The so-called arbitrary charges in primary and secondary schools refer to the act of launching charging items, expanding the charging scope and raising the charging standards without authorization in violation of the relevant laws, regulations and provisions of the state and provincial people's governments.
There are various forms of arbitrary charges in primary and secondary schools, and their manifestations mainly include:
First, some grass-roots education administrative departments and primary and secondary schools are influenced by "interest-driven". They recruit students who choose schools, run extra-long classes, make up missed lessons, distribute review materials indiscriminately, and collect sponsorship fees linked to students' enrollment in various names to make up for the shortage of public funds in schools, and some seek benefits for small groups.
Second, some grass-roots governments set up projects without authorization in violation of regulations, charging fees beyond the standard, and expanding the scope of fees, such as charging students additional education fees or raising funds through primary and secondary schools, collecting school construction fees, renovation fees, substitute teachers' salaries, production costs, raising funds to build roads (bridges), family planning fines, social security fees, social support fees, etc.
Third, some social departments, enterprises and institutions take the school as the market and students as the profit targets, and arbitrarily apportion, impose fines and collect arbitrary fees from the school, such as forcibly subscribing to newspapers and magazines, promoting insurance, school uniforms, food and school tools.
According to the statistics of local education administrative departments, primary and secondary schools collect fees by themselves, grass-roots governments and departments collect fees, and hitchhiking fees each account for about 50% of the fees. In recent years, some local governments collect fees in disorder, but some local grass-roots governments and departments still collect fees in disorder and hitchhiking.
● What are the channels for the masses to report arbitrary charges for education? Which departments will accept reports or complaints from the masses?
First of all, we should analyze the unreasonable charges in education in detail, and make clear what is unreasonable charges and what form they belong to. Generally speaking, what we usually call unreasonable charges in education mainly refers to unreasonable charges in primary and secondary schools, and of course it also includes unreasonable charges in other schools at all levels.
There are two kinds of unreasonable charges in education: one refers to the unreasonable charges of the school itself. Such problems can be reported to the local education authorities or the education discipline inspection and supervision departments, and the education authorities have the responsibility to stop and correct them. The other category refers to the government's arbitrary charges, or some departments, enterprises and institutions in society charge schools or students through schools, and charge them through apportionment or hitchhiking. Such problems should be reported to local government organs, discipline inspection and supervision departments or rectification departments, and the government should come forward to stop and correct them.
The behavior of arbitrary charges for education can also be reflected to the local price and other relevant departments. The relevant departments will promptly and seriously deal with the problem of complaints from the masses about arbitrary charges for education.
● What is the publicity system of education fees? What are its main principles and regulations?
In May 2002, the former State Planning Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education jointly issued the Notice on Printing and Distributing the Publicity System of Education Fees (J.J. [2002] No.792), requiring schools of all levels and types to establish the publicity system of education fees.
The "Notice" stipulates that schools should publicize the charging items, charging standards, charging basis (examination and approval authority and document number), charging scope, charging unit and complaint telephone number to students through bulletin boards, bulletin boards and publicity walls; Price, financial departments and education administrative departments at all levels should publicize the charging policies and regulations of schools at all levels and their adjustments to the society through newspapers, television, radio and other news media, and urge schools to do a good job in the publicity of education fees. All kinds of schools at all levels should strictly implement the charging items, standards and scope stipulated by the national and provincial people's governments. It is forbidden to "legalize" arbitrary charges such as ultra vires charges, ultra-standard charges and self-supporting project charges through publicity.
● What is the "open school affairs" system? What positive role has the openness of school affairs played?
The publicity of school affairs includes the publicity of school affairs and the publicity of off-campus affairs. Major decisions, major issues, teaching management, finance, logistics, professional title evaluation, model evaluation, housing allocation and other campus affairs are open to the majority of faculty and students, which can promote the honesty and self-discipline of school leading cadres, correct school decisions and fairness in handling affairs. Off-campus affairs, such as charging items, charging standards and fees. , enrollment policies and regulations, admission conditions, admission results, etc. By setting up bulletin boards, charging cards, holding parent-teacher conferences or campus networks, and enrolling students and their parents, we can further standardize school management and promote running schools and charging fees according to law.
The publicity of school affairs is an important supervision measure in the current work of controlling unreasonable charges in education, and it is also an important measure to promote schools at all levels to strengthen the construction of party style and clean government and anti-corruption work. The openness of school affairs has indeed strengthened the relationship between the party and the masses, between teachers and students, and between the education department and the masses. The supervision and restriction mechanism of power operation has been improved, and the consciousness of school leaders in managing schools according to law, teaching strictly and standardizing management has been enhanced; Stimulate the sense of ownership and democratic participation of faculty and staff; Enhance communication and understanding, resolve contradictions, and promote the stability of schools and society; It is helpful to improve the management level of the school and gradually bring the enrollment behavior and charging behavior into the institutionalized and standardized track. The publicity of school affairs is praised by the masses as "sunshine project" and praised by the masses and faculty.
● What is the significance and function of professional ethics evaluation in the education system?
Strengthening the construction of professional ethics, establishing a good image and improving and optimizing the environment for educational development are important measures of the education system. The appraisal of morals is generally organized by the government, and all levels of education, rectification, people's congress, CPPCC, news and other departments and units participate. The key point is to solve hot issues involving the vital interests and concerns of the masses, such as entrance examination, fees, teachers' morality and style. Appraisal activities are generally divided into four stages: self-examination, self-evaluation, mass appraisal, centralized rectification and improvement.
Carrying out professional ethics evaluation can further standardize the political behavior of educational administrative departments at all levels and the school-running behavior of schools at all levels; It can greatly improve the ability and level of cadres at all levels to fully implement the party's educational policy, enhance the awareness of honesty and self-discipline, service awareness and professional ethics of the teaching staff, and mobilize the enthusiasm of cadres and workers; We can further improve the management system and the restraint mechanism; It can solve the hot and difficult problems that the masses have strongly reflected in time.
At present, the education system of most provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China has carried out this work under the leadership of the local government. Judging from the actual effect, carrying out appraisal activities has played a positive role in promoting the sustained and healthy development of education.
● What is the significance and function of standardizing school activities through education fees?
It is a fresh experience created by Jiangsu Province in recent years to carry out "standardizing the activities of charging for running schools". Mainly by the provincial price department, the Department of Education jointly check and evaluate the charging behavior of primary and secondary schools in the province, requiring key middle schools, experimental primary schools, demonstration junior high schools and demonstration middle schools in various provinces and cities to demonstrate the unreasonable charging of governance education. Moreover, it does not engage in "lifelong system". If there is a problem of arbitrary charges in schools that have reached the standard, they will be downgraded and delisted.
The positive significance of this activity is that the education department has established a new incentive mechanism and applied it to every school to promote the school to further strengthen the standardized management of fees.
In practice, since 2002, preliminary results have been achieved so far. In the special governance, it is helpful to implement the work of controlling unreasonable charges in education to every school; In regulating fees, it is helpful to mobilize the positive factors of schools and promote their self-discipline awareness; In terms of supervision, the introduction of supervision outside the education system helps to ensure the quality of activities; In terms of system construction, it is helpful to establish a long-term mechanism to control unreasonable charges in education. For example, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province named 10 school as "school for regulating education fees", which played an exemplary role for other schools.
● What is the content, significance and function of the inter-ministerial joint conference system to control arbitrary charges in education?
In order to implement the requirements of the Second Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Fourth Clean Government Work Conference in the State Council, on May 6, 2003, the national inter-ministerial joint conference system for controlling arbitrary charges in education was established, led by the Ministry of Education and the the State Council State Council Office for Corrections, with the participation of seven ministries and commissions, including the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Audit Office and the General Administration of Press and Publication. The inter-ministerial joint meeting consists of a liaison group and an office, which is located in the Ministry of Education. The liaison group consists of department-level cadres sent by member units; The office is composed of staff sent by all member units, and centralized office is implemented.
The establishment of the inter-ministerial joint conference system has provided organizational guarantee and unified guidance for the national work of controlling arbitrary charges in education. Its establishment can give full play to the role of all aspects, fundamentally and comprehensively control unreasonable education fees, which is conducive to the in-depth management of unreasonable education fees. It marks that the national work of controlling unreasonable charges in education has formed a situation of joint management.
From a practical point of view, since the establishment of the inter-ministerial joint meeting, new progress has been made in the national work of controlling unreasonable charges in education. On June 26th, seven ministries and commissions in the State Council held a video teleconference to make arrangements for the nationwide work of controlling unreasonable charges in education, and then held a report meeting on the work of controlling unreasonable charges in education in Changchun, Guiyang and Nanchang for supervision. All provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government acted quickly, set up a joint meeting to control arbitrary charges in education, and intensified the work of controlling arbitrary charges in education.