Legislator Huang Guoshu.

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[Reporter Yang Yuanting/Report from Taipei] The heads of many academic units under the Academia Sinica are still acting as agents. Among them, the director and deputy director of the Biodiversity Center have been acting as agents since October 1, 2020. The acting period has exceeded 2 years. Legislator Huang Guoshujin (23) questioned that the head of an academic unit of the Academia Sinica has acted longer than the director of the Sports Department. Selection is a bit lacking.

Huang Guoshu kicked it up during the questioning of the Legislative Yuan Education Council today. The heads and deputy heads of the Academia Sinica's Applied Science Center, Genome Research Center, Biodiversity Center, Economic Research Institute and other academic units are all agents. Among them, the director of the Biodiversity Research Center and The deputy director has been acting since October 1, 2020. As for the director and deputy director of the Applied Science Center, he has been acting since February 1 this year. The director and deputy director of the Genome Center has been acting since July 11 this year. The director and deputy director of the Economic Research Institute We have also acted since August 10 of this year.

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Huang Guoshu pointed out that the director and deputy director of the Biodiversity Center have acted for more than 2 years, which is longer than the director of the Sports Department of the Ministry of Education. The agency can only last for 2 years at most, but the agency time of the director and deputy director of the Center for Biodiversity far exceeds the time stipulated by the Ministry of Civil Service. Whether there is a risk of breaking the law or delaying the research affairs of the academic unit, as far as he knows, there is Scholars participate in the selection of the head and deputy heads.

Liao Junzhi responded that the vacancies of chief and deputy chiefs of these units were mainly due to the failure to find suitable candidates, and also said that the appointment of deputy chiefs and deputy chiefs would have no real impact.

Huang Guoshu heard the words and said that according to Liao Junzhi's statement, "It would be better if all the chiefs and deputy chiefs are acting as agents all the time!" He also pointed out that this is not a normal operating state of the unit, and further pointed out that according to the regulations of the Ministry of Civil Service, the agency is usually based on a The limit is one year, and can be extended once at most, but the acting period of the chief and deputy directors of the Center for Biodiversity has exceeded the upper limit of 2 years.

Liao Junzhi, Dean of Academia Sinica.

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