Do not organize province-wide competitions without authorization
Our province regulates the competition activities of elementary and middle school students, and resolutely prevents fraudulent behaviors such as the participation of parents or others
Yangtze Evening News (Reporter Wang Yun) The reporter learned from the Provincial Department of Education that our province announced the 2020-2021 school year the province’s primary and secondary school student competition activities and the national competition activities for Jiangsu primary and secondary school students, and clearly further strengthened the primary and secondary school student competition activities. Standardize management work.
The notice requires strict control of various competitions for primary and secondary school students across the province, and effectively reduce the burden on primary and secondary schools, students and parents.
Without the approval of the Provincial Department of Education, local schools shall not organize province-wide competitions for elementary and middle school students, nor organize or mobilize elementary and middle school students to participate in various discipline competitions held by social organizations such as non-academic education institutions.
All competition organizers or organization units are required to earnestly perform their main responsibilities, conduct a comprehensive self-examination, and review the authenticity and originality of past award-winning projects.
In particular, strengthen the qualification and ability review, implement the whole process of tracking, resolutely avoid the occurrence of the phenomenon that the participating projects are obviously not in line with the students' cognitive ability, and resolutely prevent the participation of parents or others from participating in fraudulent behaviors.
The notice also strictly prohibits illegal competition charges.
All competition organizers or organizations must adhere to the public welfare nature, and must not charge any fees to students or schools, and resolutely achieve "zero fees". They must not collect fees in disguised form by organizing training, winter camps, summer camps, etc. for participating students, and must not promote sales Or link up with some companies to promote materials, books, products, etc. in disguise, and it is not allowed to conduct grade examinations in the name of competitions and charge fees in violation of regulations.
In addition, strictly apply the results of the competition.
All localities must continue to strictly implement the compulsory education (kindergarten to elementary school, junior high school entrance examination) nearby admission policy, no competition awards as the basis for further education, and various competition awards are strictly prohibited as the basis for the high school entrance examination (high school entrance examination). And performance, etc. are included in the student's comprehensive quality evaluation file.
The reporter noted that the Provincial Department of Education will, under the guidance of the Ministry of Education, further regulate the management of approved competitions, and seriously investigate and deal with violations of laws and regulations in the competition.
Once it is discovered that teachers or other personnel have acted in violation of teacher ethics or academic misconduct, such as letting others sign their names on the results that did not participate in the research, write papers on their behalf, or create and research on their behalf, provide conditions or support for children or others to participate in the awards, etc. It is necessary to strictly follow the relevant national and provincial requirements and conduct serious investigations in accordance with laws and regulations.