It is understood that recently, with the consent of the State Council, the Ministry of Education, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly issued the Plan for Popularizing High School Education (20 17-2020), which systematically designed and planned the popularization of high school education in China during the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan period.
Lv Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, said that popularizing high school education is an important measure to further improve the comprehensive quality of the people and build a powerful country with human resources after popularizing nine-year compulsory education, which is of great significance and far-reaching influence. High school education is an important part of the national education system, and it is a critical period for students to move from adulthood to adulthood, form personality and develop independently.
Popularizing high school education is not only an inevitable choice for China's education to develop to a new stage, but also an objective requirement for building a well-off society in an all-round way and economic and social transformation and upgrading. The "Plan to Attack the Hard" clearly puts forward that on the basis of ensuring the priority development of compulsory education, it is necessary to promote the popularization of high school education and meet the needs of school-age young people to receive high school education. In order to ensure the realization of the goal of popularization, the research plan puts forward four key tasks and six main measures.
These four key tasks include:
The first is to improve the level of popularization. The key point is to improve the popularity of areas with weak educational foundation, especially areas with low gross enrollment rate of high school education, improve the opportunities for special groups to receive high school education and solve academic problems.
The second is to optimize the structural layout. The key point is to increase the enrollment ratio of secondary vocational education, actively support private education, rationally plan the school layout, run necessary township high schools well, and provide more choices and convenient opportunities for students to attend school.
The third is to strengthen the guarantee of conditions. The key point is to strengthen the construction of school conditions, establish a reasonable cost-sharing mechanism, improve and implement the student financial aid policy, and build a long-term guarantee mechanism for the development of high school education.
The fourth is to improve the quality of education. The key point is to reform the talent training mode, enhance the selectivity and professional attraction of courses, improve the professional level of teachers and realize the popularization of quality.
The six major measures include:
First, expand educational resources. First, implement local responsibilities, require all localities to implement some construction projects, build, renovate and expand a number of schools, and especially require areas with low vocational education levels to focus on expanding secondary vocational education resources. Second, the state gives support to the development of high school education in poverty-stricken areas by organizing and implementing three major projects, namely, the construction project of ordinary high schools in counties with weak educational foundation, the transformation plan of ordinary high schools and the quality improvement plan of modern vocational education.
Second, improve the funding mechanism. First, establish a reasonable cost sharing mechanism. We will implement the investment mechanism for ordinary senior high schools, with financial input as the mainstay and other channels to raise funds as the supplement, and improve the investment mechanism for secondary vocational education, in which the government, industries, enterprises and other social forces raise funds according to law. Secondly, improve the financial input mechanism, requiring all localities to establish and improve the per capita funding system for secondary vocational schools and the per capita funding system for ordinary high school students. Thirdly, according to the mechanism of reasonable tuition sharing by the educated in the non-compulsory education stage, the tuition standard is determined and the dynamic adjustment mechanism is established. The fourth is to require all localities to formulate debt repayment plans for ordinary high schools. What happened before the end of 20 14 and has been included in the screening results of local government debts, shall be repaid according to the local government debt management policy.
Third, improve the policy of subsidizing poor students. We will implement the policy of exempting students from poor families from tuition and miscellaneous fees, such as establishing a card for ordinary high schools, gradually promote the exemption of tuition and miscellaneous fees for secondary vocational education, raise the national subsidy standard for secondary vocational education, actively promote free education for disabled students from poor families, and prevent a student from dropping out of school because of family poverty.
Fourth, strengthen the construction of teaching staff. First, the establishment should be approved reasonably to meet the needs of the popularization of college entrance examination and comprehensive reform, and the establishment of teachers should be approved according to the unified establishment standard of urban and rural areas, so as to supplement the shortage of teachers, especially subject teachers, for the school in time; The second is to innovate the supplementary mechanism, explore the way of government purchasing services, and solve the shortage of "double-qualified" teachers in secondary vocational schools; Third, strengthen the overall deployment of county teachers, explore the establishment of inter-school teacher sharing mechanism, make good use of teacher resources and strengthen teacher training.
Fifth, promote the diversified and characteristic development of schools. It mainly includes: first, deepen the curriculum reform of ordinary high schools, strengthen the construction of elective courses, and enhance the selectivity and applicability of courses; The second is to implement the integration project of production and education in vocational education, concentrate on building a number of high-level vocational education schools, and run a number of specialties with characteristics and advantages that meet the needs of local economic and social development; The third is to implement the integration of ordinary occupations, explore the development of comprehensive high schools, and establish a cooperation mechanism between ordinary high schools and secondary vocational schools; The fourth is to promote the reform of comprehensive evaluation of school education quality and change the tendency of evaluating education quality simply by the enrollment rate.
Sixth, improve enrollment management. First, improve the coordination mechanism of enrollment, establish a unified enrollment platform for secondary vocational schools and ordinary high schools, and effectively implement the requirements of general education; The second is to implement the method of allocating the enrollment places of high-quality high schools to junior high schools in the region reasonably, and improve the proportion of high-quality secondary vocational schools recruiting students from poor areas; The third is to further implement and improve the policies and measures for migrant workers' children to take high school exams in the local area; Fourth, it is strictly forbidden for public ordinary high schools to illegally enroll students across regions and beyond plans, and the enrollment management of private high schools should be strengthened according to law.
At the same time, in order to ensure the implementation of the goal and task of popularizing high school education, the "Key Research Plan" also puts forward requirements for organization and implementation. In the next step, we will further establish a working mechanism, strengthen guidance and inspection, urge all localities to implement the "attack plan", and do a good job in popularizing high school education, which is of great benefit to the country and the people.