Tang Min: We Should Not Rush To Implement 12 Years Compulsory Education.

2012 National Two sessions(NPC and CPPCC) The people's network and the State Council Counselor's Office jointly launched the "two sessions deep reading" column, and invited the counselor to express his views on the current hot issues. On March 3rd, counselor Tang Min of the State Council interpreted the educational hot topics such as educational investment, 12 years compulsory education, the difficulty of university graduates' employment, the decline of the proportion of students in rural areas and the difficulty of going to school for migrant children.

Education investment to 4% is not difficult.

The difficulty is to equitably allocate educational investment.

National medium and long term Educational planning The outline clearly states that in 2012, the goal of achieving national fiscal expenditure on education will reach 4% of GDP. Tang Min believes that it is not difficult to add money, but the difficulty is how to divide the money and make education more equitable. What he is more concerned about is how to allocate money after 4% and how to really allocate it. The money should be used for timely relief rather than icing on the cake. Teaching facilities in poor areas, especially software, are spent on the poor. He said, "how can we ensure this? I think the most important thing is to be open and spanparent, and let the people of the whole country know how the money is allocated. Education budget is the most common concern of the people. After more education, we should ensure the rational use of educational funds and reduce the injustice and inequity of education. At the same time, Tang Min also expressed his concern: more investment in education, if not handled well, it will exacerbate the inequity of education.

12 year compulsory education is not easy to do at once.

First, solve the problems of poor students and high school students in rural areas.

"It's better to go all the way to do the compulsory education in 12 years than to cut it across the board." Tang Min talked to reporters about his own thinking. "Japan, a high-income country, has only recently implemented 12 years of compulsory education," he said. China should not rush to carry out 12 years of compulsory education. I think the urgent task is to solve the problem of poor families and rural children spending too much in high school. First of all, 12 years of free education for students in poor families, or through grants, etc., will help families who are poorer and have the ability to go to school. Secondly, it is possible to consider free tuition for students from poor families in vocational high schools or secondary schools. Generally speaking, there are more rural children in this type of school. Relatively speaking, these students can create wealth for society earlier. Step by step and finally do it all. "

Tang Min believes that the implementation of 12 years of compulsory education, the bigger problem is financial input. At present, the state does not have so much financial resources to ensure that so many people get 12 years of free education. It is not so easy for a country to do 12 years of exemption immediately.

Enrollment expansion is difficult for university graduates.

No expansion of enrollment, secondary school graduates employment difficulties

"Enrollment expansion is reflected in the difficulty of university graduates' employment. If we do not expand enrollment, it will be reflected in the employment difficulties of secondary school graduates, which is the employment problem of the whole society as a whole." Tang Min said, if there is not enough job opportunities, students will lose their jobs when they graduate from junior high school, high school or college.

Tang Min said that to solve the problem of College Students' employment, it is necessary to solve the following problems. First, how to speed up the reform of the economic structure and provide more employment opportunities for highly educated students. Second, we should reform the teaching contents and ways of education. Because of the expansion of university enrollment, social needs have changed dramatically. Reform in Education But they didn't catch up. Therefore, it does not mean that the society does not provide employment opportunities for university graduates, nor does it mean that the society does not need university students, but that many college students are too high and low to meet the needs of the society. Therefore, to solve this problem fundamentally, we must speed up reform, especially education reform.

A misreading of "a decline in proportion of rural students in Colleges and universities"

The proportion of rural students in the country is on the rise.

In 2011, "poor children are hard to come out" became the hot words of education in the year. Some articles point out that in this era, "the poor children are hard to come out", the educational resources are seriously unbalanced, and the opportunities for rural students to enter the prestigious schools are less and less.

Tang Min pointed out that "the decline in proportion of rural students in Colleges and universities" is a misreading. According to the survey of scholars, the proportion of rural students in key universities is decreasing. However, the proportion of rural students from all over the country is rising, especially in the batch admission and junior colleges. Statistics from the Ministry of education also show that from 1989 to 2008, the proportion of rural freshmen in China's universities increased year by year, from 43.4% in 1989 to 53% in 2003, compared with that in urban areas. However, the proportion of rural students is decreasing in 211 or 985 universities invested in Tsinghua University and some countries. This reflects the current enrollment mode of "one examination and lifelong determination", which is unfair and unfair to rural students.

Children of migrant workers can not enter public schools.

Expansion of school investment

People's network recently launched the 2012 two sessions survey shows that 90% of netizens believe that for migrant workers, children's education needs to be resolved. 90% of people think that the key to solve this problem is to go to school, and examinations do not set a threshold for their children.

As for how to solve the problem of migrant children going to school, Tang Min talked about his own view: "there are still a considerable number of migrant workers whose children are still hard to attend school. Many schools in the cities are reluctant or unable to get enough. If the public schools want to collect the children of migrant workers, urban schools will need to expand. Under the circumstances that public schools have no conditions to recruit all the children of migrant workers, some migrant workers' children schools should continue to do so. All parts of the country should support some of these schools from education funding. "

Entrance examination opportunities for students from different provinces and municipalities are unfair.

Universities should be allocated places according to the number of people everywhere.

In some areas, students may have more than a few tests to get the same learning opportunities than those in some areas. This may be unfair to learning opportunities.

Tang Min believes that this is caused by the college entrance examination system itself. The original college entrance examination questions were unified nationwide, and now the autonomous proposition accounts for more than half of the provinces. Here it involves some big cities, especially large cities like Beijing, with a large number of universities and a large number of university admissions places, so the scores will be relatively low. To solve this problem, the first thing to be solved is the allocation of university places in various places. For example, Peking University is the Peking University in the whole country. It should roughly distribute the number of places according to the distribution of the number of people everywhere, instead of getting so many places in Beijing.

Employment training for college students is necessary.

To cultivate college students' entrepreneurial consciousness

Nowadays, many college students choose to take part in all kinds of employment training before employment, so as to enhance their actual combat capability. Tang Min agreed with the choice of college students.

Tang Min believes that it does not mean that college students can adapt to work naturally when they go to university. Job hunting and job hunting have their own skills. They need some training for understanding jobs and employment. He said that employment training for college students is necessary, and not only in China, but also in the whole world. Many western countries have not only training, but also specialized offices to help students find jobs, learn and train.

Tang Min also pointed out that it is necessary to cultivate college students' sense of entrepreneurship in universities. He said that entrepreneurial awareness does not mean starting business in schools, because only a few people can do so. Most people may work for a while before they are ready to start their own business. However, if there is no seed for entrepreneurship in the University, he may have this opportunity after work, and he will miss the opportunity because he has no sense of entrepreneurship.