Year-end feature
When presiding over the fifth collective study of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, the general secretary stressed that the education power we want to build is the ...... of a socialist education power with Chinese characteristicsIn the end, it is necessary to do a good job in running an education that satisfies the people
Running an education that satisfies the people is a vivid embodiment of the general secretary's people-centered development thinking in the field of education.
Education is the greatest livelihood of the people, affecting the social situation and the hearts of the people. For a country of more than 1.4 billion people, it is particularly important to make the sense of gain, happiness and security in education more fulfilling, more secure and more sustainable for thousands of households.
In 2023, the foundation of education and people's livelihood will become more and more solid, and the road will become broader and broader. Keeping in mind the entrustment of the general secretary, responding to the expectations of the masses for a better education, and striving to do a good job in education that satisfies the people, the "action answer sheet" of the education front continues to be written and more colorful.
A sense of gain——
The "scale" of education and people's livelihood
When presiding over the fifth collective study of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, the general secretary stressed that it is necessary to integrate the promotion of educational equity into all aspects of deepening the comprehensive reform in the field of education, narrow the gap between urban and rural, regional, inter-school and group education, and strive to let every child enjoy fair and quality education, and better meet the needs of the masses for "good education".
In the new era, in the face of diverse needs, improving the well-being of education and people's livelihood means not only solving the problem of "whether it is good", but also solving the problem of "whether it is good or not". "Sense of gain" has become a "yardstick" to test the work of education and people's livelihood.
At the beginning of 2023, a good news came, with the approval of ***, from the spring semester of 2023, the benchmark quota of public funds per student in compulsory education schools will be increased, and the average annual student in primary schools will be increased from 650 yuan to 720 yuan, and the average annual student in junior high schools will be increased from 850 yuan to 940 yuan, so as to support schools to implement the "double reduction" policy and improve the level of after-school services.
Increase funding - the state in the most direct way, to convey the resolute attitude of improving the quality of education and teaching and building a strong school education position.
This year, "high-quality and balanced" and "expanding excellence and improving quality" have become the loudest voices in basic education. The balanced development of compulsory education and the integration of urban and rural areas have reached a new level.
Who would have thought that a central school in a mountainous area could have a martial arts training hall with a total investment of more than 1 million yuan and 270 square meters?
This has become a reality at Miaoba Town Central School, Da'an District, Zigong City, Sichuan Province. In September this year, the school martial arts training hall, which is extremely rare in the entire southern Sichuan region, was put into use. The school has won nearly 100 medals in competitions above the provincial level, sent 8 outstanding team members to the provincial team, and cultivated two national youth wushu sanda champions. The use of the new training hall has strengthened the school's promotion of martial arts characteristics, and it is a microcosm of the high-quality and balanced development of Da'an basic education.
We have always regarded education as the greatest livelihood of the people, continuously increased investment in education, committed to running schools with characteristics, and sang the song of struggle to promote the high-quality development of education. The person in charge of the Da'an District Education and Sports Bureau said.
**The general secretary has always been concerned about the physical and mental health of children and adolescents. On May 31 this year, the general secretary emphasized during his inspection of Beijing Yuying School: "Physical exercise should start from an early age, and there should be more physical exercise, and there will be fewer 'little fat dun' and 'little glasses'." ”
This year, the Universiade and the Youth Association were held one after another, and the fruitful results of the integration of sports and education are inspiring. Outside the field, many secretaries and principals of grassroots primary and secondary schools said that the indispensable position of sports in education has been recognized and supported by the school, parents and students, and school sports has also become an important measure to promote the simultaneous development of "five educations", home-school coordination and the all-round growth of young people with the deepening of the integration of sports and education.
This year, the standardization of myopia screening flow, children and adolescents eye health screening, diagnosis, visual function analysis "monitoring" system and so on more and more perfect. In the Eye Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, every Wednesday, primary school students from Jinan Waihai Experimental School will focus on visual training. "Now parents, schools and hospitals have formed a good cooperative relationship to work together to protect children's eyes. Wang Diancui, the school doctor of the Waihai Experimental School, said.
The people live on food. How do you get students to eat well, well, and nutritious?This year, the canteen of Luoshan Central Primary School in Jinjiang City, Fujian Province was officially put into use, with a dazzling array of dishes such as stir-fried meat with celery, prawns, stewed potatoes with pork ribs, and stir-fried Chinese cabbage, and more than 800 teachers and students in the school solved the lunch problemIn Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, since the beginning of this year, the city has done a good job in the school canteen "Internet + Bright Kitchen Bright Stove" special key work to improve quality and efficiency and the creation of provincial food safety standardization school canteens, and all 19 counties and districts have built a county-level supervision platform for school canteens "Internet + Bright Kitchen Bright Stove", so that students can eat more at ease and parents can feel more at ease.
This year, the "double reduction" ushered in a key node. Since the official implementation of the "double reduction" policy in July 2021, it has lasted more than two years, and the results are obvious to all.
In 2023, the "double reduction" will be renewed. On October 15, the "Interim Measures for Administrative Punishment of Off-campus Training" was officially implemented. A month later, the first national off-campus training administrative law enforcement work site meeting was held.
In accordance with the law, we will resolutely implement the decision-making and deployment of "double reduction" and "strive to give play to the role of the rule of law in guiding, promoting and guaranteeing the governance of off-campus training", which is extremely clear. The rule of law will provide a strong guarantee for the high-quality promotion of the "double reduction" work, so that the "double reduction" will be stable and far-reaching.
In the past two years, the fees of off-campus training institutions have been in accordance with the rules, and the 'running away with money' that parents were most afraid of in the past has been much less. The quality of teaching and after-school services at the school also fully meet the needs of parents. Ms. Chen, a parent in Beijing, said, "I hope that the future 'double reduction' can better serve the all-round development of children." ”
Every branch and leaf is always about love. Every bit of the healthy growth of students is concerned about the hearts of educators.
Entering December, cold waves hit frequently, and rain and snow were mixed in many places. What should I do if my child goes to and from school?In Wuhan East Lake High-tech Development Zone, the school buses opened this year have played a big role. "It's so happy that my children are on the school bus and don't need me to ride an electric car to pick them up, and the wind and rain can't blow or rain. Ms. Hu, the student's parent, was overjoyed. In Beijing, the trial operation of the "commuting bus" this year will include primary and secondary school students in the scope of public transportation security, and the commuting problem of students in pilot schools has been effectively solved.
This year, more and more "key and small things" that the masses of the people are concerned about have been widely done in various localities to "warm their hearts and do practical things." One by one, the "little things" converge into the "big things" of the construction of an educational power.
Promote employment——
Education and people's livelihood "must answer questions".
Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood. College graduates are a valuable human resource for the party and the country.
**The general secretary attaches great importance to the employment of college graduates, and has made important instructions on related work for many times. In June 2023, when the general secretary of ** inspected Inner Mongolia, he once again emphasized the focus on the employment of college graduates and other groups.
Employment is a test of the school's ability to cultivate talents. Can we cultivate talents that meet the needs of the market?Can it provide "upgraded" "overpasses" for all kinds of students?In the face of the required questions, the education system handed over the Endeavor answer sheet.
For many college graduates in 2023, this year's job search path will not be easy.
In order to seize the sprint period for the employment of college graduates, from May to August, the Ministry of Education organized and implemented the "100-day sprint" action for the employment of college graduates in 2023 nationwide.
Because she has been preparing for the graduate school entrance examination, Park Linmei, a graduate of the School of Electrical Engineering of Harbin Institute of Technology, only started looking for a job in April this year. "Every time I apply for a job, I feel like I don't know the bottom of my heart", she quickly got help from the school, "the teacher taught me to revise my resume, recommended a number of jobs for me, and gave me guidance many times before the interview." In the end, Park Linmei joined the company as she wished.
As the new batch of graduates enters the job hunting season, not long ago, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Employment and Entrepreneurship of 2024 National Ordinary College Graduates", proposing 26 measures to implement the "2024 National Employment and Entrepreneurship Promotion Action for Ordinary College Graduates" to fully promote the employment of college graduates.
This year, vocational education has become more "learning, looking forward and running", the reform goals are clearer, and the system is more complete. The good news is that after years of hard work, the proportion of the number of students admitted to the vocational education college entrance examination in the enrollment scale of vocational colleges has increased from about 20% in 2014 to more than 60% in 2023.
Liu Yuhang, a graduate of Zhangqiu Secondary Vocational School in Shandong Province, is one of the beneficiaries. Liu Yuhang was very happy to find out the results of his vocational education college entrance examination: "In the spring vocational skills and knowledge test, I played well and was finally admitted to Shandong Institute of Arts and Crafts." In his alma mater, in the past three years, more than 600 students have passed the vocational education college entrance examination to enter undergraduate schools, and more than 3,000 students have been promoted to vocational colleges. Lu Jiming, principal of Zhangqiu Secondary Vocational School, said: "Many students have found a development model that suits them and embarked on the road of becoming skilled talents. ”
This year, it has become a trend to build an innovation consortium led by leading enterprises, supported by universities and institutes, and coordinated by various innovation subjects. Beijing actively lays out and builds a common technology platform in the field of high-tech industries, and continuously connects the chain of production, education, research and applicationShenzhen Guangming City has introduced a number of large scientific device platforms, which are open to universities, scientific research institutions and enterprises to help cultivate top-notch innovative talentsThirty-three units, including universities, enterprises, national laboratories, national innovation research institutes for outstanding engineers, and associations, jointly initiated the establishment of the China Outstanding Engineer Training Consortium to build a high-quality engineer training and certification system ......The education model of integration of teaching and research, interdisciplinarity, integration of industry and education, collaborative education, and joint research is being rapidly implemented.
Subtly, students' employment competitiveness has been continuously enhanced. In Yunnan Energy Vocational and Technical College, the school-enterprise co-construction has opened up a "new track" for employment. Innovative measures such as professional docking industry, "order-based" training, talent counterpart output, and career planning training have improved the effectiveness of visiting enterprises and the matching degree of supply and demand. In June this year, Tang Jinjing, a student majoring in catering management of the College of Modern Service Industry, "employed after graduation" and "seamlessly" entered the first work of Yunnan Youbang Industrial Co., Ltd., which is a school-enterprise cooperative school.
In the first year, students will learn basic courses and theoretical knowledge such as university Chinese and English, and then enter the practical operation of the post at the beginning of the second year. "The combination of theory and practice has laid a solid foundation for me to quickly adapt to the change from school to society." ”
School Family Society——
A "new starting point" for education and people's livelihood
At the fifth collective study of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, the general secretary stressed that schools, families, and society should work closely together and work in the same direction, actively participate in the practice of strengthening the country through education, and jointly run the cause of building a strong country through education.
Education is about the fate of every child and the future of every family. This year, the Ministry of Education and 13 other departments jointly issued the "Opinions on Improving the Mechanism of School, Family and Social Collaborative Education", which further clarified the role of schools, families and society in the process of educating people, and provided guidance for the collaborative education of the three.
Five fingers into a fist, "school, family and society" synergy with an unprecedented joint force, together pointing to the word "education".
With the orderly progress of after-school services, everyone is happy for the implementation of the "double reduction", but Feng Peitang, the responsible inspector of Pingshun County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, found a problem in the supervision: the original intention of after-school services in primary and secondary schools to relieve parents' worries has become a reason for "lying flat" in the eyes of some parents.
In the remote area of Feng Peitang, where the vast majority of families have been farmers for generations, parents generally believe that education is the school's business, and teachers often report that parents do not cooperate in their work. In order to solve this "old and difficult" problem, under the suggestion of Feng Peitang, the central school opened a parent school, and tailored a teaching plan of "being a qualified parent" for parents in view of the current situation that peasant parents are busy with farm work, weak sense of family education, and low enthusiasm, and flexible learning time and visual learning content improve the enthusiasm of parents. Up to now, 53 and 90 parents of the two primary schools have been on the Outstanding Parents Honor Roll respectively, accounting for about 60% of the total, which has greatly improved the nurturing ability of the family environment.
The close linkage between schools and families has also allowed Rizhao City, Shandong Province to taste the sweetness of adolescent mental health work.
The exam is coming soon, my child and I are a little anxious, I am very interested in your psychological 'help group' course, can you come up with a 'help to help' on the topic of exam anxiety?When will the experts come to our community?Recently, the person in charge of the Education Bureau of Rizhao City, Shandong Province, who "helped" parents, received a request for help.
Such unimpeded and direct dialogue is not uncommon in local mental health education work. In recent years, Rizhao City has gradually explored and formed a new model of "school-family-social network" whole-environment integrated mental health education with the psychological brand of "Bangbang" as the carrier. Up to now, Rizhao City has opened 14 psychological services, achieved full coverage at the city and county levels, and provided full services for teachers, students and parents, served more than 5,800 students' parents, and successfully resolved 22 cases of high-risk psychological calls.
In recent years, mental health problems have gradually become a common social problem faced by countries around the world. Strengthening adolescent mental health education has become the consensus of the whole society.
In April this year, the Ministry of Education and 17 other departments jointly issued the "Special Action Plan for Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving Student Mental Health in the New Era (2023-2025)", which directly refers to the coordinated development of students' ideological and moral quality, scientific and cultural quality, and physical and mental health quality, and puts mental health work in a more prominent position.
The road of people's livelihood and the road of people's hearts.
Education is the hope of thousands of families for a better future. In 2023, education data and education highlights will depict a new chapter in the development of education and point to the grand goal of building a strong country in education.
China Education News, December 31, 2023, page 1
Author: Gao Yizhe, reporter of this newspaper.