New regulations of the Ministry of Education strike out to curb corruption in art examination admissions
Art test becomes the worst-hit area for enrollment corruption, severely undermining education fairness
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Corruption cases in the art examination enrollment field occur from time to time, arousing widespread concern in the society, and also make the masses question the fairness, justice and authority of art examination enrollment.
Although the persons involved in the case have been severely punished by law, the risk of corruption behind the admissions of art examinations is still high, and it is necessary to make a heavy blow to curb corruption in the admissions of art examinations.
It is necessary to make those who violate rules and disciplines pay a heavy price, demonstrate legal deterrence, make violations, disciplines and cheating behaviors "dare to do" and "cannot do", gradually form an atmosphere of not being corrupted and not daring to corrupt, and create a clean and honest examination environment and Enrollment order.
□ Our reporter Zhang Wei
In the art examination field, where corruption is high, cases occur almost every year.
This phenomenon is expected to change.
Recently, the Ministry of Education issued the "Guiding Opinions on Further Strengthening and Improving the Recruitment of Art Majors in Ordinary Colleges and Universities" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), proposing to strengthen the investigation and punishment of violations of regulations and disciplines.
The staff and candidates who violate the rules and disciplines in the admissions of the art test shall be dealt with in strict accordance with the relevant regulations, and the relevant personnel shall be held accountable.
Strictly carry out the freshman admission qualification review and professional retest, and if any fraud or fraudulent practice is found, all admission qualifications, admission qualifications or student status will be cancelled.
"This is the first time that the country has issued programmatic and guiding opinions for art professional examinations, and the system construction will be completed in 2024. The release of the "Opinions" is of great significance, and its tasks and measures provide a benchmark for the national art professional enrollment work. , So that the further improvement of the admissions work of various colleges and universities is well-documented and reasonable." Lu Xiaobo, Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, said that the college entrance examination is a major event that affects the future of the country, social stability and personal destiny. Rely on.
Corruption is frequent and must be curbed
The corruption case of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music that occurred last summer exposed the hidden rules of the art examination field, and the attention once ignited the Internet.
From June 30 to July 10 last year, three professors from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music were taken away by the discipline inspection and supervision organs for investigation, suspected of being suspected of corruption in the admission of art majors.
According to a report, candidates and parents of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, as well as faculty, staff, and retired old teachers all know: To enter the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, you must pay privately. This is an unspoken rule.
Over the past 20 years, their enrollment and wealth has evolved from self-employed individuals to unified standards, unified management, unified scoring, and unified distribution. The candidate fees (that is, bribes) are kept separately by the three teachers in the group.
This is not the first time that Sichuan Conservatory of Music has been associated with corruption in art examinations.
Some people use the term "the not-so-smoke "Chuan Yin" past" to describe the black history of the hospital that has been exposed many times in recent years.
For example, in 2015, Chai Yongbai, the former party secretary of the academy, fell for accepting bribes, and in 2016, the case of Wu Lihong, a professor of the vocal music department of the academy, who accepted bribes from parents of students.
In just a few years, it is not accidental that there have been so many cases of a school just being exposed.
It reflects the reality that the field of art examination admissions has always been a place where corruption is high.
In recent years, art test corruption cases have been exposed in many places.
Industry insiders analyze that this is related to its special selection method.
For example, the selection of art examinations is highly subjective, and the examiner's subjective aesthetics and personality judgments will greatly affect the candidates' performance. In the absence of system constraints, subjective factors may become a weak fortress to be breached.
Moreover, in many cases, the main person in charge of the art test has the dual identities of "coach" and "referee".
Corruption cases in the art exam enrollment field have frequently occurred and have aroused widespread public concern. According to Qian Jun, the party secretary of the Beijing Film Academy, it has also caused the masses to question the fairness and authority of art exam enrollment.
"Although the persons involved in the case have been severely punished by law, the risk of corruption behind the admissions of art examinations is still high, and it is necessary to make a heavy blow to curb corruption in the admissions of art examinations."
To this end, the "Opinions" proposes to increase the intensity of investigation and punishment of violations of regulations and disciplines.
Qian Jun said that it is necessary to make those who violate rules and disciplines pay a heavy price, demonstrate legal deterrence, and make violations, disciplines and cheating "dare to do" and "cannot do", and gradually form an atmosphere of not being corrupted and not daring to corrupt, and create a clean and healthy atmosphere. The examination environment and enrollment order.
Qian Jun believes that all provincial education administrative departments, disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies, admissions examination agencies, and colleges and universities should "zero tolerance" for violations of disciplines and regulations in the admissions of art examinations, find one, investigate and deal with them, and apply them to teachers who violate regulations and disciplines. The assessment of teacher ethics and style is "one-vote veto"; for those who violate the law, the parties and related personnel shall be seriously held accountable in accordance with the law.
It is necessary to increase the cost of cheating to effectively curb the cheating motives and behaviors of a small number of candidates. For candidates who cheat in art exams, including forging and fraudulently obtaining registration qualifications, they should be recognized as cheating in the national education examination and be reported to the provincial level. The admissions examination agency notified that the student's registration and admission qualifications for the college entrance examination that year were cancelled.
Reduce the scale of independent school examinations
The impact of the "Opinions" does not stop there.
The "Opinions" focus on "how to position", "how to test", "how to enroll" and "how to supervise", and put forward a series of reform tasks from the four aspects of positioning, examination evaluation, admission methods, and supervision and management: Measures for improvement, standardization and adjustment have been proposed in terms of examination and evaluation personnel selection, examination organization and management, and enrollment methods.
In Lu Xiaobo's view, the "Opinions" seeks truth from facts to clarify the status quo of national art examinations and face the existing problems. The high degree of macro grasp, the sharpness of the existing problems, and the effective degree of measures can ensure the selection of talents in a more precise and reasonable manner. The fairness of training is in line with the law of educational development; safeguarding social fairness, helping students develop healthily, reducing the pressure on students and families to take exams, alleviating internal competition, and making choices and judgments more targeted.
Lu Xiaobo believes that the "Opinions" will bring about changes in the following three points: First, it will help different colleges and universities to reach consensus on key issues and key links such as positioning, evaluation, admission, and supervision, so as to realize the enrollment work "for The true value of "educating people, promoting education, and educating people".
Furthermore, the complexity of art examinations is reduced.
This will reduce unnecessary costs and energy consumption for the country, schools, candidates and families.
Secondly, it helps to rationally stratify the talent structure.
Strengthen the respective characteristics of the provincial unified examination and college entrance examination in the selection phase, further expand the scope of the provincial unified examination, reduce the number of institutions that independently organize the school examination and the scale of the school examination, and clarify their indispensable role in the entire college entrance examination system. So as to alleviate the current tendency of ambiguity and homogeneity of higher education.
Excessively and extensively granting schools the autonomy of enrolling students for art examinations, to some extent, also conflicts with the cultural assessment of the college entrance examination, which will weaken the authority of the unified college entrance examination, increase the risk of affecting the fairness and justice of the examination, and cause some schools to ignore the conditions of running the school. Blindly expanding the enrollment scale of art majors is prone to the phenomenon that enrollment scale and professional settings are out of touch with social needs.
Finally, it will help colleges and universities find problems and make adjustments in a timely manner during the reform transition period.
The "Opinions" stated that by 2024, all reform measures will be fully implemented, and a three-year transition period will be reserved for colleges and universities, and relevant reform measures can be carried forward in an orderly manner.
For example, whether the online examination format adopted by the new social environment in the past two years is stable and reliable, and whether it is sufficiently thorough.
Regarding the scale control of online and offline examinations, is the ratio reasonable?
Significantly reduce the number of candidates who have obtained the art examination certificate, whether it will affect the selection effect of cultural assessment and art examination equality, etc.
Colleges and universities can make full use of these two or three years to further consider and choose methods that suit them, improve internal mechanisms, and promote connotative development.
Improve the performance requirements of cultural courses
It is understood that in recent years, many art colleges have made explorations in strengthening the standardization of art examination enrollment, which is consistent with the relevant provisions of the "Opinions".
For example, the "Opinions" emphasized the need to improve the selection mechanism of assessors and optimize the composition of assessors.
Strengthen the standardized management of examination organization and strictly prevent examination fraud.
The key point is to strictly control the examination entrance, examination organization, and examination scoring to ensure that the examination is fair and just.
"Examination organization is a key link in the admissions work of art exams, and strengthening the management of assessors is the key to doing a good job in the admissions work of art exams. The recruitment process must be strict and strict, meticulous and meticulous." Xie, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Theatre Academy Wei said.
Xie Wei introduced that in recent years, the Shanghai Theatre Academy has issued a series of admissions management rules and regulations, such as the "Administrative Measures for the Undergraduate Admissions Exam Question Bank", "Regulations on the Implementation of Avoidance by Admissions Staff", and "On the prohibition of holding pre-examination tutorial classes and counseling activities." More than ten items such as "Regulations", and strive to effectively control the risks in the enrollment process with a strict and effective system.
The school continues to promote fairness and justice with standardized management, and has established a "one-station, two-repository, three-system" admissions examination work system and a three-random test scheduling model of "exam room-candidates-examination committee" to unify test standards and avoid test scheduling. Human interference factors and integrity risks in the process.
For another example, the "Opinions" have high requirements for the performance of cultural courses.
"In the past, there was always a misconception that only when high school grades were bad, they went to study art. Indeed, there are some art schools in order to obtain short-term benefits by maintaining low-point admissions, expanding the source of students, and ensuring the popularity of enrollment." Lu Xiaobo said. , STEAM education philosophy strongly proves that art is a discipline that goes hand in hand with science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Any one aspect is short board, will cause the "barrel effect".
Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts has always regarded "Art Test + College Entrance Examination" as an inseparable whole.
After 1999, the professional scores of the school entrance examination and the cultural scores of the college entrance examination were equalized, and the two parts were regarded as equally important.
"Doing so is also in line with or even promoting the development of the school-running philosophy of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts."