school teachers subordinate to normal universities, normal colleges and education departments or colleges of universities and public high school teachers shall be submitted to the schools they serve and later forwarded to the provincial education division (city education bureaus) under whose jurisdiction the school belongs to for the screening.
5. The screening cases of the teachers of junior colleges and higher levels shall be submitted to the schools they serve and later transferred to the Ministry of Education for the screening. The regulations governing the screening of teacher qualifications and registration shall be enacted by the Ministry of Education.

The screening cases of the incumbent staff who have received the certificates of lecturers or assistant professors before the enforcement of the amended Act and have continued teaching without suspension shall be directly submitted for the screening in accordance with the former promotion regulations without the constraints of Article 29 of University Act. The same may apply to the professionals in social education institutions and researchers of the academic research institutions who have been appointed in accordance with the Act.