Human Resource Management

Talent Recruitment Process and Resource Management

The University’s hiring system adheres to the principles of impartiality, transparency, and fairness. It adopts a “dual-track hiring system” that separates faculty and staff. Faculty appointments are reviewed by three levels of faculty affairs councils; staff is hired in accordance with the law.

1.In order to effectively use the number of faculty and link the departmental development, a teacher staffing meeting is held every semester to hire full-time and part-time teachers; each department conducts public recruitment according to its future development, teacher structure and curriculum planning, and the field of expertise of the teachers, appropriate talents are hired after deliberation and approval by the three-level faculty review committee of the department (graduate program), college, and university, to strengthen the quality of teaching and research personnel, and to meet the needs of school development and curriculum diversity.

2.In response to the trend of diversified development of the school and to enhance the effective utilization of manpower, a manpower review team has been set up to carry out manpower evaluation and other related matters. Taking into account the business attributes of each unit, the most suitable professionals are selected through “two-stage" selection process of written tests and interviews.

Manpower information for the past three years

* Headcount statistics are based on values as of December 31 of each year.

* Full-time faculty includes professors, associate professors, assistant professors, and lecturers of specialized skills and projects; staff includes civil servants, rare scientific and technological personnel, military instructors, resident guards, and technicians.

Gender and district statistics of full-time faculty and staff in the past three years

* Headcount statistics are based on values as of December 31 of each year.

In order to implement human resources management, statistics on new recruits and departures in 2024, and gender distribution of full-time teachers (including the contracted ones with projects and expertise) for the purpose of implementing the Government's mainstream gender policy. Most of the new recruits were to replace those who were retired or leaving; most of the departed staff were retired, or had other jobs, family reasons, career planning, and expiration of contract; in terms of their job titles, the majority of was employed by the university, and most of them were leaving due to career planning.

Gender and district statistics of new faculty & staff in the past three years

Gender and District Statistics of Former Faculty and Staff in the Past Three Years

Number of retirees in bracket

The largest number of teachers are professors, with the number of males exceeding the number of females, followed by associate professors, with the number of females exceeding the number of males, and most of the female teachers are associate professors or above.

 Full-time faculty (incl. expertise & project) gender statistics

There were 90 part-time teachers in the General Education Center in 2023 and 89 part-time teachers in 2024. The selection and appointment system were based on the school’s teacher appointment methods to formulate “General Education Center Teacher Appointment Review Points” and follow the school’s regulations. The employment process is carried out in order to appoint teachers with academic expertise. Part-time teachers of equivalent grades based on their degree or have obtained the same level certificate from the Ministry of Education are exempted from the external review of their works. Otherwise, the recruitment procedures are the same as that of full-time teachers.

The indoor cleaning of school buildings, campus security, and water and electricity maintenance are all entrusted to contractors, of which 17 indoor cleaning, 10 campus security, and 7 water and electricity maintenance personnel are employed in full for the whole year.

Financial Performance

1.NUK is a national university, and its main sources of income are teaching and research grants, tuition and fees, and self-financing income such as income from cooperative education. All income, expenditures, and utilization of funds are in accordance with “Regulations on the Establishment of Institutional Funds of National Universities," "Budgeting Act," "Accounting Act," and "Principles of Internal Audit and Disposal," and other relevant regulations.

2.In conjunction with the school's development plan and the consideration of overall financial resources, the University prudently prepares budgets and strengthens budget execution and control in order to maximize financial effectiveness and enhance the efficiency of resource utilization, and also actively strengthens the implementation of measures to raise revenue and reduce expenditures to increase self-financing income and reduce various expenditures.

3.Self-financing revenue grows from 2022 to 2024, with the proportion of annual self-financing revenue increasing year by year, and the results of operating income and expenditure for the past three years, the final accounts of which are all in real surplus.

4.After the annual financial statements are compiled by the Office of the Comptroller, they are submitted to the Ministry of Education for review and posted on the website of the Office of the Comptroller, and the related financial information contained in the Sustainability Report is consistent with the information in the financial statements.

Deficiency of Income and Expenditure and Realizable Surplus 2022-2024

Unit: $'000