China News Service, March 31, Lv Yugang, Director of the Department of Basic Education, Ministry of Education, pointed out on the 31st that this year the Ministry of Education will further increase the governance of out-of-school training institutions; it will strictly implement the requirements of relevant national laws and regulations, and strictly approve training institutions. Strengthen the supervision of training content, innovate charging management methods, standardize training behavior, seriously investigate and deal with illegal training behaviors, and earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of parents and students.

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  The Information Office of the State Council held a press conference on the 31st. At the meeting, reporters asked questions. Recently, news about the need to carry out compulsory education to reduce the burden of students' schoolwork and the burden of off-campus training has attracted everyone's attention in the capital market.

At present, does the Ministry of Education have any latest measures to regulate extracurricular training and reduce the burden of extracurricular training for students?

  Lu Yugang pointed out that in recent years, various localities have actively carried out the governance of off-campus training institutions and achieved positive results.

However, there are still many outstanding problems in some places. The main manifestation is that the off-campus training is still overheated, and the training behavior that exceeds the standard and exceeds the standard has not been fundamentally resolved.

Some training programs charge high fees, and some training institutions have difficulties in refunding fees and running out of money. Problems still occur from time to time.

The existence of these problems has not only increased the academic burden of students, but also increased the financial burden and energy burden of parents. The social response to this has been very strong, and it has been widely called for further strengthening of governance.

  "This year, the Ministry of Education has listed this work as a key task, and will work with relevant departments to take more effective measures to further increase the governance of off-campus training institutions in accordance with the working ideas of systematic governance and both symptoms and root causes. At the same time, we must further strengthen The school’s role as the main position for educating people has effectively reduced the burden of students’ off-campus training and homework, and actively responded to the widespread concerns of the people.” Lu Yugang said.

  Lu Yugang introduced that for off-campus training institutions, we will adhere to lawful governance and comprehensive policies, strictly implement relevant national laws and regulations, strictly approve training institutions, strengthen training content supervision, innovate fee management methods, standardize training behavior, and strictly investigate and deal with violations of laws and regulations. Training behaviors effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of parents and students.

  At the same time, for compulsory education schools, it is necessary to further improve the quality of classroom teaching, standardize homework management, improve the level of homework design, and strictly control the total amount of written homework.

It is necessary to further enhance the supply of after-school services and guarantee the service time after school, with special emphasis on the time for after-school services to be connected with the normal local off-get off work hours, to further enrich the content of after-school services and improve the quality of after-school services to satisfy the needs of the people and students need.

  "Here is a special reminder to parents to put children’s physical and mental health first, to establish correct educational concepts and concepts of success, to treat social training rationally and objectively, and not to put too much pressure on children, scientifically and appropriately. Arrange children's study, life and exercises to promote their healthy growth and all-round development." Lu Yugang said.