Article 43-1
To review the curriculum guidelines, the central competent authority shall establish a curriculum review committee (hereinafter referred to as the review committee); the review committee shall be divided into a plenary and concurrent sessions.
The plenary session is composed of 41 to 49 members including both governmental and non-governmental representatives. The number of governmental representatives shall not exceed one-quarter of the total number of committee members.
Members who serve as governmental representatives at the plenary session shall be nominated from candidates working in central and local government agencies and appointed by the President of the Executive Yuan by the Ministry of Education. The appointed persons may then be appointed, dismissed, or re-appointed to a different position in accordance with the nature of his or her duty.
Members who serve as non-governmental representatives are appointed in accordance with the following procedures:
1. The Executive Yuan shall nominate candidates from experts and scholars with expertise in education, members of teachers’ associations, members of principals’ associations, members of parents’ associations, members of non-governmental organizations related to education, and students’ representatives to be reviewed and approved by the member selection committee. Any candidate who wins a majority will be appointed by the President of the Executive Yuan.
2. The member selection committee mentioned in the previous paragraph will consist of 11 to 15 public figures for social justice as recommended by the Legislative Yuan.
Members of the review committee serve a term of four years and are eligible for re-appointment when the term of their service expires. The ratio of committee members represented by a single gender should be no less than one-third. Both governmental representatives and non-governmental representatives shall include indigenous peoples. For members who are appointed for the first time as non-governmental representatives, one-half of these members shall serve a term of two years.
Representatives from both central and local people’s representative bodies shall not serve as members of the member selection committee.

Article 43-2
The plenary session of the review committee shall be in charge of the following functions:
1. Examining the general curriculum guidelines and curriculum guidelines for all disciplines, subjects, and course groups.
2. Examining the principles for making revisions to the school curriculum.
3. Other decisions defined by applicable laws to be made at the review committee.
All resolutions made at the plenary session of the review committee shall require more than two thirds of all members to attend, and resolution of the session shall require the consent of more than half of the members present at the meeting.

Article 14
Each senior high school is assigned one full-time principal to manage school affairs; with permission from the competent authority, the president may teach part-time at the school where he or she manages, or at other schools.
The principal of a public senior high school shall be appointed and selected from the qualified candidates by the corresponding competent authority. The principal of a senior high school which is affiliated with a university shall be selected from principals or teachers at the associated university, or at any affiliated schools or from other schools by the selection committee as organized by such university; the choice of final selection shall be submitted to the principal to make (or accept) the appointment, and to the corresponding competent education authority for their reference; the selection process can also be delegated to the corresponding competent authority if so desired. The qualified candidates for the principal of a private senior high school shall be selected by the board of trustees of the school’s judicial person and appointed after reporting to the competent authority.
Principals of senior high schools shall serve a specified term. Principals of public schools shall serve a term that lasts four years. Currently employed principals that participate in the selection process shall receive appraisal regarding school-running performance; those who have received great performance appraisals by the selection committee may serve a second consecutive term at the same school, or may be prioritized during the selection process at other schools which are actively searching for principals. Principals who have not completed their first term of office or half of a second consecutive term may not participate in the selection process for principals at other schools. Regulations regarding matters related to the term of private school principals and any second consecutive term shall be stipulated by the board of trustees of the school’s judicial person.
Currently employed principals of junior high and elementary schools who meet the requirements for senior high school principals may not participate in the selection of senior high school principals if they have not completed their first term of office or half of any second consecutive term.
To conduct the selection process in Paragraph 2, the competent authority or the board of trustees of the school’s judicial person shall convene a search committee; regulations governing the components of the search committee, selection approaches, procedures, standards, the appraisal of principals’ school-running performance, employment of principals, and other relevant matters shall be stipulated by the central competent authority.
Regulations regarding the selection procedures for principals of senior high schools affiliated with universities, as well as the organization and operation of the selection committee shall be stipulated by the corresponding universities.

Article 25
Senior high schools shall conduct general meetings to examine matters as follows:
1. Important matters such as school development and campus master plans;
2. Important rules and regulations stipulated according to the laws or implied within one’s duty;
3. Academic affairs, student affairs, general affairs, and other important campus matters;
4. Other matters which shall be resolved by general meetings based on applicable laws.
Members of the general meeting include the principal, the director or chairperson of each unit, full-time teachers or representatives of teachers, representatives of staff members, representatives of the parents’ association, and elected student representatives; the number, ratio, recruitment, and resolution approaches shall be prescribed by each school and reported to the competent authority for their records.
General meetings shall be convened and hosted by the principal at least once every semester; the principal shall convene a general meeting within 15 days of the date when more than 1/5 of the meeting’s representatives request an ad-hoc general meeting take place.

Article 43
The central competent authority shall stipulate senior high schools’ curriculum guidelines and relevant regulations related to their implementation to serve as a guide for the schools’ planning and implementation of the curriculum; schools may integrate social resources with the planning of the curriculum to enrich teaching activities.
For the stipulation of the curriculum guidelines referred to in the previous paragraph, in addition to existing curriculum research and development institutions established by the central competent authority, other organizations, schools, judicial persons, and groups from education-related disciplines may also propose drafts of curriculum guidelines to be examined by the curriculum review committee. Regulations regarding the proposals, the procedures, and other relevant matters shall be stipulated by the central competent authority.
The research, development, examination, and implementation of the curriculum guidelines shall observe the principles of respecting ethnic diversity, gender equality, transparency, and non-partisanship.

Article 52
Senior high schools shall establish a Students’ Rewards and Penalties Committee to examine cases where students are rewarded or penalized.
The committee mentioned in the previous paragraph shall include elected student representatives or representatives from students’ associations; regulations regarding the committee’s organization, examination range, deadlines, evaluations and examination approaches, results-based enforcements, and all other relevant matters shall be stipulated by the corresponding competent authorities.

Article 53
Senior high schools shall guide students to organize self-governing organizations through elections which include the whole student body, and shall provide these organizations with assistance when necessary to enhance the study effectiveness and the ability to self-govern among students.
Students are ipso facto members of the student association referred to in the preceding paragraph. 

Article 54
A senior high school shall establish a Student Appeal Review Committee to review grievance cases, i.e. students’ or student self-governing organizations’ dissatisfaction toward a penalty which affects their rights and interests, or other measures and resolutions conducted by the school.
The committee mentioned in the previous paragraph shall include elected student representatives or representatives from students' associations; regulations regarding the committee’s scope of appeal, deadlines, organization, evaluation and examination approaches, results-based enforcement, and any other relevant matters shall be stipulated by the corresponding competent authorities.
In handling grievance cases or appeal cases as mentioned in Article 52 and in the previous two paragraphs, the school shall be objective, fair, and professional, allowing the person being punished or the appellant sufficient opportunities to state their case and respond to allegations.
The school shall inform in writing or through some other appropriate means the person being punished or the appellant of the decision made after a review of their appeal, and of the remedy procedures available if the appellant is not satisfied with the decision reached.

Article 55
To protect students’ rights and interests, meetings held to formulate regulations and rules governing students’ academic performance, life guidance, rewards and penalties, or graduation requirements, shall invite the elected student representatives to participate; the number of student representatives that may participate shall be stipulated by each school’s School Affairs Meetings.

Article 67
This Act shall be enacted on August 1st, 2014, except for Articles 35 to Article 41 which have already been enacted since September 1st, 2013.
Amendments to this Act shall enter into force from the date of their promulgation, except for Articles 25, 52, 54, and 55, which shall be enacted from October 1st, 2016.