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Guideline on education puts fairness and quality first
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CHINA has issued a guideline on educational reform to improve fairness and quality.
The guideline says educational reform should increase people’s “sense of gain.”
China has the largest public education sector in the world. As of the end of 2016, it had 512,000 schools and 265 million students in school.
China has a full coverage of nine-year compulsory education. Gross enrollment rate in senior high school reached 87.5 percent in 2016, with higher education at 42.7 percent.
Experts said deepening education reform should break the barriers that impair educational fairness and should improve educational quality.
Wang Binglin, director of the higher education social science development research center under the Ministry of Education, said that China was still facing problems and challenges in a number of areas.
“Pre-schools, vocational education and continuing education remain the weak links in the educational system, he said. “Teachers still cannot meet new requirements in raising quality and promoting fairness.”
He said the opening up of China’s education was still inadequate.
The guideline offers measures to target such weaknesses, officials said. It encourages private investment in pre-schooling, and stresses the same standards for the building of schools in urban and rural areas.
It also urges setting up a better system of assessment, supervision and support to improve special education.
The guideline says China will incorporate more ethical education content for students in its national curriculum, and seek to develop more innovative minds.
It says that an ethical education system guided by socialist core values must be put in place in all primary and middle schools, as well as higher education institutions.
Students must be “guided to firmly support the Party leadership,” it says. Also highlighted are social responsibility, the rule of law, and Chinese traditional and socialist culture.
Patriotic education and ethnic unity must be found “in textbooks, in classrooms and in students’ heads,” it said.
The guideline promises to allocate more education resources to ethnic minority groups.
Higher education institutions, meanwhile, must strive to cultivate innovative, inter-disciplinary and application-oriented talent, according to the guideline. Support for research into basic sciences will also be increased.
The guideline says the country will spend no less than 4 percent of its annual GDP in education-related fiscal expenditure, and promised to raise pay for teachers, noting that the average salary level of teachers should be no lower than that of local civil servants.
The guideline also responds to key public concerns.
Responding to appeals from working parents, the guideline requires schools to allow students to stay longer after school so that they and their parents can arrive home at the same time.
It also asks schools to provide a rich variety of after-school activities.
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