What is universal high school education? It is predicted that by 2020, China will popularize high school education, and the gross enrollment rate will reach over 90%. By then, China will reach the level of developed countries in the index of high school education penetration rate.
Therefore, many people think that with the popularization of high school education, there is no need for the senior high school entrance examination. This is actually a misunderstanding of the policy. What the country should do is to popularize high school education by 2020. It should be noted that it is generally believed that high school education refers to ordinary high school education, which includes not only ordinary high schools, but also vocational education in high schools. Such as technical secondary schools, technical schools and vocational high schools.
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee put forward the task of popularizing high school education by 2020. Popularizing high school education is an important strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council based on the decisive stage of building a well-off society in an all-round way. The general idea of popularizing high school education is "government-led, filling shortcomings, paying equal attention to general education and vocational education, and paying attention to connotation". Paying equal attention to general education and vocational education here means that general high school education and secondary vocational education are developed as a whole, and vocational education is placed in a prominent position, so as to optimize the structure of high school education, promote the coordinated development of general high school and vocational education, and meet the diversified choice needs of students. It can be seen that the focus of popularizing high school education is to develop vocational education in high school.
According to China's current education development plan, education can be divided into different types, among which the high school stage is defined as ordinary high school education and secondary vocational education, which is determined according to China's talent demand. The functions of the two types of education are different, but some people have proposed to merge ordinary high school education with secondary vocational education, but from the current situation, this classification will not change in the short term.
As for the implementation of 12 compulsory education, the voice is very high, and there will be similar suggestions in the two sessions every year. There are usually two suggestions, one is to implement 12 compulsory education from preschool to junior high school, and the other is to implement 12 compulsory education from primary school to senior high school. In the long run, the implementation of 12 compulsory education can be expected. But at present, there is no national plan in this regard. At this year's meeting, the relevant person of the Ministry of Education made it clear that the conditions for extending compulsory education are not yet mature, and consolidating nine-year compulsory education is still the main task of education at present and in the future.