Some private primary and secondary schools in Guangzhou raised tuition fees

Yangcheng Evening News reporter Hang Ying reported: Recently, the reporter sorted out the official website of the Guangzhou Development and Reform Commission found that since July, the Guangzhou Development and Reform Commission has successively completed the approval of the charging standards for 14 private primary and secondary schools in Guangzhou. According to the content of the approval, the school year charges of some civil society have improved compared with previous years. While the charges increase, the number and number of degrees in Guangzhou's private primary and secondary schools have decreased significantly. The transformation of private schools will be transformed.

According to reporters, three of the 14 Guangzhou citizens' office primary and secondary schools were raised. The charging standards have been implemented from the autumn semester of 2022, with a validity period of two to three. Among them, the biggest raising is the tuition fee standard for Tongren Art Experimental Middle School, Tianhe District, Guangzhou. The tuition fee for the 2021 school year is 13,000 yuan per semester, and the latest approval standard is 1,5300 yuan per semester per semester, and the tuition fee increases up to 2,300 yuan.

The remaining two raised tuition standards are Huaxing Primary School in Nansha District, Guangzhou and Guangzhou Star School. The 2021 academic year tuition charging standard of Huaxing Primary School in Nansha District, Guangzhou is 7225 yuan per semester, and the latest approval standard is 8,800 yuan per semester per semester, and the tuition fee increases by 15,75 yuan. The upsurge of Guangzhou Star School is 1930 yuan, ranging from 26320 yuan per semester to 28,250 yuan per semester.

Among the 14 private primary and secondary schools, only 1 school's charging standards were reduced by 1,500 yuan compared with 2021. Generally speaking, the tuition fees for private primary and secondary schools are raised between 1,500 and 2,000 yuan.

Regarding the current status of price increases in primary and secondary schools, Wu Yingmin, vice president of the Chinese Education Society, calls it an inevitable phenomenon. "Because the cost is high." Wu Yingmin told reporters that after the implementation of the "citizen's recruitment" policy, the number of applicants exceeded the enrollment number of private schools needed a computer to be distributed, and the civil school could no longer be "tip". The "seller market" becomes the "buyer's market".

The reporter learned that this year Guangzhou citizens provided a total of 5,1624 degrees. Admissions schools decreased by 27 compared with last year and more than 10,000 degrees. In terms of middle schools, according to the data released by the Guangzhou Education Bureau and the "Admissions Registration Platform of the Guangzhou Municipal Compulsory Education School", in 2022, the Guangzhou Citizens Office of the Junior High School Admissions, a total of 157 private junior high schools provided 36,154 degrees. The enrollment school decreased by 33 compared with last year, and the number of enrollment was reduced by 10,127.

According to data released by the Guangzhou Education Bureau, the number of people who enrolled in private primary schools this year decreased by 4,869 from 39102 last year. A total of 38,416 children who filled the private junior high school volunteers, a decrease of 9,820 people from last year.

In Wu Yingmin's view, in the face of the no longer neat sources, private schools must create quality and characteristics, attract some families to be willing to give up free public education to come to study before they can survive. Large soft hardware, investing in more effective teaching methods, increasing tuition is an inevitable choice.

On July 6, the Guangzhou Municipal Education Bureau issued the "Implementation Opinions of the Institute of Degree Services for the Private Education School of Compulsory Education in Guangzhou". Since the fall semester of 2022, all the "people" students who are "consistent" from private compulsory education schools are not low in principle. Purchase private degree services for 5,000 yuan per person per year and no less than 6,000 yuan per person per year. If the charging standards of private compulsory education schools studying by students are equal to or lower than fiscal subsidy standards, they purchase degree services in accordance with the school's charges; Essence

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