Changsha Evening News, Changsha, February 24 (full ** reporter Chen Liang correspondent Zhou Yao) The number of students is decreasing, what should kindergartens do? On the afternoon of the 23rd, Wangcheng District held the 2024 Spring Preschool Education Work Conference to summarize last year's work, analyze the problems existing in development, deploy the main work of the spring semester, and propose to plan in advance and scientifically respond to problems such as the reduction of students.
According to reports, in 2023, Wangcheng District will adhere to the principle of "grasping the implementation, promoting norms, improving the connotation, and running characteristics", strive to improve the conditions for running kindergartens, promote independent games in the whole area, continuously improve the quality of education, and creatively carry out various tasks. It was rated as an excellent district (county) for the connection between young and primary schools in Changsha City, two kindergartens were rated as excellent kindergartens for scientific connection work in Changsha City, 5 kindergartens were rated as first-class public parks in Changsha City, and another 25 first-class kindergartens and 11 second-class kindergartens were awarded in Changsha. At present, there are 32 preschool education projects at the provincial, municipal and district levels, and 3 cases have won good results in the typical excellent cases of kindergarten game activities released by the Hunan Academy of Education Sciences; The "Lei Xiaofeng" Super Cute Sports and Art Festival was wonderful, and children from 160 kindergartens actively participated.
Under the circumstance that the development of preschool education in Wangcheng has shown a good momentum, we must maintain a sober understanding, not only to see the remarkable achievements made, but also to see the existing problems. Zhu Can, head of the preschool education section of the Wangcheng District Education Bureau, said that under the trend of declining birth rate and urbanization, the source of students in kindergartens, especially rural kindergartens, continues to decline, and most of the supporting gardens in towns, especially in communities, are large in scale and densely distributed. In the future, the survival and development of these kindergartens may have great difficulties, and there may be a phenomenon of "urban congestion, rural idleness", "crowded real estate supporting parks, and idle other parks".
At the 2024 spring school opening work conference held in Wangcheng District recently, Zhang Hongyuan, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Wangcheng District Education Bureau, said that Wangcheng preschool education should scientifically respond to the problem of declining population birth rate, optimize the layout, integrate resources, and ensure that the coverage rate of inclusive kindergartens and the proportion of children in public kindergartens in 2024 will only increase; Focus on the "two pilots", actively cultivate independent game characteristic kindergartens, and scientifically and effectively do a good job in the connection between young and primary schools; Accelerate the development of smart preschool education, promote the reform of the first chain of children's services, and develop a number of leading demonstration project kindergartens.
For the problem of the decrease in kindergarten students, Zhu Can believes that the first is to consider the number of kindergartens and the demand for places from a macro and long-term perspective. According to the changes in the population size and structure in the region, timely field research, do a good job in the demand for entering the park, plan in advance, optimize and adjust the layout of public parks, and guide private parks to integrate resources and exit in an orderly manner; The second is to decompose the current surplus of places from the perspective of childcare integration. According to relevant policies, kindergartens with surplus and conditions are encouraged to enroll 2-3-year-old children, provide childcare services, and actively build an integrated childcare system.
In 2024, we will continue to take more powerful and effective measures to run preschool education that satisfies the people, promote the development of preschool education standards, connotation and quality, and create a 'quality preschool education' of the Wangcheng paradigm." Li Sheng, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Wangcheng District Education Bureau, said that this year will continue to do a good job in the renovation of real estate supporting kindergartens, and 2 new public kindergartens will be opened to support real estate, with a coverage rate of 91 inclusive kindergartensmore than 4%; Take the audit as the starting point, find problems in a timely manner, standardize the financial management of kindergartens, strengthen the supervision of funds in private kindergartens, and prevent risks. He reminded the kindergartens, in view of the reduction of students, enrollment difficulties and other problems, to make a timely prediction, if the kindergarten is ready to withdraw, such as suspension, co-operation, etc., to report to the education department in advance, properly handle the kindergarten children and teachers diversion and other issues.