Schools shall establish cooperative education programs based on the following approaches:
1. Rotation: Schools and partner institutions shall rotate based on a two-class unit; with one class stays in School while the other class receives training at partner institution.
2. Step-by-step: The first-year and second-year students receive basic and professional education at schools, while the third-year students receive vocational skill training at partner institutions.
3. Internship: To meet the demand for different levels of professional curriculum, the schools shall arrange training opportunities at partner institutions during summer/winter breaks or at mid-semester, without interferences with the schools’ curriculum.
4. Other approaches approved by the central competent authority: Other approaches can be formulated by schools, and submit to the competent authority of the special municipality or the County（City）, who in turn will submit to the central competent authority for final approval.

To participate in the cooperative education, partner institutions shall meet the following requirements:
1. Legally established or registered.
2. Equipped with relevant vocational training capacity, instruction manpower, and qualified facilities.
3. Training venues meet the requirements of laws and regulations on labor safety and health.
4. With no malpractice listed in Paragraph 1 of Article 32, or Article 35 that excludes participations in the cooperative education.
5. No violation of labor laws and regulations over the past two years.
6. The number of labor contracts terminated over the past two years shall not exceed 10% of the total staff members based on Article 11 of the Labor Standards Act.
7. Not engaging in sending out its services on sites to their customers.
Concerning 3, 5, and 7 of Article 6, the required verification documents, their scopes, the confirmation process and other matters to be followed shall be formulated by the central competent authority jointly with the central labor administration competent authority.

To conduct the cooperative education, schools shall meet the following requirements:
1. The latest school evaluation results shall be level 4 or above.
2. Evaluation results of the cooperative education shall be level 4 or above over the past three years, and the latest year’s evaluation results shall be level 3 or above.
3. Every two cooperative education classes shall be assigned with five full-time teachers of that field.

To conduct the cooperative education, schools shall submit the following documents to the competent authority for approval:
1. Cooperative education program proposal
2. Standards of credit calculation and performance evaluation
3. Vocational skill training plan for student participants
4. Counseling plan for student participants
5. Contract draft between schools and partner Institutions
6. Training contract draft for student participants
7. Partner institutions’ evaluation report sheet
The counseling plan in Subparagraph 4 of Article 8 shall include life counseling and on site visits.

To examine the proposal mentioned in the previous Article, the competent authority shall organize a cooperative education examination panel consisted of 15 to 25 people; panel members shall be selected from scholars and experts, fair community representatives, industry representatives, labor union representatives, teachers’ organization representatives, teenagers’ group representatives, school representatives, parents’ group representatives, competent authority representatives and labor administration competent authority representatives; if necessary, an expert team can be organized to conduct on-site evaluation at partner institutions.
The forementioned panel shall include at least one scholar or expert with specialties in labor and employment, and the gender ratio for both sexes in the panel shall not fall below 1/3.
Regarding Paragraph 1, the composition and operation of the cooperative education examination panel and the expert team, the examination procedure, evaluation criteria and standards, results, and other matters to be followed shall be formulated by the central competent authority.
The central competent authority shall routinely review partner institutions’ industrial categories.

Cooperative education curriculum shall be implemented according to the central competent authority’s curriculum regulations.
Once student participants receive vocational skill training at partner institutions and are proved qualified in performance by schools, their training may be counted toward vocational skill training credits; those credits may not exceed one sixth of the required graduation credits. However, such credits can be extended up to 30 credits in special cases pending on the approval of the competent authority.
The benchmark, calculation method and other related regulations regarding the waiver of graduation credits through vocational training shall be formulated by the central competent authority.
Except for the vocational skill training credits in Paragraph 2 of this article, other cooperative education curriculum shall be implemented in Schools.

Schools shall complete the following matters prior to the starting of vocational skill training at partner institutions:
1. Provide student participants with basic or pre-training to equip them with background knowledge that involves the basic skills, occupational safety and health, work ethics, labor right and interests of the relevant vocational category.
2. Invite partner institutions to jointly hold orientations, to explain to student participants and their parents the training content, and the right and obligations of student participants during their training.
The minimum hours of basic or pre-training shall be declared by the central competent authority in accordance with the Cooperative Education processing procedures. With regard to the minimum hours of courses concerning labor rights and interests shall be regulated after consultations with the central labor administration competent authority.
The central competent authority shall consult the central labor administration competent authority on the compiling of labor rights and interests manual and provide such manual to the schools for their basic or pre-training. The content of the manual shall be examined and modified annually.
Schools that manage Cooperative Education for overseas Chinese students shall organize basic Chinese language courses in subparagraph 1of paragraph 1 concerning basic or pre-training.

Schools that engage in cooperative education may not conduct the following deeds:
1. Send student participants to partner institutions that are not approved by the competent authority for vocational skill training.
2. Recall student participants from partner institutions without any legitimate reason.
3. Send student participants to partner institutions for vocational
skill training during schools’ teaching instruction period.
4. Discriminate against student participants after they file a complaint or request for mediation based on this Act.

Schools shall assign teachers to visit partner institutions without prior notice at least once every two weeks, in order to understand how student participants receive vocational skill training and whether partner institutions enforce training according to cooperative education contracts and the training contracts of student participants, to insure student participants are counseled toward receiving good training.
Teachers shall report to schools immediately once they discover that partner institutions fail to operate based on vocational skill training plan or fail to abide by cooperative education contracts or the training contracts of student participants.
After receiving teachers’ report, schools shall request partner institutions to improve their practices immediately, and properly follow up and record the improvement in details and submit these reports to the competent authority for their reviews and evaluation.
Teachers assigned by schools in Paragraph 1 shall regularly attend seminars regarding labor human rights, labor rights and interests, and occupational safety and health, or take courses of continuing education.

The total of students participants, apprentices, trainees, interns and other people that belong to the trainee and interns category, as defined in the Labor Standards Act, that are recruited by partner institutions, may not exceed 1/4 of the total labor force of the institutions; for individual partner institution, the number of people in rotation for each period of time may not be less than two.
The total number of the recruited labor in preceding paragraph is calculated as 8 people when the actual members are equal or more than 6 but less than 8 people.
The calculation of the total number of the recruited labor in Paragraph 1 and 2 does not include foreigners hired according to Subparagraph 10 and 11 of Paragraph 1 of Article 46 of the Employment Services Act.

Schools and partner institutions shall not agree on any considerations such as paying rewards, payment, gifts, bonus, rebates or commissions to the other party in the name of any nominal transactions.