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On January 22, 2024, the Henan Provincial Department of Education and other four departments jointly issued the "Implementation Measures for Publicly-funded Education for Normal Students in Henan Province", with a view to attracting more outstanding talents to teach.
The "Implementation Measures" stipulate that candidates with household registration in Henan Province, with the general college entrance examination registration conditions and the physical conditions for teacher qualifications can apply for the public-funded normal students.
Publicly-funded normal students enjoy the policy of "two exemptions and one supplement" during the training period, that is, tuition and accommodation fees are exempted, and a certain living allowance is given.
After graduation, the publicly-funded normal students will teach in primary and secondary schools in the targeted counties (cities) for no less than 6 years.
Publicly-funded normal students who work in urban schools should teach in rural compulsory education schools for at least one year.
Publicly-funded normal students who pass the vocational ability test of training colleges and universities when they graduate can be exempted from the examination to recognize the national primary and secondary school teacher qualifications.
The most eye-catching article in the "Implementation Measures" is: "Publicly-funded normal students can apply for full-time master's degree or ordinary college promotion in our province during the training period".
Prior to this, the old version of the policy on publicly-funded normal students clearly stipulated:
Regardless of whether it is a bachelor's degree or a junior college, publicly-funded normal students, they must return to their place of origin to teach in time after graduation. It is forbidden for undergraduate students to apply for graduate studies or junior college students to participate in the post-secondary education at the graduation stage of the first degree.
If you want to continue your studies, you can study for a part-time Master of Education degree without examination after one semester or one year of teaching according to the agreement.
The original intention of the old version of the policy on publicly-funded normal students is to maximize the training efficiency of publicly-funded normal students, so as to shorten their training cycle and reduce the financial burden on the country.
After all, the state has invested a lot of human, financial and material resources in the process of training publicly-funded normal students, and it is expected to maximize the benefits of these investments as soon as possible.
At the same time, such regulations also fully considered the psychological expectations of people at that time, and were generally recognized and acquiesced by parents and candidates.
However, with the progress of society and the intensification of competition, more and more people are no longer satisfied with their undergraduate degree and hope to continue their postgraduate studies.
Especially in today's information era, new technology, new ideas, and new ideas are constantly emerging, and many undergraduates realize that their knowledge reserves are still insufficient, and they need to improve their academic qualifications and professional skills to enhance their competitiveness in the future society.
Therefore, in recent years, the number of publicly-funded normal students breaking contracts has increased, and even increased several times.
Most of the cases with the largest number of contract defaulters were for full-time graduate students.
In order to improve the performance of publicly-funded normal students, in the past few years, a series of measures have been taken to solve this problem.
On the one hand, we have intensified the publicity and education of publicly-funded normal students, so that they can more clearly understand their responsibilities and missions. At the same time, it has also strengthened the management and supervision of publicly-funded normal students, and those students who violate the regulations will be dealt with in strict accordance with relevant laws and regulations.
On the other hand, ** also realized that blocking is better than sparse. Blindly restricting and prohibiting will not solve the problem at the root.
Therefore, Henan Province has formulated an incentive policy in the "Implementation Measures" to allow publicly-funded normal students to apply for master's degree in the training cycle.
The introduction of this policy aims to guide students to plan their career development more rationally by providing more opportunities and choices, and reduce the phenomenon of blindly breaking contracts.
Of course, incentives are only one way to solve the problem, and they need to be coordinated with other measures to be most effective.
This time, Henan Province ** stipulates that when applying for a master's degree, publicly-funded normal students need to be approved by the administrative department of the student's place of origin and sign a relevant agreement, promising to return to the place of origin to teach after graduating from the master's degree, and the teaching time shall not be less than six years.
In addition, the state no longer provides any subsidies during the graduate school period.
Why not turn the trend of breaking the contract into a good and achieve a win-win situation for the country and the candidate?
Old Teacher Tips
1.What are the majors for publicly-funded normal students?
The majors enrolled in government-funded normal students are closely linked to the primary and secondary school curriculum, and they cover education (e.g., pedagogy, primary education, pre-school education, and special education), Chinese and Chinese (e.g., Chinese language and literature), Chinese foreign language and literature (e.g., English), and mathematics (e.g., mathematics and applied mathematics).
In addition, there are majors in history, geographical sciences, chemistry, biological sciences, ideological and political education, physics, and psychology.
2.How to get a job for publicly-funded normal students?
Although the graduation package for state-funded normal students is allocated, many parents and students are worried about whether they will be assigned to teach in rural areas after graduation.
In fact, there is no need to worry too much about this, because the employment of state-funded normal students is mainly through the method of "two-way choice + bottom-up" to implement the teaching school for students.
What is Bi-Way Choice?
In short, students are free to choose their preferred schools and positions in their own place of origin, and then conduct interviews.
Take Beijing Normal University as an example: during the "two-way choice" period, publicly-funded normal students only need to return to their own province of origin to teach, and do not need to be precise to the district or county. Moreover, the two-way choice of schools covers almost all the list of excellent primary, junior and senior high schools in the province, and there are many choices for normal students, and they can interview many schools, and most of the students basically stay in the provincial capital and economically developed areas.
Bottom line: as long as you don't break the contract, you can apply for a job anywhere in the province.
What is Fall?
The bottom line is the last guarantee. For publicly-funded normal students, the bottom line is to ensure that they have a job after graduation. In the unlikely event that you are unable to find the job you want, your alma mater and local education board will provide you with a job assignment in a timely manner. This is not only a guarantee, but also a responsibility.
This "bottom-up" is a bit similar to the protection of your parents, so that you have no worries. And this "bottom" is not arbitrary, it requires you to obey the arrangement, go to the designated place, and do not choose at all. After graduation, you need to return to your place of origin, accurate to the district and county, and this is where the binding force of the bottom line lies.
3.Can a publicly-funded normal student change his major?
OK. In accordance with the regulations of the university, state-funded normal students can choose a second major within the scope of the normal major. For example, Shaanxi Normal University clearly states that publicly-funded normal students can choose a second major within the scope of the normal major in accordance with the methods and procedures stipulated by the school.
4.Do publicly-funded normal students have to return to their places of origin to work after graduation?
Not necessarily. Publicly-funded normal students who meet one of the following conditions can apply for inter-provincial teaching:
Volunteer to teach in primary and secondary schools in remote poor and ethnic minority areas in the central and western regions;
During the period of study, one or both parents have moved to teach outside the province;
Those who have already registered their marriage before graduation and need to move to teach in a primary or secondary school where their spouse is located.
5.If I was not admitted as a publicly-funded normal student during the college entrance examination, can I still enter after admission?
OK. There is a policy for entry and exit of state-funded normal students, and outstanding students who are not majoring in normal majors can transfer to the normal major within two years of enrollment within the enrollment plan of state-funded normal students approved by the Ministry of Education and the school. After signing the agreement, the school will return the tuition and accommodation fees according to the relevant standards, and reissue the living allowance back.
6.Apart from Henan, do other provinces have similar policies?
In 2019, Shandong Province promulgated the Implementation Measures for Publicly-Funded Education for Normal Students.
The "Implementation Measures" mentions that publicly-funded normal students who apply for full-time master's degree during the training period must be approved by the education administrative department of the city of targeted employment before registration, and sign a supplementary agreement, promising that the graduate students will return to the targeted employment city to engage in rural education and teaching for no less than 6 years after graduation, and can retain the status of publicly-funded normal students until graduate graduation. During the period of master's degree study, they are not entitled to the subsidy of public education funds.
Similarly, publicly-funded normal students who are eligible for promotion and exemption must also be approved by the education administrative department of the city of targeted employment, and can be exempted after signing a supplementary agreement, promising to return to the city of targeted employment to engage in rural education and teaching for no less than 6 years after graduation.
The "Implementation Measures" allow publicly-funded normal students to apply for master's degree in majors related to primary and secondary education and teaching, but to study abroad for master's degree or management and other majors unrelated to primary and secondary education and teaching, as well as to apply for doctoral students, are not supported.
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