The rise and fall of the country depends on education; The whole people have the responsibility to revitalize education.

First, the status quo and gap of national education

A few days ago, the Ministry of Education issued the Report on Education and Human Resources in China for the first time, which made a detailed comparative analysis of the current situation of education and human resources development in China and some countries. According to the data in the report, the years of education for nationals over 0/5 in China are only 7.85 years, and those over 25 years old are 7.42 years, both of which are still lower than the second grade of junior high school on average, similar to the level before 0/00 in the United States. In 2000, only 18% of the population aged 25-64 in China had a high school education, which was far from the same proportion of 87% and 66% in the United States and South Korea. The report summarizes the basic situation of human resources in China: the overall quality of the people is low, there is a serious shortage of middle and senior talents, and the overall level of human resources is far from that of developed countries and newly industrialized countries.

Second, insufficient investment is the bottleneck restricting the reform and development of education.

On the one hand, the educational appropriation and transfer payment in the financial budget are mainly used for the salaries of faculty and staff, and the funds used to ensure the normal operation of education and teaching and improve school conditions are extremely limited; On the other hand, due to the changes in the structure of national financial expenditure on education, the proportion of funds used for the development of higher education has increased, while the funds used for basic education have relatively decreased. In addition, the scale of education debt is large, and the multi-channel education investment and financing system has not yet been formed, so the education investment is far from meeting the needs of education development. Due to insufficient investment, the development of private education is slow, the overall quality of teachers is not high, educational ideas are backward, teaching methods and means are outdated, and management efficiency is low.

At present, there are still many children in poor areas who are out of school because of lack of money. Many underdeveloped townships (towns) have invested 50% in education. If we ask the government to increase investment in education too much, it will inevitably affect the government's investment in other industries, the development of the national economy and the national tax revenue, thus affecting the government's reinvestment in education. It can be seen that it is far from enough to vigorously develop education and increase investment in education. Only through diversified investment channels can we fundamentally solve the problem of insufficient education funds.

Third, the misunderstanding of developing private education.

Under the planned economy system, China's school-running system is relatively simple, mainly in two modes: government-run and collective-run, which is difficult to meet the various requirements of society for education. At present, China's education expenditure accounts for 1% of the world's education scale, accounting for 22% of the world's education, accounting for a huge proportion. In the past, the principle of running a school was: relying on private education to run people's education well. Therefore, from 1986 to 2000, compulsory education developed supernormally, but at the expense of increasing the burden on farmers and enterprises. 1999 or so, when the State Council introduced the policy of reducing the burden, the first consideration was rural education. After stopping raising funds and collecting additional education fees, rural education funds are short by nearly 50%, teachers' salaries are in arrears for a long time, and school buildings cannot be expanded or maintained. The original intention of developing private education is to reduce the relevant investment by developing private education in cities, and put the saved funds into rural areas that are in greater need.

At present, there are the following misunderstandings about the development of private education in society: the "redundancy theory" that there is no need to run private schools with public schools; The "impact theory" that private schools impact public schools; Private schools are "profit theory" to make money; Skepticism that private education cannot last long, and so on. These are all manifestations of insufficient understanding of the position and role of private education in China's socialist education.

Private education refers to the activities of enterprises, institutions, social organizations, other social organizations and individual citizens to organize schools and other educational institutions for the society. The development of private education can break the old system of government running schools, establish a new diversified system of running schools with the participation of all sectors of society, effectively expand the investment in education of the whole society, rapidly increase the total amount of educational resources and promote the development of education.

Developing private education is also a powerful measure to break through the bottleneck of education investment. It is estimated that in the next decade, China will need about 50 billion yuan each year for the expansion of higher education and senior high school education. Among the increased government financial investment, the development investment of higher education and senior high school education may only be about 5 billion yuan each year, and the annual investment gap is more than 45 billion yuan. On the one hand, there is a shortage of government funds, on the other hand, there are abundant social funds. Enterprises, institutions, social organizations, individual citizens and overseas have a large number of funds that lack investment direction. According to a sample survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics, 10% of China residents' savings of more than 5 trillion yuan will be used for education. Therefore, only by mobilizing social forces to develop private education and accumulating education funds can we achieve a breakthrough in the bottleneck of education investment.

Private education has legal status and identity. On February 28th, 2002, the 31st meeting of the NPC Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress passed the Law on the Promotion of Private Education in People's Republic of China (PRC), Article 3 clearly pointed out: "Private education is a public welfare undertaking and an integral part of socialist education. The state implements the policy of active encouragement, strong support, correct guidance and management according to law for private education. People's governments at all levels should incorporate private education into the national economic and social development plan. " This provides a legal basis for the existence and development of private education. In the process of building a well-off society in an all-round way, the contradiction between the people's demand for the whole education development and the government's insufficient investment in education will exist for a long time, which provides a long-term foundation and premise for the development of private education.

Four. Suggestions on vigorously developing private education

Over the past 20 years of reform and opening-up, private education has made great contributions to China's education development in terms of increasing education supply, embodying education equity, improving education efficiency, expanding education freedom, relieving employment pressure and promoting education innovation, which has become an education scandal. Poverty? α jun 4𖱊⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄⒄ Run away? Looking for lies and scars? Colorful scabbard ran away? ⒄ Gougu Tomb Meal? Cable TV? br & gt

In order to promote the healthy development of private education, compulsory education must adhere to government-led education, and private education is only a useful supplement to compulsory education; As non-compulsory preschool education, vocational education, high school education and higher education, private education will become an important part, and its proportion in vocational education may exceed that of public education. In order to effectively support the development of private education, the following suggestions are put forward:

(A) to overcome a series of one-sided understanding of private education. The administrative department of education should treat private education and public education equally, and even give more understanding and support. There are still many problems in some places' attitudes towards private education: First, they think that private education is not their own. Second, private education is to make money. The third is that private education and public education compete for students. Fourth, I feel that even public education can't be run well and managed badly. Then no matter how I manage private education, I don't have the financial resources to support private education. These understandings are all wrong and harmful to the development of private education. It should be pointed out that private education is sharing the educational responsibility for the government. As the administrative department of education, we should not only enthusiastically support private education, but also thank and reward private education.

(2) Implement the support policies promulgated by the state. Chapter VII of the Law on the Promotion of Private Education has made a series of provisions on the relevant policies of the state to support the development of private education: the people's governments at or above the county level may set up special funds to support the development of private schools; Private schools can be supported by measures such as funding, leasing and transferring idle state-owned assets; Private schools enjoy preferential tax policies stipulated by the state and can accept donations; When building or expanding private schools, the government should give preferential treatment in accordance with the relevant provisions on land use and public welfare undertakings; No organization or individual may charge any fees from private educational institutions in violation of laws and regulations, and so on. The administrative department of education should do everything possible to promote the implementation of these policies, especially in the following four aspects: First, land concessions. The land for running a private school shall be allocated according to public welfare undertakings and educational land. The second is tax incentives. Pre-tax deduction policy for entrepreneurs' investment in running schools should be implemented. Third, the policies of enrollment, teacher training and professional title evaluation should be treated equally with public schools. The fourth is to stop the overall funding of private schools.

(3) Proceed from reality and take effective measures to actively support the development of private education. Article 48 of the Regulations on the Implementation of the Law on the Promotion of Private Education stipulates: "In addition to the support and incentive measures stipulated in the Law on the Promotion of Private Education and these Regulations, the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may also formulate support and incentive measures to promote the development of private education in their respective regions according to actual conditions." According to this spirit, we can proceed from reality, introduce relevant policies and actively support the development of private education. First of all, we should give some financial support to private education. The second is the support of human resources. Using famous teachers and principals to support the development of private education. The third is to support the expansion of prestigious schools and strong schools. Without a certain scale, private schools can hardly survive. The administrative department of education should support private famous schools to become stronger and bigger through funds, policies, commendation and other measures, and form economies of scale as soon as possible.

(four) to promote the rational flow between private school teachers and public school teachers. The quality of teachers in private schools is not high and the team is unstable. The crux of the problem is that excellent teachers in public schools have worries and are unwilling to teach in private schools. Solving the free flow between teachers in public schools and teachers in private schools is an important problem that education administrative departments must solve in order to create a fair environment for educational development. Article 43 of the Regulations on the Implementation of the Law on the Promotion of Private Education stipulates: "The education administrative department shall establish and improve relevant systems with relevant administrative departments to ensure the reasonable flow of teachers between public schools and private schools." This provides a legal basis for the innovation of teacher personnel management system in private schools and public schools.

(5) Positioning the development direction scientifically. Public schools and private education should develop together, coexist and prosper together, and complement each other. However, we should focus on the development direction. "Grasping both ends and putting them in the middle" should be one of the development strategies of our 2 1 century education. The so-called "two heads" refers to nine-year compulsory education and key universities that have entered the "2 1 1" project, which should be mainly run by the government; All levels and types of education in central China should give full play to the great vitality of private education. In the future, private education in our state should follow the following development directions: First, the compulsory education stage. Adhere to the principle of government-run schools, especially in poor areas, the government should increase investment to ensure the right of school-age population to receive education, and at the same time improve the scientific and cultural level of the whole people by strengthening quality education. In areas with a relatively high level of economic development, such as Chuxiong City, in order to meet the wishes of some residents for their children to choose schools, some private schools can be developed appropriately. These schools can be boarding schools, experimental schools with small classes, special schools for foreign languages, arts and sports, and other high-cost schools with superior school-running conditions, as a supplement to public schools. The second is the high school education stage. Proceeding from reality, under the condition that the overall level of economic development is low, around the goal of doubling the scale of high school education in the future, it is suggested to refer to the successful experience at home and abroad, mainly through the development of joint or private high schools. The third is vocational education. Private schools should be an important force, and the government should encourage the extraordinary development of private schools to solve the education problem of unemployed young people in urban and rural areas.