Our reporter Zhang Galun
"Next, let's ask questions." On the 31st, the State Council Information Office held a press conference. Song Demin, Vice Minister of Education, introduced the education system in-depth implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and construction of a high-quality education system. , The reporters present here are invited to "make moves."
The issue of "double reduction" has not surprisingly become a topic of concern to reporters.
The so-called "double reduction" is to reduce the burden of schoolwork and off-campus training for students.
In the feelings of parents and students, reducing the burden is like "pressing the gourd and lifting a dipper." The burden is reduced within the school and the burden is increased outside the school. Educational anxiety still exists.
Lu Yugang, Director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, responded to this. 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 behaviors that exceed the standards and exceed the standards have 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.
Lu Yugang revealed that this year the Ministry of Education 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, it is necessary to further strengthen the school's role as a leading position in educating people, effectively reduce the burden of students' off-campus training and homework, and actively respond to the widespread concerns of the people.
For off-campus training institutions, the Ministry of Education will adhere to the law, comprehensively implement policies, strictly implement the requirements of relevant national laws and regulations, strictly approve training institutions, strengthen training content supervision, innovate charging management methods, standardize training behaviors, and severely investigate and deal with violations of laws and regulations. Behaviors, and earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of parents and students.
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 particular emphasis on the time for after-school services to be connected with the local normal off-duty hours, to further enrich the content of after-school services, improve the quality of after-school services, and meet the needs of parents and students .
Standardizing the management of social competition projects is also an important measure to reduce the excessive academic burden of primary and secondary school students.
In 2018, the Ministry of Education issued the "Administrative Measures for Social Competitions for Primary and Secondary School Students". Starting in 2019, it will review and announce the list of competitions to the society, and strictly control the number of competitions.
In this process, the compulsory education stage subject competition projects were also completely cancelled.
The existing 5 Olympiads are only for high school students, not for students in compulsory education.
In addition, the Ministry of Education specifically emphasizes that any competition project, including award-winning results, shall not be used as the basis for enrollment in primary and secondary schools.
In the next step, the Ministry of Education will further increase its work, focusing on strengthening competition project management, severely investigating illegal competitions, and strictly implementing enrollment policies.
Lu Yugang emphasized that the system of "Citizens Recruitment" must be implemented unswervingly, and there will be no change.
It is strictly forbidden to link the enrollment of primary and secondary schools with any form of social competition, and resolutely cut off this chain of interests.
The reporter noted that the Ministry of Education and other six departments issued the "Guidelines for Evaluation of Compulsory Education" some time ago, which is also a sword of "burden reduction". It is necessary to build a scientific evaluation system oriented to the development of quality education and create a good education ecology.
Lu Yugang previously introduced that the "Guidelines for the Evaluation of Compulsory Education" included the effectiveness of promoting burden reduction in the quality evaluation of compulsory education, and also standardized the effectiveness of off-campus training for primary and secondary school students and the effectiveness of social competition work as an important part of the evaluation.
In the evaluation of school running quality, schools are required to teach in accordance with national curriculum standards, not to increase or decrease class hours, change difficulty, or adjust progress at will; strengthen homework management, coordinate the amount and time of homework, and must not be repetitive, mechanical or punitive Homework questions.
In the teaching work of teachers, we must insist on teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, accurately analyze their academic conditions, implement differentiated teaching and individualized guidance, especially for students with learning difficulties, strengthen assistance and guidance.
At the press conference, Lu Yugang also reminded parents once again to put the children’s physical and mental health first, establish a correct view of education and success, treat social training in a rational and objective manner, and do not put too much pressure on children, scientific and appropriate Arrange children’s study, life and exercise to promote their healthy growth and all-round development.
(Technology Daily, Beijing, March 31)