英文摘要 |
The 12-Year Basic Education Reform of 2014 brought along the enactment of The Teacher Remuneration Act and the amendments for The Insurance for Civil Servant and Teacher Act. Part of the new clauses applied to private school teachers, thus increase their basic salary and pensions. After analyzing the final accounts of private high schools in 2012 to 2020 school year, and in-depth interviewing ten private high school teachers, this study generates the following conclusions: (1) Due to declining enrollment and stagnating fee policy, the ratio of teaching personnel expenditure to tuition, and to total revenue have increased over the nine years. However, the ratio of teaching personnel expenditure to total expenditures have remained static during the same time period. (2) Most schools can follow regulations on teacher contracting, insurance, annual promotion of basic salary, and pensions, but some schools would cut down duty allowance to make up the balance. (3) Each school has her own policy on teaching hours, annual leave, duty allowance, yearly bonus, performance bonus, fringe benefits and allowance, and the scope of austerity expends as enrollment declines. Among those payments, duty allowance, yearly bonus, and performance bonus are the most reduced. (4) Most schools have teachers’accountability system based on student recruitment, each teachers’performance shall decide his/her bonus or allowance. (5) Those schools with highly declining enrollment would cut down teacher allowance and bonus, thus cause substantial pay cut. (6) The uncertified teachers are the most suffered from poor working conditions. Based on the above findings, this study makes the following suggestions to policymakers: to re-examine the financial structure of private high schools holistically, to hold emolument workshops for private high school personnel administrators, and to improve the working conditions for those uncertified senior private high school teachers. |