Standardize off-campus training to solve the "three-and-a-half" problem
student burden reduction starts from outside the school
"The burden of primary and middle school students is too heavy, and the short-sighted and utilitarian problems have not been fundamentally solved. Especially the disorderly development of off-school training institutions, and the phenomenon of'burden reduction in schools and burden increase outside schools' is prominent."-Recently, the 19th Central Committee for Comprehensive Deepening Reform The meeting emphasized to reduce the burden of off-campus training for students in compulsory education.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" and the 2035 long-term goal outline clearly stated that off-campus training should be regulated.
At present, the problem of education anxiety caused by out-of-school training is widely concerned by the society.
To this end, local governments have strengthened supervision and management and innovated after-school services, starting from outside the school and seeking reasons from within, so that students can really reduce the burden.
Return to the original intention of education
In 2020, affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the off-campus training market, including online education institutions, will grow rapidly.
Statistics show that in 2020, the financing amount of China's basic education online industry alone will exceed 50 billion yuan, surpassing the sum of the previous 10 years, and the financing amount of many online education institutions has repeatedly reached new highs.
Parents’ education anxiety is “breaking”, giving the off-campus training market a foundation for development and growth.
As a supplement to school education, extracurricular training can meet students' extracurricular learning needs to a certain extent.
However, for some time, many off-campus training institutions have gone astray and far away from the original intention of education.
Industry insiders pointed out that the current education and training industry generally has problems such as difficulty in obtaining customers, low renewal rate, and slow return of costs. Therefore, low-cost customer acquisition has become an important means for its maintenance of operations.
Exceeding standards and advanced training by training institutions are important reasons why students' learning burdens cannot be reduced.
In recent years, governments at all levels and education authorities have proposed many measures to reduce the excessive burden on students, but many off-campus training institutions have adopted various measures to circumvent relevant policies and regulations-some have changed the name of the subject, but the actual content has not changed. Changing the dressing is still subject knowledge that exceeds the curriculum standards; some will convert offline lectures to online, avoiding some supervision...
A few days ago, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission reported that during the inspection of Beijing’s off-campus training institutions, some institutions were found to have irregularities, including the training end time was later than 8:30 pm; low-price marketing, sales anxiety and other inappropriate advertising; The teaching content exceeds the corresponding national curriculum standards and so on.
Experts say that the repeated prohibitions on off-campus training are partly due to the failure of school education to play a good role.
"The demand for'improving scores' has arisen and expanded, which has given birth to the increase and brutal expansion of training institutions. In this context, the positioning, operating methods and methods of training institutions determine that they are more efficient than schools in improving test scores." Said Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences.
Zhou Xiuping, a full-time associate researcher at the China Education Policy Research Institute of Beijing Normal University, said that at present, there is a misalignment between school education and family education.
"The policy design for ending school at 3:30 in the afternoon was designed to allow students to have sufficient time for physical activities, independent study and games. If parents leave work at 5:30 in the afternoon, there will be at least two hours of time. Many families are not allowed to There is no need to make up for off-campus training." Zhou Xiuping said.
Strengthen regulatory governance
How to fully regulate and manage off-campus training institutions?
The 19th meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Deepening Reform emphasized that we must adhere to strict governance and severely investigate and deal with institutions that have problems such as non-qualification, chaotic management, taking advantage of money, false propaganda, and collusion with schools for profit.
It is necessary to clarify the charging standards of training institutions, strengthen the supervision of pre-charging, strictly prohibit arbitrary capitalization operations, and do not allow conscientious industries to become profit-seeking industries.
It is necessary to improve relevant laws and manage off-campus training institutions according to law.
Experts said that the education and training industry has certain requirements in terms of teachers, courses, fees, advertising, etc., and industry access thresholds should be further regulated. For enterprises that do not meet the conditions and operate non-compliant, they should be urged and ordered to withdraw from the education and training industry. Avoid subsequent incidents such as a series of illegal operations, operating difficulties, and running out of money.
A few days ago, the Beijing Market Supervision Bureau issued a warning and an administrative penalty of a maximum fine of 500,000 yuan to four off-campus training institutions for price violations.
The Beijing Market Supervision Bureau stated that under the guise of low-price promotions, these institutions used marketing methods that had never traded a substantial price reduction to trick consumers or other operators into dealing with them, violating relevant provisions of the price law.
Departments such as education and market supervision should strengthen the guidance and regulation of various educational institutions to prevent disorderly capital fighting.
It is necessary to urge all institutions to focus on the main business of teaching and R&D, return to the education standard from capital competition as soon as possible, strengthen industry self-discipline, and provide high-quality services to consumers.
Guide education and training institutions to develop in the direction of serving students' diversified learning, and no longer conduct intensive training on compulsory education curriculum content.
The Beijing Municipal Education Commission and many other departments have recently jointly issued the "Beijing Municipal Disciplinary Off-campus Training Institutions Pre-charge Management Measures (Trial)", which puts forward the requirements for the bank depository model for the fees of subject-based off-campus training institutions.
The Measures require that institutions that charge trainee training fees in advance must adopt the bank depository model to carry out fund supervision; educational institutions’ charging period and teaching arrangements should be coordinated; training for primary and middle school students must not use “training loans” to pay training fees.
Rich after-school services
The chaos of training outside the school should also be found inside the school.
While intensifying efforts to tackle the problem of out-of-school training, efforts are being made to improve the quality of school education.
Chu Zhaohui believes that to fundamentally control the chaos of off-campus training, it is necessary to optimize the educational operation system, improve the evaluation standards, vigorously promote education balance, and encourage schools and teachers to effectively improve the school’s efficiency and quality in accordance with their actual conditions, and to fundamentally reduce them. Parents and students’ demand for “point-raising”.
In response to the "3:30" problem, further enhancing the supply of after-school services, guaranteeing the time of after-school services, and enriching the content of after-school services are also good strategies for solving the needs of parents for off-campus training.
The Ministry of Education’s "Guiding Opinions on Doing a Good Job in After-Class Services for Primary and Secondary School Students" clearly stipulates that primary and secondary schools should take the initiative to assume the responsibility of students’ after-school services.
At present, in response to the "three thirty" problem, various measures are being adopted across the country to ensure the development of after-school services.
Recently, Suzhou, Jiangsu proposed to implement a "3:30" physical education classroom with no less than two hours per week in primary schools to achieve 100% coverage of physical fitness activities in kindergartens, and encourage primary and secondary schools to establish a "sunshine sports" compliance mechanism. Explore sports social organizations into the campus.
Experts said that after-school services are faced with the question of "what to teach, who will teach, and where does the money come from". It is necessary to further refine and standardize the boundaries, and gradually explore the establishment of a sound after-school service system.
Liu Yao