◎Reporter Zhang Galun
The "Educational Supervision and Accountability Measures" is the first educational supervision accountability document issued in the history of New China. The authority and effectiveness of supervision are truly established in the system. Provisions are made for the rectification of interviews, resource adjustments, organization and handling, etc., which is conducive to Realize the linkage of education supervision, education law enforcement, and discipline inspection and supervision.
Educational supervision is a basic education system established by my country's Education Law, which shoulders the responsibility and mission of escorting the stable development of education reform.
On September 1, at a press conference held by the Ministry of Education, Tian Zuyin, Director of the Office of the Education Supervision Committee of the State Council and Director of the Education Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Education, pointed out that playing the role of education supervision is important for the implementation of education laws and regulations and major central decision-making and deployment. It is of great significance to promote the solution of hot and difficult issues in education.
In 2020, the State Supervision and Unannounced Visiting Team found and handed over clues to Sichuan Province regarding false reports and concealment of incentive subsidies for civil servants in a small number of counties, and ineffective verification and handling of teacher reporting issues.
Sichuan Province immediately verified and dealt with it immediately: notify and supervise the affairs, interview for rectification, and hold accountable.
Based on their duties and powers, the local government ordered the counties concerned to conduct in-depth inspections to the municipal party committee and the municipal government; issue supervision recommendations to the county government; admonish the county chief and ask him to conduct a review at a city-wide meeting; organize, handle, and punish 9 people for party discipline and government affairs.
This is the embodiment of the power of education supervision.
"Project One" guarantees the average salary of teachers
Educational supervision is a statutory function of the government, involving the responsibilities of multiple departments such as organization, establishment, personnel, finance, and market supervision.
In February 2020, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Educational Supervision System in the New Era" to build a socialist education supervision system with Chinese characteristics with comprehensive coverage, efficient operation, authoritative results, and strong accountability. Mechanism to make deployment.
In 2020, the Education Supervision Committee will supervise and urge the implementation of the “average salary income level of compulsory education teachers not lower than the average salary income level of local civil servants” (hereinafter referred to as “no lower than”) as the “No. work hard.
The 2,846 districts and counties across the country have formally pledged to achieve the goal of "no less than". This is the first time that all districts and counties across the country have fully committed to achieve the goal of "no less than" in the budget arrangement link since the compulsory education law and the teacher law were promulgated.
According to the latest supervision situation, all localities have fulfilled this commitment and formally established a long-term mechanism for guaranteeing teachers’ wages and a linkage mechanism for compulsory education teachers’ wages to be adjusted with the benefits of local civil servants.
However, Fu Ming, the governor of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education, also admitted that in the local supervision work, they found that sometimes there was a tendency to be "harmonious." Strong problems have been delayed for a long time, and the main reason for repeated corrections is that the accountability board has not been beaten down, and no one will bear the responsibility.
Ten times of supervision is not as good as one accountability
The main reason why education supervision cannot fully function is that accountability cannot keep up.
Ten times of supervision is not as good as one time accountability.
In July this year, the Education Supervision Committee of the State Council issued the "Measures for Educational Supervision and Accountability" (hereinafter referred to as the "Accountability Measures"), which was formally implemented on September 1.
The "Accountability Measures" clarified the main accountability targets: local governments and related functional departments, various schools and other educational institutions, and related staff.
The "Accountability Measures" pointed out that the education supervision committees at all levels are responsible for the accountability of the people's governments and relevant departments at the lower levels, schools of all levels, and other educational institutions.
The results of accountability are linked to the performance evaluation of party and government leaders and teachers, promotion of positions and ranks, rewards and punishments, etc., to ensure strong accountability.
Six types of situations must be held accountable: First, the implementation of the party’s education policy and the incomplete and incomplete education decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council; second, insufficient performance of education responsibilities; third, serious delay in the completion of educational tasks; fourth, school-running behavior Irregularities; Fifth, the quality of education and teaching has declined; Sixth, there are more safety problems or refusal to accept education supervision.
The "Accountability Measures" clarify that the competent department of the supervised unit shall guide and urge the supervised unit to implement the rectification opinions, and the ineffective rectification shall be jointly and severally liable.
Tian Zuyin said that the "Accountability Measures" has three major innovations: This is the first education supervision accountability document issued in the history of New China. The authority and effectiveness of supervision have been truly established in the system; Provisions for handling, etc. are conducive to the realization of the linkage of education supervision, education law enforcement, and discipline inspection and supervision; the objects, content, methods and procedures of supervision and accountability are clarified, and the standardization of supervision and accountability is realized.
He said that the introduction of the "Accountability Measures" is an important measure for education supervision to "grow teeth" and another important milestone in the construction of my country's education supervision system.