Students elect curriculum review representatives

By Sean Lin  /  Staff reporter

Seventy-one students yesterday elected 22 student representatives to serve on the Ministry of Education’s curriculum review committee.

The convention at National Changhua Girls’ Senior High School to elect student representatives was the third of its kind.

National Taitung University graduate student Wu Lu-te (吳律德), National Chengchi University student Liao Hao-hsiang (廖浩翔), Soochow University student Liu Chien-ping (劉千萍) and National Changhua Senior High School student Hsiao Chu-chun (蕭竹均) were elected to serve at curriculum review committee general assemblies.

Eighteen students studying at senior high schools, universities and graduate schools were elected as members for seven subcommittees: elementary school education, junior-high school education, ordinary high-school education, vocational-high school education, special education, physical education and art education.

The election rules stipulate that the representation of male or female members should not be lower than one-third of the committee.

The rules also set aside three protected groups for student who are children of foreign parents, Aboriginal students and physically or mentally challenged students, and stipulate that at least one member be elected for each group.

Ministry official Tsai Meng-kai (蔡孟愷) said that 11 committee members are in a secondary school, while the other 11 are university or graduate students.

Tsai said that six students, including Hsiao and Liao, participated in last year’s protest against adjustments to high-school history curriculum guidelines.

He said that there were 36 candidates, the youngest a junior-high school student, adding that three abstained from voting.