Recently, some netizens asked questions through the message board of the leaders of People’s Daily. According to the plan for this year’s college promotion announced by some colleges and universities in Henan Province, some colleges and universities and some majors have not expanded their enrollment, but have reduced their enrollment plan, and even the enrollment plan has been reduced by at least compared with last year. Half of the quota, don’t know why?
Netizens said that in response to the impact of the epidemic on all walks of life this year, the central government has successively issued a number of targeted policies to slow down and mitigate various possible impacts. One of them clearly stated that to further ease the employment pressure of college students this year, it is targeted at 2020. Undergraduate and postgraduate enrollment plans of the colleges and universities should be expanded appropriately. "Under this year's situation where the impact of the epidemic is irresistible, does the fact that our province allows partial reductions in enrollment plans deviate from the previous relevant policies proposed by the central government to slow the impact of the epidemic? Or are there any special reasons?"
The Henan Provincial Department of Education replied that this year, Henan’s undergraduate enrollment plan has arranged 66,000, an increase of about 14,000 over the previous year, and the plan for enrollment expansion has been successfully completed. However, due to the large differences in the examination subjects of each major for postgraduate upgrades, it is impossible to perform a comprehensive ranking. Therefore, in order to protect the basic rights and interests of candidates for each major, the enrollment plan for undergraduate students is determined according to the average admission rate of each major and the total number of applicants for each major. Due to the drastic reduction in the number of applicants for some majors and even the absence of applicants, in order to avoid wasting the enrollment plan, there may be a phenomenon of reduction or even suspension of enrollment due to individual professional enrollment plans. This situation is a normal professional plan structure adjustment and is in line with national requirements. There is no contradiction in the increase in the total scale of the college upgrade.
The Henan Provincial Department of Education also pointed out that there are 47 undergraduate colleges and universities in the province that recruit junior college students, of which 40 maintain or exceed the enrollment scale of the previous year, and only 7 colleges and universities have undertaken national tasks such as higher vocational enrollment and graduate enrollment. To avoid a decline in the quality of education after students enter the school, colleges and universities are allowed to arrange as much as possible the enrollment plan for undergraduate education when the conditions permit.
The Paper Journalist Zhong Yuhao