According to statistics, in 20 1 1 year, the total number of college students enrolled in China was about 9.33 million. Among them, the number of ordinary high school graduates registered this year is basically the same as last year, and the number of previous applicants is 280,000 less than last year, a decrease of 15%. Although the total number of applicants for the national college entrance examination has decreased, there are still 12 provinces and regions where the number of applicants for the college entrance examination has increased compared with last year, and most of them are distributed in the western region.
20 1 1 year, colleges and universities nationwide enrolled 6.75 million students. Due to the increase of plans and the decrease of candidates, it is estimated that the national average admission rate will increase by nearly 4 percentage points this year, reaching 72.3%.
This year's college entrance examination has four main features:
First, crack down on cheating in exams to ensure that the college entrance examination is safe and orderly. The Ministry of Education put forward that cheating in exams should be dealt with under high pressure, demanding that it be found together, investigated together, handled together, and announced together, and it will never be soft and will never be tolerated. Local education departments should earnestly take responsibility. If they find or report, they should cooperate with relevant departments to investigate quickly. Once verified, it should be dealt with seriously. Those who fail to investigate and deal with the competent authorities, do not act or act slowly, should also be severely investigated and dealt with, and earnestly safeguard the credibility, fairness and justice of the education examination. The Ministry of Education has sent a multi-channel inspection team before the exam to conduct a special inspection on the preparations for the college entrance examination. The relevant departments of the Inter-Ministerial Joint Meeting of the National Education Examination Work cooperated closely to start the college entrance examination security mechanism of joint defense and fast break. This year, we will focus on cracking down on the use of radio equipment to collude and cheat inside and outside the examination room, using the Internet, mobile phones and other media to spread harmful college entrance examination information, intensify prevention and crackdown, strictly guard against organized group fraud, and resolutely safeguard examination discipline and order in the examination room.
The second is to strengthen macro-control and promote fair admission to higher education. 20 1 1 year arranged150,000 students to support the enrollment cooperation plan in the central and western regions, an increase of 30,000 students over last year. Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, etc. 15 supports provinces and cities to continue to arrange cooperation plans for eight central and western provinces and regions, including Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Anhui, Henan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and Gansu. Colleges and universities directly under the Ministry of Education continue to reduce the proportion of territorial enrollment plans, and the average proportion of territorial arrangement plans is 25%, which is 1. 1 percentage point lower than last year. All 2900 plans were transferred to the central and western provinces.
The third is to implement the outline of education planning and actively and steadily promote the reform of college entrance examination. This year, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Henan and Xinjiang, four experimental high school new curriculum provinces, implemented the comprehensive reform plan of college entrance examination for the first time, and 20 provinces across the country implemented the comprehensive reform of college entrance examination in combination with the new high school curriculum reform. This year, the pilot scale of individual enrollment in higher vocational colleges listed in the National Model Higher Vocational College Construction Plan has been further expanded. 159 universities in 25 provinces (autonomous regions) have arranged 59,000 separate enrollment plans, and the number of pilot universities and enrollment scale have doubled compared with last year; Sixty-two colleges and universities in four municipalities directly under the Central Government have arranged 23,000 higher vocational students. All provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities actively carry out pilot projects for classified enrollment examinations for ordinary undergraduate and higher vocational education. Some higher vocational colleges recruit graduates from the three schools by means of one-on-one recruitment, Zhejiang adopts "3+ technology" and Beijing adopts "3+ examination" for higher vocational enrollment. This year, more than 500,000 candidates will enter higher vocational education through various forms of examinations, accounting for more than 15% of the total enrollment plan of higher vocational education arranged by the state.
The fourth is to implement the "sunshine project" of college enrollment in depth to ensure fairness and justice. In March, the Ministry of Education held a conference on further promoting the Sunshine Project and 20 1 1 College Enrollment, carefully studied the spirit of General Secretary Hu Jintao's speech on "Implementing the Sunshine Project in College Enrollment" at the National Education Work Conference, summed up the experience of implementing the Sunshine Project since 2005, and made clear the next direction of efforts and measures this year. At present, the "Sunshine College Entrance Examination" platform of the Ministry of Education has publicized more than 66,000 students in four categories: students who walk, Selected Graduates in pilot universities, high-level athletes and art specialty students. The Ministry of Education requires education departments at all levels and colleges and universities to strengthen the discipline inspection and supervision of enrollment and seriously investigate and deal with all kinds of cases of favoritism and malpractice.
The college entrance examination is just around the corner, and the Ministry of Education requires all levels of education departments and examination institutions to strengthen cooperation with relevant parties and further improve the service for candidates. The majority of candidates should take the exam in good faith, abide by the exam rules, resist bad interference, and strive to exert their true and best academic level. Candidates and parents should know the policy information of the senior high school entrance examination through authoritative channels, conduct consultation and inquiry, and reflect relevant questions or opinions. 20 1 1 the national telephone number for reporting violations of the college entrance examination: the Ministry of Education 0 10-66096242, and the examination center of the Ministry of Education 0 10-82520029. All provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have also announced the telephone number for reporting violations of the college entrance examination, and have arranged special personnel to answer it. At the same time, the relevant departments solemnly warned social criminals not to violate the law. Those illegal acts, such as selling cheating equipment, practicing high-tech cheating, using so-called test questions, answer information, illegal enrollment intermediaries and so on, will be severely punished by law.