Would teaching 3 year olds in Taiwan be legal for foreigners or not?
If you had the right kind of license to teach kindergarten, were legally registered as working at that kindergarten and were not teaching English, yes it would be perfectly legal. If you are caught without the right paperwork, you can be fined up to a maximum of NT$30,000, but it is an administrative violation only, not a criminal one so you won’t be sent to jail and it won’t go on your criminal record. The bigger issue is how you will be legally employed by the kindergarten. A kindergarten will not be able to give you a work permit, and most will try to get you a work permit from a separately registered cram school. If you are found to be working at a different company to the one on your work permit you could be deported. The only ‘safe’ way to work at a kindergarten illegally is to do so as a Taiwanese national, or a foreigner on an ARC that gives open work rights like an APRC, or marriage ARC.
See article 35 of The Statute for Preschool Educators:
Persons for whom any of the following statements is true shall be subject to a fine of not less than 6,000 New Taiwan Dollars and not more than 30,000 New Taiwan Dollars, and may be fined consecutively per violation:
- Those that violate Paragraph 2 of Article 26 by engaging in educare services without educare certificates or credentials.
- Those that violate Paragraph 3 of Article 26 by providing or lending educare certificates or credentials of preschool educators to others for use.
https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?pcode=H0070071
I wouldn’t knowingly break the law if I were you.
What if they can provide an ARC registered at their school? Does that make it legit?
Is Wilson educational institution a kindergarten ?
You may think it’s the same school because the address is the same building, but what kindergartens usually do to make things seem more legit is have a kindergarten on the first floor, then a cram school on the second floor. They’ll get your work permit/ARC through the cram school on the second floor, then have you work in the kindergarten on the first floor. When someone comes for an inspection they will have you run up to the second floor. There is no way they can get you a work permit for the actual kindergarten unless something much more illegal than I have ever seen is going on.
Doesn’t sound like a kindergarten, but that’s something you’ll have to ask them.
it has the words 幼兒園 in its Chinese name
Then it is a kindergarten.
I shall avoid, then.