China News Service, Beijing, March 11 (Zhou Yanling) Zou Lianke, a representative of the National People's Congress and director of the Guizhou Provincial Department of Education, said that the current development of rural education is still a "short board" and it is recommended to formulate a classified development policy for small rural schools and vigorously develop rural foundations. Education helps rural revitalization and enables rural children to “study well”.
The picture shows students from Dajie Primary School in Congjiang County, Guizhou Province.
Photo by China News Network reporter Qu Honglun
With the acceleration of urbanization, the phenomenon of weak and empty rural education has become more prominent.
In Zou Lianke's view, the integrated development of urban and rural compulsory education and the improvement of the public service network for rural basic education are the "precise" medicine to solve problems such as shortage of rural education resources, structural imbalance, and low quality, and to help revitalize rural education.
Zou Lianke suggested that county-level governments should further strengthen their main responsibility for fulfilling compulsory education; provincial-level governments should increase coordination efforts, urge and guide governments at all levels to effectively fulfill their main responsibility for developing compulsory education, and coordinate financial funds to support the development of rural compulsory education; for local governments The proportion of funds invested in rural education shall be stipulated and the implementation shall be supervised to effectively ensure the healthy and sustainable development of rural basic education.
Currently, with the adjustment of the layout of rural primary schools and teaching points, rural schools in some areas are facing the dilemma of "hollowing out" or even being merged, which has increased the difficulty of rural children's access to school.
In this regard, Zou Lianke suggested formulating a classified development policy for small-scale rural schools. Small-scale rural schools can provide school-age children in remote rural areas with nearby enrollment opportunities, which is conducive to the popularization of education and a fair starting point.
Zou Lianke said that in the context of rural revitalization and new urbanization, retaining necessary small-scale rural schools and formulating classified development policies for small-scale rural schools based on service scope, number of students, school quality, transportation convenience and other factors can avoid "dismantling" Deviation in the implementation of the "point-to-point merger" policy.
In response to problems such as insufficient number of teachers and structural imbalance in small-scale rural schools, Zou Lianke suggested that the national level should formulate a teaching policy for teachers in shortage subjects in small-scale rural schools, clarify corresponding requirements in terms of financial support, class guarantee, etc., and support mainly rural central schools. , coordinate teacher resources for subjects that are in short supply in townships, carry out teaching tours to small schools in the radiation area, ensure that small schools have full course hours, promote the all-round development of students, implement the policy of urban teachers serving the grassroots, and add fresh blood to rural schools.
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