China News Service, Beijing, March 2 (Reporter Kan Feng) "Educational resources" is on the hot search again.
On the 1st, in the second half of 2021, the interview results of the primary and secondary school teacher qualification examination and the examination certificate will open the query channel.
A number of related topics on social networks such as "Teaching Funding Certification" and "Teaching Funding Interview Results" occupy the hot search list, and the phenomenon of "teacher fever" has become a topic of public opinion again.
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"Educational funding" was so hot that the registration website collapsed
According to the current teacher qualification examination method, the examination is organized once in the first and second half of the year in most provinces.
The Written Examination for the second half of 2021 was held on October 30 last year.
The most popular teacher qualification exams have been very popular in recent years.
Let’s first look at a set of data: In 2016, there were 2.6 million applicants for the teacher qualification examination, 4.1 million in 2017, and nearly 9 million in 2019.
In the past two years, there has been no national data on the registration of the UGC, but judging from the registration situation disclosed by the local government, the popularity of the UGC has continued.
Taking Henan Province as an example, in the second half of 2021, a total of 560,600 people signed up for the UGC, ranking first among the provinces participating in the national unified examination, an increase of about 19% compared with the number of applicants in the first half of the year.
According to data from the Ministry of Education, during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the national average annual number of qualified teachers was more than 1.6 million, an increase of about 37% over the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period.
It is worth mentioning that the "educational resource fever" once paralyzed the test registration website.
In the second half of 2019, on the first day of the online report for the teacher qualification examination, due to the excessive number of applicants, the registration port was congested, and the registration official website server crashed due to excessive pressure.
Data map: On-site confirmation of teacher recruitment registration.
Image source: Visual China
"Top students" get together to apply for the normal school
Not only are there more and more people who are certified, but the competition for admissions to teacher training programs is also fierce.
Taking last year's college entrance examination enrollment as an example, in July last year, the media reported that Guangdong approved the admission of undergraduate colleges and universities in advance, and a total of 10,287 people were admitted, of which 1,600 were admitted to the special program for teachers.
In some provinces such as Tianjin and Yunnan, the admission line of professional groups in subordinate normal colleges and universities has soared. The admission line of Central China Normal University is only 13 points lower than that of Peking University and Tsinghua University. The tide is rising.
In January last year, at the press conference of the Ministry of Education, Yu Fayou, vice president and researcher of the Chinese Academy of Education Sciences, introduced the third-party evaluation of the implementation of the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Comprehensively Deepening the Reform of Teacher Team Construction in the New Era". .
According to his introduction, the proportion of students in the top 30% of college entrance examinations who apply for the teacher education program has increased from 18.3% in 2018 to 33.4% in 2019. The competition for new teacher positions has increased significantly, and in some areas dozens of people are competing for a position as normal. .
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Photo by Meng Delong issued by China News Agency
Why are young people so eager to teach teachers?
The background of the continued popularity of UGC is the increase in the number of college graduates year by year.
According to Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the China Academy of Education, in recent years, one of the main reasons for the “hotness” of the UGC is the rising number of college graduates. Under the competition for employment, holding a certificate means there is an additional way out.
Hu Xiangdong, a professor at Central China Normal University, also told the media before that the popularity of the teaching profession has made it "standard" for many graduates from comprehensive universities to "take two certificates", which are degree certificates and teacher qualification certificates.
In addition to college graduates who choose to study for the sake of employment, the continuous improvement of teachers' salary is also the background of "teacher fever".
At the end of last year, the Ministry of Education announced the Teachers Law (Draft Amendment) (Draft for Comments), which is open to the public for comments.
The "Draft for Comments" clarifies that teachers of public primary and secondary schools are state officials, and stipulates that the average salary level of primary and secondary school and kindergarten teachers should not be lower than or higher than the average salary level of local civil servants.
The "Draft for Comments" also proposes that the state establish a teacher honor recognition system and establish a national teacher award.
"From the perspective of the general environment, teachers' salaries are constantly improving, and the state has also given priority to guaranteeing the establishment. The attractiveness of the teaching profession in the future is constantly increasing. This is the background of the rising popularity of teaching examinations." Huatu Education Research Institute Expert Zhang Xiaojing analyzed that in recent years, the country has raised the entry threshold for teachers, and the teacher qualification certificate has become a necessary condition for teachers inside and outside the staff.
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