Chao News Commentator Lu Haitao.
Information**. Source: Visual China.
I took less than 10 classes, and now I can't find anyone, and the money won't come back. According to the "Rule of Law**" report, recently, a number of well-known non-academic training institutions are suspected of thunderstorms, employee salaries have been suspended, and parents have no way to refund. Off-campus training institutions are frequently staged "difficult to refund" and "run away with money", where does the money go?How can I get back?Some parents felt "hurt".
In response to off-campus training institutions, relevant departments have previously issued relevant policies and built platforms to avoid parents' money being "tricked". On March 13, 2023, the Ministry of Education and the China Consumers Association issued a reminder for off-campus training, reminding parents to complete the training payment through the "National Integrated Platform for Supervision and Service of Extracurricular Education and Training", and not to pay the training fee to any account other than the pre-charged fund supervision account by transfer or cash. The platform was officially launched on July 24, 2023. At present, local education administrative departments at all levels have been able to carry out daily supervision, risk verification, real-time tracking and scheduling management of off-campus training institutions settled on the platform. However, in practice, many training institutions do not specifically mention the regulatory platform when charging fees, and many parents themselves do not know about this regulatory platform, which has caused many potential risks.
To protect parents' money, we must first make the platform that has been built really work.
Through this platform, the last course platform will transfer money to the training institution, which can effectively protect the rights and interests of parents. However, it is undeniable that the "National Integrated Platform for Supervision and Service of Extracurricular Education and Training" has led to a lack of understanding among parents due to problems such as insufficient publicity in the process of specific implementation. Many parents also lack risk awareness and screening ability, and choose to transfer the money directly to the account of the training institution, or even to the sales staff personally. In addition to publicizing and popularizing relevant knowledge for more parents, we should also strengthen the platform's regulatory capabilities and expand coverage. According to reports, at present, the "National Comprehensive Platform for Supervision and Service of Extracurricular Education and Training" is still being gradually improved and constructed, and one of the most important tasks is to absorb more extracurricular training institutions. But the problem now is that, on the one hand, it is not mandatory for off-campus training institutions to enter the platformOn the other hand, it also depends on whether the institution's own qualifications meet the entry criteria. Therefore, it is necessary to further promote the participation of off-campus training institutions and make the platform more supervised.
Of course, the various problems in the supervision of off-campus training institutions cannot be expected to be solved through a single platform. In addition to the more prominent problem of capital supervision, it is more important to straighten out the regulatory system and mechanism of off-campus training institutions, so that the development of off-campus training institutions can better serve the high-quality development of education, and implement the "double reduction" deployment for a long time.
At present, the supervision of off-campus training institutions involves multiple subjects, and the situation is different in different places in terms of regulatory standards and procedures, facing problems such as imperfect law enforcement mechanisms, lack of guarantee of law enforcement forces, and unsmooth law enforcement processes, and there are also some problems in the coordination and cooperation between the education department and other management departments. For example, the county-level education administrative departments themselves do not have many manpower, and it is difficult for the training institutions with a large number of names in the market to carry out daily supervision and increase the frequency and density of supervision. Therefore, it is more necessary to explore how to better regulate and strengthen supervision within the legal framework.
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