Microsoft Qualified
Educational User Definition (APAC, GCR)
The following are eligible to acquire
Microsoft Academic Edition (AE) products in the programs indicated
and are defined as qualified educational users:
QUALIFIED
EDUCATIONAL USERS
ELIGIBLE
PROGRAMS:
A)
Educational
Institutions
Defined as:
1.
an
educational institution or establishment,
being a public or private school, elementary,
primary, intermediate, secondary or high school,
extraordinary school for the disabled, vocational
school, job training establishment, correspondence
school, junior college, college of education,
university, scientific or technical institute,
polytechnic, academy or religious school which
meets all of the following criteria:
i
Offers courses of study that lead to
a certification that is recognized as
part of a country’s mainstream
educational progression. (Examples of
such certifications include: International
Baccalaureate; School Certificate, Associate
Diploma, Diploma; Bachelor Degree; Masters
Degree; Doctorate); and
ii
Is accredited by the Ministry/Department
of Education or appropriate recognized
education accreditation agency within
the country. In the absence of direct
accreditation, there must be accreditation
by proxy (i.e. the certification offered
by the school or institution must be
acceptable for credit or placement in
a traditionally accredited educational
institution locally or overseas); and
iii
Substantially all of the institution’s
student enrolments (>90%) must be
in educational courses leading to an
accredited certification recognized
under subparagraph (i) above, with only
incidental enrollments in non-accredited
programs.
2.
an
early childhood centre meeting all of the
following criteria: (i) is an early childhood
program incorporated for the purpose of providing
educational services to children between two
and five years of age and which serves minimum
of ten such children; (ii) is lawfully established,
authorized, created, licensed, chartered,
registered and/or accredited by the Ministry/Department
of Education or appropriate recognized accreditation
agency within the country; and (iii) has been
in operation for at least one year.
AE Full
Packaged Product
Academic Open
Academic Select
Campus Agreement
(Higher Ed Only)
School Agreement
(Elementary or Middle School or Preschool Level Only)
B)
Administrative
Offices or Boards of Education of Educational Institutions
Defined as (a) central
government, provincial level, district level and
local administrative organs or authorities in charge
of the public Educational Institutions as defined
above in Section A.; or (b) the administrative organs
established and operated to administer the private
Educational Institutions defined in Section A above.
AE Full
Packaged Product
Academic Open
Academic Select
Campus Agreement
(Higher Ed Only)
School Agreement
(Elementary or Middle School or Preschool Level Only y)
C)
Full and Part
Time Faculty and Staff
Defined as all full
and part time faculty and staff of Educational Institutions
defined in Section A above.
AE Full
Packaged Product
Only
Academic Student Select
D)
Students
Full and Part Time
Enrolled Students of an Educational Institution
as defined in section A (i) and Full Time Enrolled
Students of an Education Institution as defined
in section A (ii).
AE Full
Packaged Product
Only
Academic Student Select
E)
Public Libraries
Must meet all of the
following criteria: (i) provide general library
services without charge to all residents of a given
community, district or region; (ii) supported by
public or private funds; (iii) make its basic collections
and basic services available to the population of
its legal service area without charges to individual
users, but may impose charges on users outside its
legal service area; and (iv) may or may not provide
products and services, beyond its basic services,
to the public at large with or without individual
charges.
AE Full
Packaged Product
Academic Open
School Agreement
F)
Public Museums
Must meet all the
following criteria: (i) are a public or private
agency or institution organized on a permanent basis
for essentially education or aesthetic purposes;
(ii) utilize a professional staff; and (iii) own
or utilize tangible objects, care for them and exhibit
them to the public on a regular basis.
AE Full
Packaged Product
Academic Open
School Agreement
G)
Home-School
Program
Defined as a home-schooling
program which provides primary education to a student
or students aged eighteen (18) or under and which
is able to provide written proof that it either
(i) belongs to a nationally-recognized home-schooling
organization, or (ii) is expressly recognized by
a local school district as an acceptable alternative
to an accredited or state-recognized/approved educational
institution.
AE Full
Packaged Product
Special note regarding Hospitals,
Healthcare Systems and Research Laboratories:
Hospitals, Healthcare Systems and Research Laboratories are NOT eligible
to acquire AE product licenses unless they are wholly owned and operated
by a qualified Educational Institution as defined above in Sections
A and B. "Wholly owned and operated" means that the Educational
Institution is the sole owner of said hospital, healthcare system
or research laboratory and the only entity exercising control over
the said institution's day-to-day operations. Additional information
on determining if an entity is wholly owned and operated by an Educational
Institution can be found at: www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=Eligible.
Note that hospitals, healthcare systems, and research laboratories
are NOT eligible to purchase School Agreement and are not eligible
to be included as part of an Educational Institution’s School
Agreement even if they are wholly owned and operated by the Educational
Institution
