The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Educational Supervision System and Mechanism in the New Era

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 19th. Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Educational Supervision System and Mechanism in the New Era" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), and issued a notice requesting all regions and departments Conscientiously implement it in light of actual conditions.

The full text of the Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Educational Supervision System and Mechanism in the New Era is as follows.

Educational supervision is a basic education system stipulated by the Education Law. The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to education supervision. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, educational supervision has played an important role in supervising the implementation of educational laws and regulations and educational principles and policies, standardizing school-running behavior, and improving the quality of education. however, there are still outstanding problems such as imperfect institutions, insufficient authority, and inadequate use of results, which do not meet the requirements of educational reform and development in the new era. In order to deepen the reform of the educational supervision system and mechanism in the new era and give full play to the role of educational supervision, the following opinions are put forward.

General 1. requirements

(I) guiding ideology. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, we will fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the National Education Conference, closely focus on ensuring the priority development of education, implement the fundamental task of Lide and cultivate people, optimize the management system, improve the operating mechanism, and strengthen The use of results is a breakthrough, and the quality and level of educational supervision are continuously improved, promote relevant departments, local governments at all levels, schools at all levels and other educational institutions (hereinafter referred to as schools) to effectively perform their educational responsibilities.

(II) the main objectives. By 2022, a socialist education supervision system with Chinese characteristics will be basically completed with comprehensive coverage, efficient operation, authoritative results and strong accountability. In terms of supervision, we should build a hierarchical education supervision mechanism for local governments at all levels, and urge provincial, municipal and county governments to perform their educational duties. In terms of school supervision, we should establish a working mechanism of national overall formulation of standards, local organizations and implementation, and supervision of schools, so as to guide schools to continuously improve the quality of education. In terms of evaluation and monitoring, establish an education evaluation and monitoring mechanism with unified centralized management of education supervision departments and multi-party participation to provide a scientific basis for improving education management, optimizing education decision-making, and guiding education work.

2. further deepen the reform of education supervision and management system

(III) improve the establishment of educational supervision institutions. The State Council has established an Education Supervision Committee, with the leading comrades of the State Council in charge of education as the director, and the Minister of Education and the Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council assisting in education as the deputy directors. The members of the Education Steering Committee of the State Council include the Central Organization Department, the Central Propaganda Department, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Civil Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Natural Resources, The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the National Health Commission, the National Health, the National Health Commission, the Ministry of Emergency Management, the Ministry of Emergency Management, take on day-to-day work. The Ministry of Education has established the Governor and the Deputy Inspector General to be responsible for the implementation of specific work. All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) combine actual conditions and follow the above practices to strengthen the education supervision functions of local governments at all levels, straighten out the management system, improve institutional settings, innovate working mechanisms, enrich the education supervision force, and ensure that the institutions responsible for education supervision exercise their functions independently.

(IV) fully implement the educational supervision function. The Education Steering Committee of the State Council shall organize a comprehensive supervision once a year and carry out special supervision according to the needs. The Office of the Education Steering Committee of the State Council shall be responsible for formulating rules, regulations and standards for education supervision. Educational supervision institutions at all levels must strictly follow the ''Educational Supervision Regulations'' and other laws and regulations, strengthen the functions of supervision, supervision, evaluation and monitoring, and strengthen the supervision of the next-level government in performing educational duties, focusing on discovering problems, diagnosing problems, and supervising rectification. Ensure that the party and the country's education policies take root.

(V) give full play to the role of member units of the Education Steering Committee. Improve the working procedures of education supervision institutions at all levels, clarify the responsibilities of relevant units, establish a communication and liaison mechanism, and form a work pattern of unified coordination, division of labor and responsibility, and joint management. Relevant units should arrange special personnel to be responsible for contacting education supervision. The members of the Education Steering Committee of the State Council shall actively participate in the supervision and perform their due duties.

(VI) strengthen the guidance of local education supervision institutions at all levels. Higher education supervision institutions should strengthen the guidance and management of lower education supervision institutions. The annual work plans, major issues and supervision results of local educational supervision institutions at all levels shall be reported to the educational supervision institutions at the next higher level.

3. Further Deepening the Reform of Educational Supervision and Operation Mechanism

(7) Strengthen the supervision of local governments in fulfilling their educational responsibilities. We will improve the evaluation system for the government to perform its educational duties, and regularly carry out supervision and evaluation. Focus on supervision and evaluation of the implementation of major education decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, mainly including the implementation of school standards, the implementation of education investment and funding management, teacher establishment benefits, education poverty alleviation, and the implementation of major education projects. Educational supervision institutions at all levels should focus on the problems found in the supervision, supervise the implementation of rectification, and ensure that the supervision plays a role. Strengthen the supervision, evaluation and monitoring and review of the balanced development of compulsory education, and improve the supervision mechanism and assessment and accountability mechanism for dropout control. Organize special supervision on hot and difficult issues and key work in education, and carry out supervision on major educational emergencies in a timely manner.

(VIII) strengthen the supervision of schools. We should improve the policies and standards of school supervision, carry out regular supervision on schools, guide schools to develop their own characteristics and standards, and promote the all-round development of students' morality, intelligence, physical education, art and labor. Focus on supervising the implementation of the school's moral education, mainly including school party building and party building leading team building, education and teaching, scientific research, teacher ethics, resource allocation, education fees, safety and stability, etc. Guide the school to establish a self-supervision system and optimize the internal governance of the school. Improve the system of supervision responsibility area, implement normal supervision, and urge schools to standardize school-running behavior. In principle, the school (garden) director at the end of a term, to accept a comprehensive supervision. All localities should strengthen the omni-directional supervision of private schools.

(IX) strengthen and improve education evaluation monitoring. Establish and improve the monitoring system of education at all levels and types, guide and urge schools to follow the laws of education, and focus on the quality of education and teaching. Improve the evaluation and monitoring index system, and strengthen the evaluation and monitoring of the construction of school teachers, school conditions and education and teaching quality. Carry out the evaluation of kindergarten behavior, the learning quality of various disciplines of compulsory education, the ability of secondary vocational schools to run schools, and the ability of higher vocational colleges to adapt to social needs. Continue to implement higher education evaluation, carry out random inspections of doctoral and master's dissertations, and seriously deal with academic misconduct such as falsification of dissertations. We will actively explore the establishment of a working mechanism for educational supervision institutions at all levels to carry out educational evaluation and monitoring through the purchase of services by the government, entrusting third-party evaluation and monitoring institutions and social organizations.

(X) improve the ways and means of educational supervision. Vigorously strengthen the application of information technology means, and make full use of the Internet, big data, cloud computing, etc. to carry out supervision, evaluation and monitoring. Follow the law of educational supervision, adhere to the combination of comprehensive supervision and special supervision, the combination of process supervision and result supervision, the combination of daily supervision and random supervision, and the combination of open inspection and unannounced visits, and continuously improve the pertinence and effectiveness of educational supervision. Strengthen the overall management of education supervision, scientifically formulate supervision plans, control the frequency of supervision, and avoid increasing the burden on schools and teachers and interfering with the normal teaching order.

4. further deepen the reform of education supervision and accountability mechanism

(11) Improve the reporting system. Educational supervision institutions at all levels must form supervision reports to carry out supervision work, and make full use of government portals, news media, and new media to disclose to the public in an appropriate manner and accept the supervision of the people. The implementation of the Party Central Committee and the State Council's education decision-making and deployment and violations of relevant education laws and regulations should be exposed in the news media.

(12) Standardize the feedback system. Educational supervision institutions at all levels shall timely feedback the supervision results to the supervised units, feed back the existing problems item by item, issue rectification decisions and put forward rectification requirements.

(13) Strengthen the rectification system. Educational supervision institutions at all levels should urge the supervised units to firmly establish the sense of responsibility that "problems must be rectified and rectification must be in place", and earnestly maintain the seriousness of supervision. If the rectification is not in place or in time, a supervision form shall be issued and rectification shall be made within a time limit. The supervised unit shall comprehensively rectify the problems, report the rectification results to the education supervision institution in a timely manner and announce the rectification situation to the public. The competent department of the supervised unit shall guide and urge the supervised unit to implement the rectification opinions, and shall be jointly and severally liable for ineffective rectification.

(14) Improve the review system. Educational supervision institutions at all levels shall establish a "look back" mechanism for the supervised matters within their administrative areas, and timely review the rectification of problems found by the supervision of higher-level and higher-level educational supervision institutions, so as to grasp the rectification situation at any time and prevent the problem from rebounding.

(15) Implementation of the incentive system. Local governments at all levels should commend the supervised units and relevant responsible persons with excellent educational supervision results, and pay attention to understanding the educational supervision results and rectification in policy support, resource allocation, assessment, appointment and removal, rewards and punishments of leading cadres.

(16) Serious interview system. For the implementation of the party's education policy and the education decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the performance of education responsibilities is not in place, the completion of education tasks is seriously lagging behind, the school-running behavior is not standardized, the quality of education and teaching is declining, and there are many safety problems or refuse The supervised unit that does not accept educational supervision shall be interviewed by the educational supervision agency. The interview should be serious, make a written record and submit it to the party committee and government of the place where the supervised unit is located and the higher-level department for the record, as an important basis for political performance and performance evaluation.

(17) Establish a notification system. For the supervised units with ineffective rectification, prevarication, inaction or failure to complete the task of rectification and implementation of the problems found in the education supervision, the education supervision institution shall inform the local Party committee and government and the higher authorities of the results of the education supervision, the work performance and the rectification situation, and suggest that the members of the leading group shall not be evaluated, promoted or transferred to important positions.

(18) Compaction accountability system. Integrate the power of education supervision and establish a linkage mechanism between education supervision and education administrative approval, punishment and law enforcement. The supervised units that fail to complete the annual objectives and tasks, fail to perform the evaluation of educational duties, obstruct, interfere with and do not cooperate with the educational supervision work shall be notified in accordance with the relevant provisions and the relevant responsible persons shall be held accountable; if such situations exist in private schools, the administrative department of education shall be instructed to urge the school to replace the relevant responsible persons in accordance with the law. The supervised units that threaten and retaliate against educational supervisors due to the high incidence of educational mass incidents, ineffective response, and strong reaction from the masses, serious dereliction of duty in the performance of educational duties, resulting in major safety accidents or major school-related incidents, shall, according to the seriousness of the circumstances, seriously investigate the responsibility of the responsible persons of the relevant units in accordance with the relevant provisions; if there is such a situation in private schools, the examination and approval department shall revoke the school license in accordance with the law. In the process of supervision, if the inspector discovers illegal acts such as running a school in violation of the law, infringing upon the legitimate rights and interests of the educated and teachers and the school, and the anomie of teachers' morality, they shall be handed over to the relevant law enforcement departments for investigation and handling; if they are suspected of committing crimes, they shall be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with the law. Accountability and handling results should be announced to the public in a timely manner.

5. further deepen the reform of employment and management of supervisors

(19) Equipped with strong inspectors at all levels. In accordance with the provisions of the regulations on Educational Supervision, the Office of the Education steering Committee of the State Council employs state inspectors who stress politics, dare to take responsibility, and understand education. Local governments at all levels should attach great importance to the construction of education supervision team, according to the actual needs of the number of local schools and students, and comprehensively consider the work tasks, geographical factors, traffic conditions, etc., to build a team of supervisors with sufficient quantity, reasonable structure, exquisite business, clean and efficient, full-time and part-time combination. In principle, local inspectors are equipped with a ratio of 1:5 to the number of schools, and some schools with a large number of students are equipped with a ratio of 1:1. The specific proportion of full-time and part-time inspectors shall be determined by each province according to the actual situation.

(20) Innovating the way of employing supervisors. Improve the selection criteria for supervisors, improve the selection procedures for supervisors, and select supervisors at all levels on the basis of merit. Combined with the function of educational supervision and the current reality, it is explored to employ a group of supervisors with excellent political quality, rich professional experience and strong sense of responsibility from cadres who have not retired for a long time and are in good health. From the principals, teachers and experts who have not retired for a long time and are in good health, a group of supervisors with excellent business, dedicated work and multi-position experience are employed to specialize in school supervision. Ensure that educational supervision institutions at all levels have a group of backbone inspectors who are dedicated to their duties, dare to supervise, and are proficient in supervision, and ensure that the supervision team is relatively stable.

(21) Improve the professional level of inspectors. Improve the supervision training mechanism, formulate training plans, issue training outlines, prepare training materials, incorporate supervision training into the education management cadre training plan, carry out professional training for supervisors, do a solid job in hierarchical and classified training, and improve the professional level and working ability of the supervision team. Gradually expand the proportion of full-time inspectors. Strengthen the performance assessment of supervisors, reward supervisors who perform their duties seriously and achieve remarkable results in an appropriate way, and stimulate the enthusiasm of supervisors. Establish a mechanism for the withdrawal of inspectors.

(22) strict education supervision team management supervision. Governments at all levels shall establish a supervision system for educational supervision institutions at the same level, and educational supervision institutions at all levels shall improve the supervision of educational supervision institutions at lower levels and improve the accountability mechanism for educational supervision posts. Strictly abide by political discipline and political rules, and continuously improve the political quality of the education supervision team. Strengthen the construction of professional ethics, to ensure that supervisors abide by professional ethics, to achieve legal supervision, civilized supervision. Strictly implement clean government discipline and work discipline, and urge supervisors at all levels to adhere to principles, be selfless and fearless, dare to face tough, and be loyal, clean, and responsible. Strict implementation of hierarchical classification management, the supervision of discipline violations, to seriously investigate, seriously deal. Publicly list the contact information of school inspectors and accept social supervision.

6. further deepen the reform of education supervision and guarantee mechanism

(23) Strengthen the construction of education supervision and the rule of law. Improve education supervision laws and regulations, speed up the construction of relevant rules and regulations, and promote the introduction of local supporting laws and policies. Strengthen the awareness of procedures, refine the work specifications, and improve the supervision process, so that all aspects and links of education supervision have rules to follow.

(24) Effectively implement the guarantee of educational supervision conditions. Governments at all levels should incorporate the funds for educational supervision work into the fiscal budget at the corresponding level, which should be used by educational supervision institutions as a whole, and properly solve the communication, transportation, accommodation, labor and other expenses incurred by educational supervision staff, especially part-time inspectors, due to educational supervision work. Governments at all levels should provide necessary conditions for educational supervision in terms of office space and equipment to ensure the effective development of educational supervision.

(25) Accelerate the construction of an information platform for education supervision. Integrate and build a national unified, hierarchical, open and shared education supervision information management platform, gradually form an intelligent supervision system supported by modern information technology and big data, and improve the informatization and scientific level of education supervision.

(26) Strengthen educational supervision and research. Focusing on major issues in the field of education supervision, organize and carry out systematic in-depth research, put forward suggestions for improvement, and strengthen policy reserves. Adopt appropriate methods to focus on supporting relevant universities and scientific research institutions to continue to carry out educational supervision and research, and cultivate and strengthen educational supervision and research capabilities.

7. job requirements

(27) Strengthen organizational leadership. Relevant departments and local governments at all levels must fully understand the importance of deepening the reform of the education supervision system and mechanism in the new era, and strengthen organization and coordination in accordance with the goals and tasks determined in this opinion, and implement it. Local governments at all levels should study and propose specific implementation measures in the light of actual conditions.

(28) Strengthen supervision and inspection. The Education Steering Committee of the State Council shall strengthen the supervision and inspection of the implementation of this opinion, and the implementation shall serve as an important basis for the assessment, rewards and punishments of relevant departments and local governments at all levels and their main responsible persons. The responsible units and persons in charge that have achieved remarkable results in the implementation of the work shall be commended in accordance with the regulations; the responsible units that have not been implemented in place shall be held accountable in accordance with laws and regulations.

Source: Xinhua