Article 8
Application for cooperation in
education shall meet the following requirements:
A correct purpose of running education;
A sound educational organization and a
professionally efficient managerial staff;
A qualified faculty;
A campus, library, teaching instruments
and equipment and living facilities that are up to the
requirements for running a school;
A
fund needed for starting the educational undertaking and a
steady source of fund.
Article 9
An applicant applying for running a cooperative
educational institution shall submit the following
documents:
A written application for
running cooperative education;
The
articles of association of the cooperative educational
institution;
A feasibility
report;
Comments of the professional
department in charge of the Chinese party to the cooperative
undertaking upon examination of the project in question;
A letter of intent or an agreement on
the cooperation signed by both
parties;
A notarized or authorized
credit certificate of the foreign
party.
Article 10
The norms for
the establishment of cooperative educational institutions
offering formal schooling shall pattern after the norms for
the establishment of Chinese educational institutions of the
same categories.
Article 11
An
application for a cooperative educational institution with
an independent program offering formal higher education
shall be first examined by the people's government of the
province, autonomous region, municipality or the department
in charge under the State Council in accordance with the
affiliation of the Chinese party to the cooperative project
and then submit to the educational administration of the
State Council for approval.
In the
event of applying for a cooperative educational institution
with a non- independent program offering formal higher
education, the Chinese party to the cooperation shall be an
institution of higher learning offering formal higher
education, and the application shall be examined and
approved by the people's government of the province,
autonomous region, municipality or the department in charge
under the State Council in accordance with the affiliation
of the Chinese party to the cooperative project and then
reported to the educational administration of the State
Council for the record.
Article 12
An application for a cooperative educational
institution with an independent program offering formal
secondary education shall be first examined by the
educational department in charge in the province, autonomous
region or municipality in accordance with the affiliation of
the Chinese party to the cooperative project and then
submitted to the people's government of the provincial level
or the department in charge under the State Council for
approval and reported to the educational administration of
the State Council for the
record.
Article 13
An application
for a cooperative educational institution offering various
types of informal education and training shall be examined
and approved by the educational department of the province,
autonomous region or municipality or the department in
charge under the State Council in accordance with the
affiliation of the Chinese party to the cooperative project
and reported to the educational department of the provincial
government or of the State Council for the
record.
An application for running a
cooperative kindergarten shall be approved by the
educational administration in the people's government of a
province, autonomous region or municipality.
Article 14
An application for
cooperative education shall be denied of approval if one of
the following occurs:
It violates the
Chinese law or decrees or regulations;
It is not in keeping with China's
strategic plan for educational development;
It is not appropriate for approval in
other respects.
Article 15
The
authorities in charge of the examination and approval shall
determine whether to approve the application for running a
cooperative educational institution or not within three
months upon receiving the application, unless it is
otherwise stipulated by other laws, decrees or regulations.
The applicant which is approved for running a cooperative
educational institution shall be issued a letter of
approval.
Article 16
Having
obtained a letter of approval for running a cooperative
educational institution as having met the qualifications for
establishing a school and starting enrollment, the applicant
for establishing a cooperative educational institution shall
register with an educational administrative department of
the provincial level and obtain a permit therefrom. A
cooperative educational institution with a cooperative
education permit may start formally enrolling students in
accordance with the state stipulations.
An independently established
cooperative educational institution shall have the status of
a legal person after official approval for registration and
having been granted a permit for running a school.
Article 17
An applicant applying
for official registration shall submit the documents listed
below:
An application education ; for
registration and a letter of approval for cooperative
An inventory of the school site,
documents on proprietary rights to the school property and
school facilities;
Documents confirming
fund contribution and fund from the relevant authorities;
Certificates of the qualifications of
the chairman of the council of trustees and president of the
school;
Lists of the leading body and
trustees of the school and the payroll of the teaching and
administrative staff;
The name, scale,
length of schooling, composition of departments and majors
and courses and the size of enrollment.
Article 18
An applicant applying
for establishing a cooperative school offering formal
education which has not been entirely qualified with
conditions for establishing a school for formal enrollment
shall be approved by the examining and approving authorities
to make preparations for the establishment of a cooperative
school and given a letter of approval to the
effect.
An applicant having been granted
approval for making preparations for establishing a
cooperative school shall, within two years from the date of
the approval, formally apply for establishing a cooperative
school and register with the relevant authorities after
official approval. In the event an applicant having failed
to apply for formal establishment of a cooperative school
and enrollment, the original authorities granting the
approval for making preparations for establishing a
cooperative school shall cancel the approval. Enrollment is
prohibited during the preparatory period.