Some have an average decrease of more than half, and some have a class of less than 10 yuan… Recently, many places have successively issued charging standards for Discipline after-school training, and the “price limit order” of after-school training institutions has been officially implemented.
According to the notice on strengthening the supervision of discipline after-school training fees in the stage of compulsory education jointly issued by the national development and Reform Commission and other three departments, all localities shall issue the government guidance price management policy for after-school training fees before the end of 2021. How much is the benchmark price of the new class fee? How does the “price limit order” affect?
all localities are divided by region and shift type, with a minimum of less than 10 yuan
According to incomplete statistics, among the guidance prices published by various provinces and cities, the maximum off-campus training of offline disciplines is 80 yuan per student per class hour, the minimum is less than 10 yuan, and most of them are concentrated between 20 and 50 yuan; It is stipulated that the upward float of charges shall not exceed 10% and the downward float shall not be limited. In contrast, the difference in the guidance price of online courses formulated by various localities is relatively small, and most students spend 15 to 20 yuan per class hour.
The charging standards issued by various regions are mostly divided into multiple grades according to different administrative regions and class types. For example, according to the regulations of Beijing and Shanghai, classes with less than 10 people offline are 80 yuan / class hour per person, classes with 10 to 35 people are 60 yuan / class hour per person, and classes with more than 35 people are 40 yuan / class hour per person; The above three classes are unified as 20 yuan / class hour per person. Shanxi Province determines the charging standard according to the three types of administrative regions of Taiyuan City, other 10 city districts and counties, and the charging per person per class hour in the stage of compulsory education ranges from 9 to 28 yuan.
The reporter noted that all localities generally require that the management of discipline after-school training fees for ordinary high school students be implemented with reference to the stage of compulsory education. Hebei Province proposed that offline high school discipline training held by non-profit after-school training institutions should be converted by a factor of 1.3 with reference to the charging standard at the stage of compulsory education. Shandong Province stipulates that the offline charging standard for 30 minute discipline off-campus training in senior high school is 18 yuan / class hour per person, which has a certain increase compared with 16 yuan / class hour per person in compulsory education.
How is the charging standard determined? The reporter learned from the interview that the price limit policy for Discipline after-school training in various places took several months from brewing to promulgation. The overall guiding principle is to determine the benchmark charging standard with reference to the average training cost, taking into account the local economic development level, the affordability of students’ families and other factors on the premise of adhering to the public welfare attribute of discipline after-school training.
Before the introduction of government guidance prices, some provinces and cities widely solicited the opinions of all sectors of society. After the school starts in the autumn of 2021, 31 training institutions in Zhang Jia Jie Tourism Group Co.Ltd(000430) city of Hunan Province have been selected to investigate the cost of charging standards, and a demonstration meeting on pricing scheme has been held to determine the trial price on this basis; Hainan Province issued the draft for comments on matters related to the charging standard of discipline after-school training. After fully listening to the opinions of all sectors of society, the benchmark price of discipline after-school training of different class types was adjusted from 25 yuan, 7 yuan and 5 yuan per class hour to 25 yuan, 10 yuan and 7 yuan respectively.
tuition fees for out of school training have fallen sharply, and parents are happy and worried
Compared with the previous class fees of hundreds of yuan, the price of after-school training after the price limit is more “people-friendly”. According to the statistical data provided by Hunan development and Reform Commission, compared with before the implementation of the “double reduction” policy, the average decrease in the charge standard of local discipline after-school training is about 31.5%; The development and Reform Commission of Shanxi Province estimates that after the implementation of the new charging standard, the provincial off campus discipline training fees will drop by 40% to 65%.
It is generally believed that the price limit policy helps to curb the excessive profit seeking behavior of out of school training institutions and promote the return of public welfare attributes. Ms. Tan, the parent of Fuling District, Chongqing, said that according to the price limit standard announced by the government, the tuition of children’s training courses can be saved by nearly half, and the charging method is changed from the previous semester to monthly. “After the class fee is limited, you can save four or five thousand yuan a semester.”
The “double reduction” combination, including the price limit policy, is reconstructing the ecology of the education and training industry. The reporter visited the main urban area of Chongqing and learned that after the “price limit order” was issued, the class hour fee was reduced from the previous one or two hundred yuan to the maximum 40 yuan for a class. In addition, since the “double reduction”, classes could not be opened on weekends, winter and summer holidays, and the campus area and student scale of many discipline education and training institutions were reduced. Some operators frankly said that they were considering quitting or transforming to art Physical education and other quality-oriented after-school training.
Some continuing training institutions have charged fees in accordance with the price limit policy. “We just finished the ‘business to non business’ last month. We still want to continue.” Lu Lili is the person in charge of a discipline training institution in Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. She told reporters that her charging standard is lower than the government’s guidance price. After calculation, the average class hour is less than 20 yuan. “Now the horizontal competition is smaller than before, and with the word-of-mouth saved before, there is still room for survival”.
The reporter’s investigation found that after the implementation of the price limit policy, some parents who let their children continue to participate in make-up classes after school also have concerns. “In the past, training institutions hired famous teachers with high salaries. Can they retain good teachers after price limit?” Ms. Bai, a citizen of Taiyuan, is worried that after the class fee is reduced, it is difficult for training institutions to spare no effort to do the R & D and updating of courses, and the teaching quality will decline with the reduction of make-up fees.
In addition, some parents are worried that after the price reduction of education and training institutions, the private education with high fees will “bubble” and “rise”. According to insiders, after the “double reduction”, some off campus training institutions ostensibly cancelled their school running qualifications, but actually changed their soup without changing their dressing, took the high-end trusteeship route, and conducted discipline off campus training in the name of extracurricular trusteeship. The reporter interviewed in Taiyuan and other places and found that some teachers from off-campus training institutions have started “one-on-one” home tutoring, and the fees have also risen, from about 200 yuan to 500 yuan or more in the past hour.
strengthen the tracking and monitoring of landing, and pay attention to the supervision of “price limit”
The “price limit order” of after-school training is an important link in the implementation of “double reduction”, from the “business to non business” of discipline after-school training institutions to the strengthening of pre charge supervision, and from the limitation of make-up time to the rectification of over class make-up. Regional economic development, uneven educational resources, and differences in family income level, consumption awareness and emphasis on education put forward higher requirements for the scientificity of government guided pricing.
In the benchmark price of out of school training in compulsory education disciplines recently announced by various localities, classes with more than 35 people in Hainan are 7 yuan / class hour per person, while classes with more than 35 people in Guangxi are 30 yuan / class hour per person. Some netizens questioned that there is not much difference in economic development and family income consumption level between the two adjacent provinces and regions. Why is the class fee standard several times different?
At present, the government guidance prices announced by various localities are in the trial period, and its implementation and implementation effect remains to be observed. Experts suggest that relevant departments should strengthen the tracking and monitoring of the market situation of discipline training, and adjust policies as needed after the market situation is stable. The reporter found that some places have “reserved space” in the process of policy-making. Wuhan development and Reform Commission proposed in the draft for comments that the policy is valid for 3 years; Zhang Jia Jie Tourism Group Co.Ltd(000430) City stipulated the trial period of 2 years in the official document to provide a clear basis for subsequent policy adjustment.
“The government guidance price needs to be controlled within a certain reasonable range in order to make the off campus training industry develop orderly and healthily.” Fan Yongfeng, a professor of the Education Department of Southwest University, suggested that all localities should carry out comprehensive and in-depth research before issuing policies, fully grasp the number, scale and type, number of class hours, number of teachers, operating income, cost, original charging standard and training person times, widely listen to the opinions and suggestions of all parties and reasonably formulate charging standards.
Zhang Weishu, deputy to Chongqing Municipal People’s Congress, suggested that relevant departments should “pay more attention to supervision” while setting “price limit”. On the one hand, they should encourage innovation in charging methods and actively implement the training charging mode of “training before charging” and “one lesson and one elimination”. On the other hand, they should strictly investigate and deal with violations such as charging beyond the government’s guidance price and beyond the scope of charging according to law.
(Xinhua News Agency)
