Beijing plans to stop all preschool education and training apps.
On February 16, the official website of Beijing Municipal Education Commission announced the notice on further improving the filing and management of educational mobile Internet Applications (Exposure Draft), which made it clear that educational administrative departments and schools should not choose educational mobile applications that have not been filed, and those that are uniformly selected should not charge any fees to students and parents. Educational mobile applications for pre-school children training will stop running.
The reporter of securities times · e company learned that last year, some head education and training companies have abolished the young and young business sector and transformed quality education, hardware and public service. Quality education mostly lays out courses such as programming, and has become a new field that education and training companies try to explore in terms of public business and after-school service.
The relevant person in charge of a head education and training company told e company reporters that education companies are divided into training and non training. Training is divided into discipline and non discipline. Training refers to those with organization, purpose and clear objectives. Therefore, non training apps are not affected by Beijing's policy.
"Education before the age of six is not more about learning knowledge, but developing personality through games. In particular, we should develop a sound personality, including learning to cooperate with others, being able to share with others and developing our own imagination." Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, told the reporter of E company.
It is worth noting that the controversial "photo search question" was mentioned again. The exposure draft also proposes that non subject training education mobile applications shall not provide and disseminate bad learning methods that lazy primary and secondary school students' thinking ability, affect students' independent thinking and violate the laws of education and teaching, such as "taking photos and searching questions".
The relevant person in charge of the above head education and training company told the reporter of E company, "at present, the documented photo search app function generally needs real name authentication, requires to upload ID card information and images, and can be logged in and used only when they are older than 14 years old, which also means that the users of photo search have changed from students to parents or teachers".
new regulations on Beijing Education and training supervision
On February 16, the website of Beijing Municipal Education Commission released the notice on further improving the filing and management of educational mobile Internet Applications (Exposure Draft), which clearly proposed that educational mobile applications for preschool children training would be stopped.
The exposure draft divides educational mobile applications into two types: subject training (primary and secondary disciplines) and non subject training (non primary and secondary disciplines). Educational mobile applications that contain subject contents such as morality and rule of law, Chinese, history, geography, mathematics, foreign languages (English, Japanese, Russian), physics, chemistry, biology, and provide training services for compulsory education stage and senior high school students in the above disciplines through educational mobile applications are collectively referred to as "educational mobile applications for Discipline Training in primary and secondary schools".
It does not include the training contents of the above disciplines. It mainly provides services such as sports (or sports and health), art (or music and Art) disciplines and comprehensive practical activities (including information technology education, labor and Technology Education), education and teaching management, home school communication, etc. for the stage of compulsory education (including senior high school), And the content of educational services for non primary and secondary school students is collectively referred to as "non primary and secondary school discipline training education mobile application".
For Discipline Training, the exposure draft proposes that those engaged in online Discipline Training in primary and secondary schools need to obtain the permit for online Discipline Training in primary and secondary schools in accordance with the requirements of the central "double reduction" document. The provider of "Discipline Training Education mobile application for primary and secondary schools" must be a non-profit legal person who has obtained the school running license from the provincial education administrative department, registered by the civil affairs department and established according to law, and engaged in Discipline Training in the stage of online compulsory education. The content of "educational mobile application for Discipline Training in primary and secondary schools" needs to be reviewed by the provincial education administrative department (mainly including curriculum resources, teaching content, teacher qualification, charging method, etc.), and the service can be provided only after passing the review or obtaining relevant permission.
For non subject training, the exposure draft proposes that all educational mobile applications for preschool children's training will stop running.
In fact, the opinions on further reducing the burden of homework and after-school training of students in the stage of compulsory education (the "double reduction" policy) issued by the state in July last year also mentioned the relevant requirements for the education and training of preschool children.
The "double reduction" policy points out that while doing a good job in the "double reduction" of students in the stage of compulsory education, all localities should also make an overall plan for the management of out of school training for 3-6-year-old preschool children and ordinary high school students. They are not allowed to carry out online training for preschool children, and it is strictly prohibited to use preschool classes, kindergarten connecting classes Under the name of thinking training class, offline Discipline Training (including foreign language) is carried out for preschool children. No new off campus training institutions for preschool children and discipline off campus training institutions for ordinary high school students will be approved.
"photo search questions" attracted attention
It is worth noting that the controversial "photo search question" was mentioned again. The exposure draft proposes that non subject training education mobile applications shall not provide and disseminate bad learning methods that lazy primary and secondary school students' thinking ability, affect students' independent thinking and violate the laws of education and teaching, such as "taking photos and searching questions". The live broadcast function shall not be used to carry out discipline training, and platform mobile applications shall not provide discipline training services for non-compliance institutions using the live broadcast function.
Last December, the general office of the Ministry of Education issued a notice, which put forward clear requirements for strengthening education app management and promoting the connection with the "double reduction" policy. The notice proposed that homework apps that lazy students' thinking ability, affect students' independent thinking and violate the laws of education and teaching, such as "taking photos and searching questions", will be temporarily offline. The record can be restored only after the rectification is in place and reviewed by the provincial education administrative department; If it fails to pass the examination, the record shall be revoked.
The relevant person in charge of the above head education and training company told the reporter of E company, "at present, the documented photo search app function generally needs real name authentication, requires to upload ID card information and images, and can be logged in and used only when they are older than 14 years old, which also means that the users of photo search have changed from students to parents or teachers".
The reporter of E company noted that the field of photo search has attracted the layout of many Internet giants.
In March last year, byte beat's new education business "lightning search" was officially launched. The application is a shooting tool app for primary and secondary school students to solve problems, covering a variety of disciplines such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and so on. Since then, Alibaba's companies have also devoted themselves to photo search. Quark learning is a learning channel launched by Alibaba's intelligent search app quark in the field of education. On April 2, quark app learning channel launched a new function of "practice again with wrong questions".
However, with the release of the "double reduction" policy and the tightening of local education regulatory policies, the questioned photo search app has also been continuously exposed off the shelves.
In August 2021, tal's photo search software for primary and secondary schools announced that the photo search service will no longer be provided from August 5, 2021. In the same month, Avanti, an online education platform, wrote in the app store's app version history that "photo search questions are no longer available".
