After the competent authority approves schools’ establishment of the cooperative education, schools shall sign cooperative education contracts with partner institutions, and submit the contracts to the competent authority for further references; the contracts shall include the following terms and components:
1. Name of the cooperative education program
2. Budget and agenda of the cooperative education program
3. The vocational skill training plan for student participants
4. The skill, life and career counseling to student participants provided by the partner institutions
5. The establishment and operation of cooperative education coordination committee
6. The number of students and the period of time assigned by schools for training at partner institutions
7. Standards of credit calculation and performance evaluation
8. Origin of incidents and procedures for schools to recall student participants
9. Partner institutions shall accept the procedure and approach as requested by schools and visiting teachers for their improvement.
10. Appropriate arrangement of accommodations, transportation, living allowance and its adjustment, payment method, and calculation standards.
Regarding Subparagraph 3 in the previous Paragraph, vocational skill training plan of student participants shall include training courses, content, approaches, periods, daily schedule, break time, and legal holidays.

Based on Paragraph 1 of the previous Article on the content of cooperative education contracts, partner institutions shall sign the training contracts of student participants in written forms, and submit the contracts to the competent authority for further references; the contracts shall include the following terms:
1. The vocational skill training plan of student participants
2. Labor insurance and group insurance
3. The issuing of training certificates
4. Origin of incidents and procedures of contract termination
5. Arrangement of accommodations, transportation, living allowance and its adjustment, payment method, and calculation standards.
6. Handling of appeals and mediation that are related to the right and interests of student participants
Schools shall assist its student participants in signing their training contracts with partner institutions.
If student participants are minor, the signing of training contract shall be granted with permission from his/her guardians.
Regarding the format and content of student participants’ training contracts in Paragraph 1, the central competent authority shall formulate a contract template along with terms that shall and shall not be recorded.

Partner institutions shall not engage in the following behaviors:
1. Require student participants to pay any training expenses.
2. Require student participants to pay deposit.
3. Formulate regulations of accommodations, transportation, living allowance and its adjustment, payment method, and standards of calculation that are not in accordance with Subparagraph 10 of Paragraph 1 of Article 16.
4. Deprive student participants of their right in requesting damage compensation, or restrict the amount of damage compensation.
5. Give extra hours of training or promote products to student participants.
6. Require student participants to pay penalty for breach of contracts when they terminate contracts earlier than specified.
7. Deduct the living allowance of student participants when they violate working regulations.
8. Restrict the employment freedom of student participants after the termination of contracts.
9. Other relevant behaviors that deprive student participants of their right and interests.
The contract shall be void if any of the aforementioned terms is contained.

If student participants cause any incident that contributes to the termination of contracts during the training period at partner institutions, the partner institutions shall coordinate with schools to counsel their student participants within three days from the date the institutions become aware of the incident; partner institutions that do not follow this process within time limit may not use the incident as an excuse to terminate the training contracts of student participants.
If partner institutions follow the regulations in the previous Paragraph to coordinate with schools to counsel the student participants, and no improvement is seen in two weeks, partner institutions may terminate the training contracts of student participants, and report to the competent authority for further references.

Student participants that encounter controversies due to cooperative education matters may request for schools’ mediation, or file complaints to schools’ competent authority.
To conduct a mediation meeting regarding the previous Paragraph, schools shall invite representatives from partner institutions, the students and their parents, experts and scholars to participate, and shall have the competent authority representatives in attendance; during the meeting one person shall be elected as the chair of the meeting; minutes of the mediation meeting shall be recorded and submitted by schools to the competent authority for further references. Partner institutions shall implement the resolution reached in the mediation meeting.
Mediation in Paragraph 1 does not affect other right and remedies of student participants or partner institutions.
To review the complaint regarding Paragraph 1, schools’ competent authority shall select 7 to 15 scholars and experts who have expertise in education, psychological counseling, law, labor affairs, etc. to form a Complaint Review Committee; the gender of both sexes shall exceed 1/3 in this committee; regulations of its organization, operation, and other relevant matters shall be formulated by the corresponding competent authorities.