Measures of Beijing Municipality on Further Reducing Students’ Homework Burden and Off-campus Training Burden in Compulsory Education Stage
Summary of the main points of the press conference (morning of August 17)
On August 17th, Beijing Municipal Education Commission, Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and other units jointly held. Introduce the "double reduction" measures and the focus of the new semester.
Li Yi, Deputy Secretary of the Education Working Committee of Beijing Municipal Committee and spokesperson of the Municipal Education Commission.
Before the end of this year, the academic burden of students was effectively reduced, and the results were remarkable within two years.
The specific work objectives of Beijing’s "double reduction" are: making efforts both inside and outside the school, steadily advancing and implementing step by step, ensuring that students’ excessive workload and off-campus training burden, family education expenditure and parents’ corresponding energy burden will be effectively reduced before the end of 2021, and the results will be remarkable within two years, and the people’s educational satisfaction will be significantly improved. Specifically, there are two aspects.
First, on-campus services should improve quality and efficiency.Give full play to the role of the school as the main channel for educating people, intensify the reform, co-ordinate the educational resources inside and outside the school, co-ordinate the two periods after class, make an overall plan for the school education and teaching arrangements, and comprehensively and systematically build the school education ecology. Improve the quality of on-campus education services and build a high-quality education system, so that every student can learn well, learn well and learn well in school.
Second, off-campus training should be standardized and orderly.Adhere to strict governance, comprehensively standardize off-campus training institutions, prevent disorderly expansion, strictly investigate all kinds of violations and violations of the interests of the masses, and create a favorable environment for students’ all-round healthy growth.
On-campus services should improve quality and efficiency.
There will be new changes in the classroom teaching mode in Beijing in the new semester, and some junior high schools will offer evening self-study.
The implementation of the "double reduction" measures in the new semester will bring about new changes in teaching, homework and counseling. For example, the classroom teaching mode, teaching design will be more real, effective and interesting, aiming at different students’ hierarchical and phased classroom exercises, etc. There will be new changes in homework, less homework, and more "personalized" homework for different students’ characteristics. At 3: 30 after class, it will be more abundant, not only with quality education courses, but also with extended classroom counseling; Some junior high schools will also offer evening self-study; Teachers’ workload and working hours will be more reasonably allocated.
Reduce students’ heavy academic burden and work hard on "homework"
Effectively reducing students’ excessive homework burden is an important starting point to reduce all kinds of burdens, including coordinating homework management, controlling the total amount of homework, strengthening the design and guidance of homework, giving full play to the functions of diagnosis and consolidation of homework, and integrating the design of homework into the overall teaching and research system. The system design conforms to the age characteristics and learning rules of students, and at the same time reflects the basic role of quality education orientation, covering moral, intellectual, physical and artistic education, encouraging the arrangement of layered, flexible and personalized homework, and effectively improving the quality and pertinence of homework.
Schools are strictly forbidden to divide key classes into experimental classes.
Including expanding the coverage of high-quality resources, narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, regions and schools, promoting the balanced development of compulsory education and promoting the mobility of cadres and teachers in the region; Standardize the order of education and teaching, adhere to the "starting point" teaching in the first grade of primary school, the school shall not organize any form of enrollment and placement examination, and it is strictly forbidden to divide key classes and experimental classes; Improve the quality of classroom teaching and improve students’ learning efficiency at school; We will continue to deepen the reform of high school entrance examination methods, improve the presentation forms of examinations and scores according to the characteristics of different subjects, further improve the quality of senior high school entrance examination questions, and gradually increase the proportion of high-quality ordinary high school enrollment indicators allocated to junior high schools in the region.
Off-campus training should be standardized and orderly
First, strictly examine and approve access, and no longer examine and approve new discipline training institutions for students in compulsory education.Re-examine and register the existing discipline training institutions.
Second, strictly control the training time of disciplines,Strictly implement the relevant provisions of the law on the protection of minors, and off-campus training institutions shall not occupy national statutory holidays, rest days and cold and summer holidays to organize subject training.
The third is to standardize the training service behavior, improve the discipline training management service platform and dynamically master the training content, training materials, teacher qualifications and other information of discipline training.It is strictly forbidden to exceed the standard for advanced training, to engage in discipline training in non-discipline training institutions, and to provide overseas education courses.
Fourth, strengthen the supervision of business activities, implement the requirements of including the fees for off-campus training in compulsory education into the government-guided price management, scientifically and reasonably determine the pricing method, clarify the charging standards, and resolutely curb excessive fees and excessive profit-seeking behavior. Fully implement the management measures for pre-charge of off-campus training institutions in disciplines.
Fifth, capitalization operation is strictly prohibited, and the relevant requirements of the central government are strictly implemented. Discipline training institutions are not allowed to go public for financing.
Sixth, strengthen the management of off-campus training advertisements.
Education "double reduction" work supervision results into the annual performance appraisal.
It is necessary to strengthen the supervision and inspection of the "double reduction", increase the special supervision of the "double reduction" work, give full play to the educational supervision power at the municipal and district levels, conduct special supervision and inspection of the "double reduction" work, establish a accountability mechanism, and incorporate the inspection results into the annual performance appraisal.
Since the beginning of this year, Beijing has conducted law enforcement inspections of online and offline off-campus training institutions every week.
Conduct weekly law enforcement inspections on online and offline off-campus training in the form of "four noes and two straights", and report and transfer problems in time. Establish a management platform for off-campus training institutions of disciplines, carry out scientific management by means of information technology, and realize "five management" of funds, students, teachers, courses and institutions.
The "double reduction" came, and the Beijing Municipal Education Commission gave advice to parents.
On the one hand, parents should strengthen the contact with the school, strengthen the diagnosis of children’s dynamics, and improve the efficiency and quality of children’s school life; In view of children’s personality characteristics and hobbies, we will help students develop their strengths and avoid their weaknesses together with teachers.
On the other hand, parents should strengthen their study, understand the contents of the "double reduction" document about home-school linkage and home-school coordination, learn to help children choose suitable teaching materials and coordinate resources in and out of class from their personal hobbies.
In addition, parents should learn to communicate with their children, arrange their family life, pay close attention to their ideological and emotional changes, listen to their voices and be their friends; Guide children to make good use of their time at home, urge them to rest on time and ensure adequate sleep. At the same time, we should also arrange housework appropriately and strengthen physical exercise.
Wang Fang, Director of Haidian District Education Commission, Beijing
Haidian, Beijing: Focus on the management of unlicensed schools, illegal resumption of classes, illegal prices, false advertisements and other acts.
Haidian District has a large amount of education, many forms, all types and great influence. Whether it is on-campus education or off-campus training, Haidian District is the largest area in the city.
Under the leadership of the "double reduction" special class in Haidian District, the education administrative department and the market supervision department continued to carry out joint law enforcement and inspection work, focusing on the actions of running schools without a license, illegal resumption of classes, illegal price and false advertisements, realizing remote and real-time intelligent monitoring of all teaching points in offline resumption institutions, strengthening the management of the whole process, and strengthening the fund supervision of training institutions through the risk reserve and the mode of one class and one elimination, thus protecting the legitimate rights and interests of students.
Li Liang, Vice President of New Oriental Education Technology Group
Students who have not started classes after registration will be refunded unconditionally.
New Oriental has always adhered to the principle of "unconditional proportional refund" for students’ refund requirements, and unconditionally gave refunds to students who did not start classes after registration. For the refund requirements of students who have started classes, the corresponding tuition fees will be deducted according to the completed class hours, and the rest will be refunded unconditionally. At present, New Oriental provides various online and offline self-service refund channels, such as on-site, telephone, official website, micro-service, APP, etc., to directly handle the refund business, so as to ensure that the fees can be refunded to students and parents conveniently and quickly.
Original title: No discipline training is organized on holidays, and summary of the main points of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission’s "Double Reduction" conference
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