The authority of the Ministry of Education responds to the advance of winter vacation in colleges and universities
Recently, at the press conference of the State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism "On Further Improving the Prevention and Control of Epidemic Situation in Winter and Spring", the Ministry of Education clearly responded to this topic. Regarding whether colleges and universities should take winter vacation in advance, all localities need to follow two principles.
1 The principle is that the education departments in various regions should not implement a "one size fits all" policy, but should determine it according to the specific development of the local epidemic situation.
The second principle is that local education departments should also consider the epidemic situation in the place where students are registered when making decisions.
Generally speaking, whether colleges and universities have a holiday in advance can be decided by themselves according to local conditions.
However, the education department encourages colleges and universities to organize students to complete all academic courses in an orderly manner under the premise of complying with the epidemic prevention and control policy, so as to ensure that the normal learning order of the school is not affected as much as possible.
Although it is not said that universities can decide whether to leave school early, the education department has also put forward strict requirements for epidemic prevention and control.
For example, we must strictly implement the campus access management system and never allow random access to the campus.
In addition, we should also pay attention to the gathering places in schools and actively implement local epidemic control policies. At the same time, colleges and universities should also formulate corresponding treatment plans for sudden epidemic infections.
Once there is a campus infection, we must absolutely control the spread of the virus to the society, and we must find it in time and isolate it as soon as possible.