On April 23, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission informed four online training institutions about illegal enrollment fees and other issues; On May 7th, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission issued the Circular on Problems Found in the Inspection of Off-campus Training Institutions during May 1st.
On May 10, the Bureau of Price Supervision and Competition of the State Administration of Market Supervision and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision launched a joint operation, imposing a warning and a fine of 2.5 million yuan on the two training institutions respectively.
Multi-sectoral cooperation to fill the regulatory gap
This round of Beijing's off-campus training institutions have a high level of governance. The Municipal Education Commission takes the lead, and the cooperative units also include municipal administrative departments such as market supervision and online information. The points of governance choice include not only hardware issues such as enrollment fees, advertisements, classroom safety environment, but also teaching organization issues such as course teachers, teaching content and class time, which basically covers all the points of contact between off-campus training institutions and parents and students. In the concrete implementation, we not only pay attention to the illegal activities in cyberspace, but also send inspection teams to investigate and deal with the on-site problems.
The different management functions of municipal administrative departments focus on the governance of off-campus training institutions, which fills the gap in the past that education departments could not take off-campus training institutions as the actual supervision of enterprises. On May 10, the Price Supervision and Competition Bureau of the State Administration of Market Supervision and the Beijing Municipal Market Supervision Bureau imposed the top penalty on the two training institutions.