Private schools refer to schools or other educational institutions run by social organizations or individuals other than state institutions with non-state financial funds.
Private schools have three obvious characteristics:
1. The organizer is not a national institution.
2. The funds come from non-state-owned financial funds.
3. Running a school for the society means recruiting students and students for the society and serving unspecified groups and individual citizens, not just recruiting people from a certain group, enterprise, industry, system and specific groups as students or students.
From the reality, the organizers of private schools mainly include: individual citizens, private enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households, collective economic organizations, state-owned enterprises, institutions and social groups. From the source of funds, there are personal self-financing, personal intellectual investment (no capital investment), personal and enterprise investment, fund-raising or shareholding, donation and so on. For a specific private school, the source of funds is not completely single, but a mixture of individual, collective and enterprise funds. At the same time, non-financial funds do not rule out the injection of state-owned assets.
Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Private Education Promotion Law.
Fortieth education administrative departments and relevant departments shall guide the education, teaching and teacher training of private schools.
Forty-first education administrative departments and relevant departments shall supervise private schools according to law, establish information publicity and credit file system of private schools, and promote the improvement of school quality; Organize or entrust social intermediary institutions to evaluate the level of running schools and the quality of education, and announce the evaluation results to the public.