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t-asia · Joined: 19 Jun 2008 Posts: 51 Location: Thailand

Hello

Advise- do Taiwanese immigration authorities require an undergraduate applicant to have majored in a subject before issuance of an ARC card? Bit of a grey area- my HND credit transfer and 18 months online studies total 300 credit points.

I chose a mix of OU courses rather than one major where I wait for my degree detail and result. I am limited in my options. Hopefully, there are undergraduates that have been issued an ARC card without a major in a specific area? Please clarify?

I concluded distance learning studies September 08 where I assume my transcript papers mid-Dec 08 (Matriculation May/Apr 09 ) in Arts and Humanities (assume this to be my major?) courses are sufficient to be issued an ARC card?

Open University- heard of it, more importantly, will Taiwanese consular services? For my part, this term ''majored in'' is foreign to me. Waiting on a reply from Taiwanese immigration. Can anyone advise on this issue in the meantime. Will help greatly?

Thank you,

t-asia English Native Speaker

stillnosheep · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2068 Location: eslcafe

Just put 'Humanities' or whatever area you obtained most credits in.

You are correct: 'majored in' is an Americanism. We would simply say 'studied' or 'studied as my main subject'.

markholmes · Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Wengehua

I thought a three year degree is 360 credits. It is here in Canada.

t-asia · Joined: 19 Jun 2008 Posts: 51 Location: Thailand

Thanks stillnosheep, however I remain unsure as to the value and status of my Open University Degree pending the official result in the bag- now being the time to plausibly consider coming to Taiwan on a sixty-day visitor visa.

I need specifics, I need the web address of the processing department or official government department that can answer my specific queries; as I panic to make sense of the comments to the query above.

Sure all can be appropriated, but where is it written as to the specific status of a degree studied to go teach in Taiwan, on paper and any allowances that can be made for, in what appears to me a gray/grey area.

It's probably me, but the ROC connected website is difficult to read as the font ruins my reading pleasure, thus makes no sense. Markholmes- openuniveristy.co.uk- 300 points without Honours, 360 to attain Honours status. Hope this helps? In Canada, how many points for a Degree with and without Honours.

Thank you

t-asia

markholmes · Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Wengehua

You know what, I am talking crap, sorry, it's a hectic time, I'm in the first semester for my B.Ed. elementary teacher program.

I have a degree from Middlesex University in London, which has 360 credits (and is an honours degree). I live in Vancouver now and here a full time semester gets you 15 credits (it's a totally different system, so says nothing about the work load, which I think is higher here).

Momentary confusion. I need a holiday. Apologies

773 · Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 213

If I understand you correctly, you have an HND and have taken extra courses, but have not yet obtained a Bachelors...is that correct?

If you do not have a Bachelors, the only way to get an ARC with an HND is with a TEFL certification (like the CELTA) along with it.

t-asia · Joined: 19 Jun 2008 Posts: 51 Location: Thailand

773,

Interesting information what you write, but where is it lawfully written? It sounds plausible that a TEFL cert. has value, but again, where is it written, 773?

Sure, there are tons of org's that offer <120 hour TEFL courses, T-asia's TEFL obtained after only 40 hours study. Where is it written that a 40 hour Cert. holds value, or not, 773?

773-- ''where I wait for my degree detail and result'', the OP's original. Still-- even stranger; as to the credibility of the OU, has no one heard of the OU?

t-asia

773 · Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 213

t-asia, I have no idea where this is lawfully written, but I do know that in my 6.5 years spent in Taiwan, if one has an HND and not a Bachelors, they need to also have a TEFL cert.

I did not comment on the value of having this or not, I am plainly stating what I have known to be the law in Taiwan for getting an ARC.

Your post was confusing. I am unclear as to whether you will have accumulated enough credits to technically have a Bachelors or not...in other words, will you have a Bachelors degree in your hand when you are applying for jobs, or will your HND be your highest qualification at that time? Whether or not you will need a TEFL cert depends on that.