This Act is enacted to overhaul the cooperative educational system, to protect student participants’ right, and to enhance the quality of vocational education.

The competent authority in this Act refers to: the Ministry of Education for the central government; governments of special municipality for the special municipality; County（City）governments for the County（City）.
Matters in this Act that fall within the scope of each purposive authority shall be governed by referring to the legal purpose of respective purposive authority.

Special terms used in this Act are defined as follows:
1. Cooperative Education: a system that aims to develop students’ vocational skills through cooperation between schools and partner institutions. ‘Schools’ henceforth refer to vocational schools, senior high schools with vocational or special programs and special education schools.
2. Student Participants: students who currently enroll in schools and participate in the cooperative education program, undergo vocational training in institutions that partner with schools in implementing vocational education in a fixed period of time and receive a certain amount of living allowance during that period.
3. Partner institutions: business that sign Cooperative Education contracts with schools and provide vocational skill training to student participants.
4. Cooperative Education contracts: contracts that are signed
between schools and their partner institutions, schools will arrange their student participants to partner institutions for vocational skill training during a fixed period of time based on this contract.
5. Training contracts of student participants: contracts that are signed between student participants and partner institutions, participant students will undergo vocational skill training and instruction at partner institutions in a fixed period of time, and receive a certain amount of living allowance based on this contract.

The central competent authority shall conduct investigations on matters concerning the protection of participant students’ rights set out in this Act together with the labor administration competent authority once every year; and the report shall be made public.
The investigations may be delegated to academic groups or professional organizations when necessary.
The results of the investigations shall be taken into account by competent authorities of all levels when formulating policies for the cooperative education, and when selecting industrial categories of partner institutions.