In the early 1990s, more than 400,000 people in Shaanxi alone applied for the adult college entrance examination every year, which was as grand as the college entrance examination. With the continuous increase of the gross enrollment rate of general higher education in 15 years, the registration scale of adult education has shrunk year by year. From 20 1 1 to 20 14, the number of applicants for the adult college entrance examination in Shaanxi dropped from 97,000 to 57,000, almost at the rate of 1 10,000 per year. In 20 years, the scale has been reduced by nearly 10 times.
At the same time, the admission score has dropped again and again, so that it can't be lowered any more, and the unified examination has lost its meaning of choice.
At present, some provinces in China have cancelled the adult college entrance examination. What is the next step of adult college entrance examination?
10 year1On October 24th, it rained in Xi 'an. At 8: 30 in the morning, at the entrance of the High School Attached to Chang 'an University on Chang 'an Road in Xi 'an, Zhang Lin, 35, is preparing for the first exam of 20 15-the Chinese exam. Many young people who took the exam with him are technical secondary school students who graduated in July this year. Like most people who take adult exams, Zhang Lin hopes to have better opportunities at work after his education is upgraded. "After graduating from high school, he entered a technical school to learn technology. After graduation, he became a grass-roots worker, but as he grew older, he felt that the secondary school diploma was not enough."
This year's adult college entrance examination is slightly higher than last year, but it is not really warming up.
A total of 94 colleges and universities enrolled students in Shaanxi this year's National Adult College Entrance Examination, including Radio and TV University, Staff University, Vocational and Technical College, Management Cadre College, Education College and Adult Education College approved by the Ministry of Education.
There are three types of adult college entrance examination enrollment: from high school to undergraduate (referred to as junior college), from high school to junior college (referred to as junior college), and from junior college to undergraduate (referred to as junior college). There are three forms of study in school: full-time, part-time and correspondence. The shortest time for full-time study is four years, two years and two years in junior high school. The shortest part-time and correspondence study time is five years in junior high school, two and a half years in junior high school and three and a half years in junior high school.
According to the relevant data of Shaanxi Examination Center, from 20 1 1 to 20 14, the number of applicants for adult college entrance examination dropped from 97,000 to 57,000, almost at the rate of more than 100 per year. This year, the number of applicants in Shaanxi Province is 640 17, which is 6,553 more than last year, with an increase of 1 1.4%.
He Laoshi, who has been engaged in adult college entrance examination training for more than 20 years, analyzed that "the college entrance examination is getting colder year by year, which is the general trend. Although the number of students has increased this year, it has not really warmed up. The growth point is mainly the academic requirements of university graduates. "
As soon as the score line drops again, the unified examination has lost its meaning of choice.
The attraction of adult college entrance examination has declined, and the number of applicants has decreased, which is the dilemma that adult college entrance examination is currently facing. Wang Manxiang, dean of the School of Continuing Education of Northwest University, said that the adult college entrance examination pays too much attention to academic qualifications, which has led to the current predicament. He believes that adults should continue to pursue higher education to meet people's skills and vocational education needs, not to obtain diplomas. "Many training institutions in the market that promise to pay for academic qualifications are aimed at the pain point of academic qualifications."
In addition, the admission scores of adult college entrance examinations are also decreasing. Take Gao Qi University as an example, there are three courses to be tested, with a total score of 450, and the score of 20 14 for Shaanxi Culture is 120. In 20 14, the number of applicants for Shaanxi adult college entrance examination was about 57,000, and the final enrollment was nearly 47,000, with an admission rate of over 80%.
Professor Yan Jichang of Tsinghua University once said, "quite a few provinces have more adult college entrance examination enrollment plans than the number of applicants, and the scores have dropped again and again, so that they can't drop any more, and the unified examination has lost its meaning of choice."
"The senior high school entrance examination diploma is worthless." He Laoshi told the Huashang Daily reporter, "In the past, a specialist was overwhelmed. It's different now, and the recognition of the test is not as good as that of the self-test, so there are fewer and fewer people taking the test. "
The Ministry of Education has not issued a "timetable" for the online transmission of "the cancellation of the senior high school entrance examination on 20 16"
Recently, a "New Education Reform Plan of the Ministry of Education" went viral on the Internet: "It is decided that from 20 16, the Ministry of Education will reform the current adult education in China (including correspondence, distance and TV universities), and merge the original adult higher education qualifications that took the adult college entrance examination in June of 5438+00 with TV universities and distance network education to form a new adult education model-renamed as continuing education. In the future continuing education, students are required to take the adult college entrance examination in June 5438+ 10 every year, and they also need to take two final exams every year, and they need to complete online learning courses and homework. Students must complete credits to graduate. "
"At present, I have not received a clear notice to cancel the 20 16 adult college entrance examination." He Laoshi said.
The reporter of Huashang Daily found that the "three-education integration" scheme of adult education, distance education and TV University has a long history. As early as 2007, the Ministry of Education proposed that modern distance education pilot colleges and universities should make full use of modern information technology and gradually transition correspondence education to modern distance education. 20 12 unifies the policies and basic requirements of various degree continuing education, and unifies the style and content requirements of academic certificates. 20 15 the department of vocational education and adult education of the Ministry of education once again mentioned promoting the comprehensive reform of continuing education in colleges and universities in its annual work focus. Although "canceling the national unified adult college entrance examination" has been written into the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan (20 10-2020), the Ministry of Education has not issued a specific operational guiding plan. In other words, there is no specific timetable for how to reform the recruitment method of the joint entrance examination.