The Internet reveals that the teachers of Sichuan Music School return to China to "cut the wheat" art majors are frequently corrupted
Remove the "cancer" of corruption in the art examination admissions
● Corruption in the admissions of arts majors is an old problem. It can be said to be a "cancer" in China's college entrance examination system, but there is no need to regard it as a scourge. The corruption of arts majors is not fundamentally different from other corruptions, and there is no power. Due to effective supervision
● It is precisely because of the small circle characteristics of the art professional field that it is prone to corruption when enrolling students in the art professional field. It is like a deep pool of small area, but the impact is relatively bad.
● It is necessary to severely punish the corruption problems that occur in the admissions of art majors, include college personnel with admissions powers as the subject of supervision, and deal with it in accordance with the Public Officials' Governmental Sanctions Law and the Supervision Law. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the supervision of the entire admissions process of art majors, and strictly control the qualification review and supervision and evaluation.
□ Reporter Chen Lei
□ Trainee reporter Liu Ziwei
Recently, the news that three teachers of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music were suspected of being involved in the corruption of art majors were taken away from the investigation, which immediately caused widespread public concern.
This matter is not an isolated case. A reporter from the "Rule of Law Daily" combed through public information. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, many party members, leading cadres and teachers of art colleges have been investigated for this.
Experts interviewed by reporters from the "Rules of Law Daily" believe that the corruption of art majors is an old problem. It can be said to be a "cancer" in China's college entrance examination system, but there is no need to regard it as a scourge. There is no fundamental difference between other corruptions, and they are all caused by the lack of effective supervision of power.
Experts believe that to solve the problem of corruption in the admissions of art majors, it is necessary to severely punish those involved in corruption, but also to improve the supervision of the admissions process of art majors, and at the same time strengthen the construction of the professional ethics of art teachers and improve the level of education governance , To standardize and scientificize the college entrance examination admission system, including the admissions of art majors.
Corruption occurs frequently in art exam admissions
Refraction system has shortcomings
Recently, some media reported that Yang, Fei, and Deng, three teachers of the Vocal Music Department of Sichuan Conservatory of Music, were taken away for investigation by relevant departments for suspected involvement in the corruption of vocal music majors.
On August 22, a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily logged onto the official website of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music and entered the page of the Vocal Music Department. Under the faculty, you could see the photos and introductions of two teachers involved, Yang and Fei, but they didn’t read it. Photos and introduction to Deng.
This is not the first time that the Sichuan Conservatory of Music has been exposed to corruption in admissions.
According to public information, in July 2015, Chai Yongbai, former party secretary and deputy dean of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, was taken away for investigation. In August 2017, the Chengdu Intermediate People's Court of Sichuan Province issued a first-instance verdict on Chai Yongbai's suspected bribery case, sentenced him to 11 years in prison and fined him 1 million yuan.
The court found that from 2001 to 2015, Chai Yongbai took advantage of his position to provide assistance to others in obtaining projects, appropriating funds, personnel appointments, student enrollment, etc., and illegally received a total of 9,144,400 yuan from He and others. US$20,000 and 30 grams of gold bullion.
The first-instance criminal verdict of Chai Yongbai on bribery issued by China Judging Documents Network in November 2017 showed that he had repeatedly accepted bribes for students' enrollment.
From 2008 to 2012, Chai Yongbai provided assistance to Xie and his friends' children in employment, student enrollment, etc., and received 190,000 yuan from Xie.
From 2008 to 2014, Chai Yongbai provided assistance to the children of a company’s chairman Liu’s friend in work and employment, student enrollment and other aspects. From 2006 to 2012, he received 100,000 yuan from Liu and gave him a loan in the name of Liu asked for more than 470,000 yuan for the use of his specific relationship.
From 2010 to 2011, Chai Yongbai provided assistance to Hou and Wei in terms of work and employment, student enrollment, etc., and his specific relationship received 80,000 yuan for Hou and 100,000 yuan for Wei.
In addition, Wu Lihong, the former teacher of the Vocal Music Department of Sichuan Conservatory of Music, was also involved in admissions corruption.
According to the judgment issued by the China Judgment Document Network, in March 2013, in order to seek help from the then teacher of Sichuan Conservatory of Music Wu Lihong in the admissions professional examination, Feng, who was the vice president of a Hubei branch of the central bank, rushed to Chengdu. Give 120,000 yuan to Wu Lihong.
In the subsequent music professional examinations, Wu Lihong used her as a recruiting judge to greet other judges and teachers, so that Feng's son was admitted to the Sichuan Conservatory of Music.
Zhuang Deshui, deputy director of the Center for Integrity Research of Peking University, said in an interview with a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily that the exposure of the corruption problem in the art majors of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music should be said to be a reminder to China’s art majors’ enrollment system. Opportunity for reflection, to comprehensively examine the shortcomings of the enrollment system and make up for it, and promote the standardization of the enrollment system.
In Zhuang Deshui's view, the college entrance examination system, including art majors, should best reflect social fairness and justice, but it is precisely the loopholes in the college entrance examination system that have touched the nerves of the entire society to pay attention to fairness and justice, which has caused widespread public doubts.
"Either the Tongzhuo incident or the Sichuan Music (Sichuan Conservatory of Music) incident this time have reflected some problems in China's current enrollment system." Zhuang Deshui said, "These incidents have attracted much attention and also show that the current public is tolerant of corruption. The degree is getting lower and lower, and the pursuit of social fairness and justice is getting higher and higher."
Small circles hide big risks
Breeding corruption and bad influence
According to my country's current education system, the enrollment of art majors is roughly divided into art majors, performance majors, music majors, dance majors, etc.
A reporter from the "Rules of Law Daily" combed through public information. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, art teachers in many colleges and universities across the country have been investigated for corruption in enrollment.
In March 2013, the Hubei Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and the former Hubei Provincial Supervision Department filed an investigation into Liu Gang, the former party secretary of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts. In August of the same year, Liu Gang was transferred to judicial organs for handling in accordance with the law.
In February 2015, the Intermediate People's Court of Huangshi City, Hubei Province issued a first-instance verdict on Liu Gang's suspected bribery case and sentenced him to 11 years in prison.
According to the facts ascertained by the court, one of its cases involving corruption in enrollment was the receipt of RMB 100,000 from Long, the person in charge of an art training school in Wuhan, Hubei Province, to help many candidates attend the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts.
In addition, Liu Gang and his wife jointly accepted a bribe of more than 430,000 yuan from an admissions agency in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. The standard for each candidate was 50,000 to 60,000 yuan.
Meng Xinyang, the former dean of the School of Music of Minzu University of China, was also investigated for corruption in admissions, in April 2015.
According to investigations, from 2008 to 2014, Meng Xinyang accepted the entrustment of 5 teachers from Minzu University of China to help 13 candidates pass the professional examination of the Conservatory of Music of Minzu University of China, and received a total of 1.23 million yuan in bribes.
In May 2016, the People's Court of Longhua County, Hebei Province made a first-instance judgment in the case of Meng Xinyang, sentenced him to 5 years in prison for accepting bribes, fined 700,000 yuan, and pursued his illegal gains of 1.58 million yuan. Meng Xinyang refused to accept the judgment and filed an appeal. In September 2016, the Intermediate People's Court of Chengde City, Hebei Province ruled to reject the appeal and uphold the original judgment.
On the list of teachers involved in enrollment corruption, there is also the name of Wang Hongxing, the former vice-president of Yunnan Arts University. Born in 1974, he has won many awards at home and abroad. At a young age, he is already a national first-class actor and professor.
In March 2017, the Yunnan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Wang Hongxing was suspected of serious violation of discipline and was subject to organizational review. In January 2019, Wang Hongxing was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for bribery.
The court found that from 2010 to 2016, Wang Hongxing made use of his position to promise to seek benefits for others in matters such as recommending study abroad, enrollment examinations, job search, borrowing, and participating in competitions, and accepted bribes totaling 2.42 million yuan. Due to the failure to complete the request and other reasons, Wang Hongxing returned 580,000 yuan before the incident.
Wang Hongxing refused to accept the judgment of the first instance and filed an appeal.
In view of the fact that during the second instance, Wang Hongxing pleaded guilty and punished; he actively returned all the remaining stolen money; exposed the crime of others and proved to be true. He has performed meritorious service and can be given a lighter punishment according to law. In October 2019, the Yunnan Provincial Higher People's Court commuted him to 5 years in prison and fined him 1 million yuan.
In addition, there are Yin, the former teacher of the Music Department of Shanghai Digital Art University, and Wang, the former lecturer of the School of Literature and Art Media, Anhui University of Finance and Economics.
In Zhuang Deshui’s view, the corruption of art majors is an old problem, and it can be said to be a “cancer” in China’s college entrance examination system. “An important reason why art majors are prone to corruption is that the art circle is very small, and candidates are It is easy for teachers to form interest relationships, and there is a risk of corruption. Moreover, the scores of art majors themselves are very low, or art majors themselves can add points. To a certain extent, some parents and students hope to bribe teachers, The judges are admitted to university".
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, believes that the corruption problem in the admissions of arts majors is due to the power of college admissions on the one hand, and the particularity of the art field itself. "In the art professional field, Perhaps only a few people can make judgments, and among these few people, a community of interests may be formed."
Chu Zhaohui believes that it is precisely because of the small circle characteristics of the art professional field that it is prone to corruption when enrolling students in the art major. It is like a deep pool of small area, but the impact is relatively bad.
Establish a peer recognition mechanism
Compress the judges' corruption
On March 12 this year, the Ministry of Education held a video conference to make arrangements for the 2020 art major admissions examination.
The person in charge of the Department of College Students of the Ministry of Education stated that fairness and justice are the basic value orientation of admissions examinations, and this bottom line must be adhered to. It is necessary to strictly regulate management, strengthen information disclosure, and unblock the supervision and reporting channels, so that the admission examination for art majors can be supervised by all aspects of society under the sun to ensure fairness and justice.
The Ministry of Education requires the provincial education departments to strengthen the overall management, guidance and supervision of the local examination organization of local universities and related universities. One of the specific measures includes strictly regulating the selection, training and supervision of the judges, and signing a letter of responsibility for avoidance of stakeholders one by one.
According to Zhuang Deshui's observation, in response to the problems in the admissions field of art majors, the education administration department and various universities have adopted a series of reform measures. For example, candidates and judges do not meet each other to avoid black-box operations; another example is remote evaluation, randomized by universities. Select teachers from different places to serve as judges.
Zhuang Deshui believes that these explorations are worthy of recognition, but more attention should be paid to how to prevent corruption in the admission of art majors. "We should not regard corruption in the admissions of arts majors as scourges. This kind of corruption is actually no different from corruption in other fields. As long as power is not supervised and there is a need for benefits, corruption may arise."
In Chu Zhaohui's view, the key lies in how to solve the problem of professional evaluation of the admissions of art majors. "Establishing a professional evaluation community in the field of art, transforming the past by individuals into the recognition of professional peers, that is, establishing professional peer recognition. Mechanism to ensure fairness and justice".
"In the field of art, centralized evaluation power or arbitrary evaluation power may cause corruption. If it is a decentralized evaluation power and is open and transparent, corruption can be reduced or eliminated." Chu Zhaohui said.
Chu Zhaohui believes that art teachers should have professionalism, and corresponding mechanisms and rules need to be established to ensure that professional teachers adhere to professionalism and are not affected by power and interests, "especially to ensure that those with professional evaluation rights can abide by the rules and not slippery. Into the quagmire of interests".
In Zhuang Deshui’s view, it is necessary to severely punish the corruption problems that occur in the admissions of art majors, especially for teachers and judges of art colleges, and include college personnel with admissions powers as the subject of supervision, and deal with it in accordance with the Public Officials' Governmental Sanctions and Supervision Law . At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the supervision of the entire admission process of art majors, strictly control the qualification examination and supervision and evaluation, and prevent the judges from corruption.
"We should also strengthen the construction of teachers’ ethics and style of teachers in art academies, encourage them to respect their professional evaluation power, cherish their own feathers, respect the elegance and nobility of art, and defend the professional ethics of teachers and not be affected by money or favors. The relationship tempted and hunted." Zhuang Deshui said.
Zhuang Deshui suggested that, in the long run, education governance should be strengthened, and by improving the level of higher education supervision and management, we should continuously improve the standardization and scientificization of enrollment work, so that enrollment work will become an important mechanism for talent selection and embody social fairness and justice.