The legislature’s Education and Culture Committee passed a resolution on Wednesday banning retired educational officials previously in charge of supervising public institutions from teaching at private schools within two years of their retirement.
The committee passed the resolution to prevent retired high-ranking educational officials from receiving a salary from private schools while enjoying their monthly pension.
The nation imposes a “revolving door article” on public officials, limiting their employment options after they leave government posts to prevent conflict of interests.
Section 1 of Article 14 of the Civil Servants Work Act (公務員服務法) prohibits government officials from serving as board members, supervisors, managers or counselors at any profit-making organizations directly related to the officials’ job description within three years of the official leaving their government position.
However, Vice Minister of Education Lin Tsung-ming (林聰明) said the committee’s resolution would not be legally binding unless the Ministry of Civil Service amends relevant laws since private schools can decide who they want to recruit.
Lin told reporters that he feared education officials could be recruited by universities in China if the revolving door article also applied to those officials.
Meanwhile, the committee passed its preliminary review of the central government’s NT$168.2 billion (US$5.1 billion) education budget request for the next fiscal year, cutting it by NT$23 million and freezing NT$2.63 billion.
Of the NT$23 million cut, NT$13 million had been earmarked for the ministry’s much-criticized movement to build students’ character and promote “taste.”
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