1. Students:

(1) NCUE provides opportunities for disadvantaged students (such as indigenous students, students with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged students).

(a) NCUE ncourages its departments to actively provide quotas to increase the admission opportunities for disadvantaged students.

i. In recent years, NCUE has actively provided additional quota for indigenous people and students with disabilities to be admitted to NCUE through different channels.

ii. NCUE established its “Indigenous Peoples’ Special Class for Aging Health Promotion and Care Management”, which offered 35 admission openings for indigenous students.

iii. NCUE offers multiple entrance programs for students with disabilities, such as independent and screening-based admissions, to enhance their opportunities to study at our school.

iv. To increase the opportunities for economically disadvantaged students (including those from low-income households, middle-low-income households, and special circumstances backgrounds), and to uphold the principles of social justice, NCUE has implemented a "Priority Admission" mechanism since 2018. This mechanism involves lowering admission criteria to increase the admission chances for economically disadvantaged students. Additionally, starting from 2019, we have introduced our "The Soaring Eagles Admissions Group". Under this initiative, certain departments shall allocate a number of admission slots to each category, with reduced test score requirements and exemption from interviews, all aimed at enhancing the opportunities for economically disadvantaged students to enroll at NCUE.

v. In order to encourage departments to actively provide additional quotas for disadvantaged students, NCUE’s “Measures for the Establishment and Promotion of the Admission Strategy Committee” stipulates that the actual total registered number of additional quotas (including overseas students, students with disabilities, and indigenous students) of various programmes in a department in the current academic year will be multiplied by NTD$ 5,000 as additional subsidies expenses for the department.

Please refer to Annex 10.6.3A, “Measures for the Establishment and Promotion of the Admission Strategy Committee”.

(b) Reduce the burden for disadvantaged students—waive the registration fee as well as subsidise the transportation and accommodation expenses for ‘individual application’.

i. NCUE exempts economically disadvantaged students (low-income households and middle-to-low-income households) from the registration fee when they take our self-held admission examinations, such as the ‘Second-stage Screening Test for Individual Application for Bachelor’s Programmes’, ‘Transfer Examination for Bachelor’s Programmes’, ‘Reference Screening Test and Admission Examination for Master’s and Doctoral Programmes’, and ‘Separate Admission of Students with disabilities to Bachelor’s Programmes’.

Please refer to Annex 10.6.3B, Department Rules of Admission Guide for Individual Application for University Admission in 2023.

Please refer to Annex 10.6.3C, NCUE’s 2023 Admission Guide for Separate Admission of Students with Disabilities.

Please refer to Annex 10.6.3D, Transfer Admission Examination Guide for Bachelor’s Programmes in 2023.

Please refer to Annex 10.6.3E, Guide on Reference to Master’s and Doctoral Programmes in 2023.

Please refer to Annex 10.6.3F, Admission Guide for Master’s Programmes in 2023.

Please refer to Annex 10.6.3G, Admission Guide for Doctoral Programmes in 2023.

ii. During the second-stage screening test for ‘individual application’ and the ‘Admission Screening for 4-year Technological Undergraduate and 2-year Vocational Junior College Programmes’, the transportation and accommodation expenses of students will be subsidised according to their place of household registration, and the departments will give the subsidies to the qualified candidates on the day of the screening test.

(c) Implement projects such as the Higher Education Sprout Project and The Soaring Eagles Project to increase admission opportunities for disadvantaged students.

With the promotion of the Higher Education Sprout Project, NCUE has increased diversified admission opportunities for senior high school students year by year. This includes encouraging departments to actively provide quotas to increase admission opportunities for disadvantaged students, waiving registration fees, subsidising transportation and accommodation fees for “individual application”, and holding lectures in senior and vocational high schools (please refer to Appendix 10.6.3H).

NCUE continues to conduct the “Caring for Regional High Schools and Vocational High Schools” micro-course activities to attract more students who come from families in the lowest 20% income group in Taiwan to study at NCUE. Figure 1 is a snippet of our “Mentoring and Learning” activity, and Figure 2 features the implementation of Adaptive Teaching Micro-Course. Through these activities, NCUE aims to attract more students from families in the lowest 20% income bracket in Taiwan to enroll at NCUE. As of the end of 2023, 374 students from families in the lowest 20% income group are studying at NCUE, accounting for 5.2% of all students.

(d) Subsidize disadvantaged students to enter university, and simultaneously plan and improve the mechanism of schooling and study counselling to promote social class mobility.

In order to encourage economically disadvantaged students (children from low-income families, middle-to-low-income families, and families in special circumstances) to study hard and toimprove their chances of entering national universities, NCUE has planned a series of improving schooling, study, and counselling mechanisms that enable students to exhibit their personal potential in National Changhua University of Education, in the hope of achieving the goal of increasing the number of economically disadvantaged students admitted annually.

In 2023, the departments provided 190 admission seats for economically disadvantaged students (children from low-income families, middle-to-low-income families, and families in special circumstances). A total of 68 students were admitted.

In 2023, the Indigenous Students Program visited 12 key indigenous schools to conduct recruitment promotion activities. Approximately 200 people participated. The details of the promotional activities are shown in the table below and in Figures 3-8.

Please refer to Annex 10.6.3H, Admission Measures for Disadvantaged Students and Achievements in 2023.

(2) Providing exceptionally talented students with multiple admission approaches

NCUE is open to students with outstanding athletic performance. 12 students were admitted to NCUE’s Department of Sports through athletic performance screening, which offered 90 places in 2023.

2. Employee

Having enacted the National Changhua University of Education Commitment of Sustainability, NCUE spares no effort to take care of employees with disabilities. To ensure inclusion and equity, NCUE abides by the rules stipulated by the Employment Service Act, Gender Equity Education Act, and People with Disabilities Rights Protection Act, and ensures that no forms of discrimination or inequality due to race, belief, disability, and gender are allowed under the rules and regulations of the university, ensuring equal pay for faculty members. The number of employees with disabilities in NCUE conforms with the People with Disabilities Rights Protection Act. We continuously provide help in optimizing the work environment, and prioritize accommodating employees with disabilities so that they can have a safe and secure work environment.

(1) NCUE provides adequate employment channels for the recruitment of faculty and staff from underrepresented groups, in accordance with regulations.

(a) Pursuant to Article 38 of the People with Disabilities Rights Protection Act:

Any given government department (agency/organisation) of individual levels, public school, or public business agency/organisation/institution whose total number of employees is no less than 34 shall employ people with disabilities with the capability to work, and the number of employees with disabilities shall be no less than 3% of the total number of employees. In 2023, NCUE had 811 employees, among whom 29 had disabilities, and the proportion of employees with disabilities was 3.58%, which was higher than the stipulated standard. The statistics on the employment of staff with disabilities at NCUE are shown in Table 1.

(b) Pursuant to Article 4 of the Indigenous Peoples Employment Rights Protection Act:

Among the total number of the following personnel hired by each level of schools, there shall be 1 indigenous individual for every 100 workers: 1. Contract employee; 2. Stationed police; 3. Mechanic, driver, janitor, cleaner; 4. Fee administrator; 5. Non-technical workers not requiring the qualifications of civil servants. The total number of personnel listed in the preceding paragraph shall be one indigenous individual for every school at all levels with over 50 employees but less than 100 employees.

The total number of these five categories of staff employed by NCUE was 8 in 2023, with 2 stationed police, 3 mechanics, and 3 janitors. According to the above regulations, the employment of indigenous faculty or staff members was not required. However, in order to take care of disadvantaged groups, NCUE had employed 1 indigenous faculty member, which was higher than the stipulated standard. The statistics on the employment of aboriginal staff at NCUE are shown in Table 1.

Table 1. Statistics on the employment of staff with disabilities and aboriginal staff at NCUE in 2023

Please refer to Annex 10.6.3I, People with Disabilities Rights Protection Act.

Please refer to Annex 10.6.3J, Indigenous People Employment Rights Protection Act

Please refer to Annex 10.6.3K, National Changhua University of Education Commitment of Sustainability

(2) Supporting mechanism for employees with disabilities and indigenous employees:

Applying to implement the Job Accommodation for People with Disabilities plan on behalf of the staff, prioriry allocation of dormitory rooms to employees with disabilities, and accessible facilities in dormitories.

(a) On behalf of hearing-impaired and visually impaired faculty members, NCUE applied to the Changhua County Government and implemented the “Job Accommodation for People with Disabilities” plan. A total of NTD$142,648 was allocated to NCUE. The subsidized services and used amounts are as follows:

i. Transcription services: 180 hours in total, with NTD$500 /hour compensation subsidized, totaling NTD$90,000

ii. Assistance from helpers in the workplace: 248 hours in total, with NTD$176 /hour compensation subsidized, totaling NTD$43,648 .

iii. Transportation expenses: The amount is NTD$9,000 in total

Please refer to Appendix 10.6.3L - Application documents submitted to Changhua County Government concerning job accommodation.

(b) Prior allocation of dormitory rooms to employees with disabilities On the first floors of the Zhong and Xiao Buildings of the university’s dormitories (single room), suites with a bedroom and toilet with accessible bathroom facilities are available for qualified faculty members and staff to use.