Student Guidance and Counseling Act Article 8

Schools up to and including the senior secondary level shall set up a student guidance and counseling committee responsible for the following:1. Integrate appropriate resources of the school's various units, formulate student counseling work plans, and implement plans and assess their results.2. Plan and/or arrange activities related to student guidance and counseling work for students, teachers and other staff, administrative personnel, and parents.3. Utilize parental support and private-sector resources to promote and facilitate student guidance and counseling work.4. Other matters related to the promotion and development of student guidance and counseling work.The student guidance and counseling committee referred to in the previous paragraph shall have one chairperson, with the school principal taking on this role. The other committee members shall be appointed by the principal from among the school's administrators, guidance teachers or professional school counselors, teacher representatives, non-teaching staff representatives, student representatives, and parent representatives; the committee members of any gender shall not be less than one-third of the total number of committee members. However, junior high schools and primary schools may be exempted from appointing any student representative to the committee based on their circumstances.The regulations governing the organization, meetings, and other matters associated with the student guidance and counseling committee referred to in paragraph 1 shall be prescribed by the school.The regulations governing the organization, meetings, and other matters associated with the student guidance and counseling committee referred to in Paragraph 1 shall be prescribed by the school.In order to integrate the resources of the school's various units to facilitate and advance student guidance and counseling work, schools at the junior college level or higher may also apply the provisions of the previous three paragraphs, mutatis mutandis, and set up a student guidance and counseling committee.