Source: Banyuetan
Baiyuetan reporter went to some "big counties for student source" in Hunan to investigate and found that there is a gray interest chain in the field of private secondary vocational college admissions. It uses false admission publicity, prepayment of tuition fees, suspected purchase and sale of student sources to sell students' "heads" at high prices, and the black hands focus on rural junior high school students. Behind the shady curtain is the exploitation of students' value.
Hunan Province recently thoroughly investigated and punished a number of illegal enrollment behaviors of secondary vocational schools, and reported 8 typical cases of violations of regulations and discipline, involving the mutual connection between some secondary vocational schools, junior high school students and social intermediary enrollment dealers, and canceled the cross-city and prefecture enrollment plan of relevant schools.
1 Offline squatting and online win over, "admissions dealers" fully penetrated
Not long ago, Xiaolin (pseudonym), a third-year junior high school student in a remote rural junior high school in Hunan, was targeted as soon as she got off school.
"He chatted with me at the school gate and spoke local language, but claimed to be Teacher Xiao from a secondary vocational school in Changsha. When I heard that I was in the third year of junior high school, I enthusiastically bought me snacks and asked me to take my classmates to visit their school." Xiaolin told the reporter of Banyuetan that Teacher Xiao promised that for every person I recruited to apply for this school, he would "reimburse" him for 3,000 yuan in tuition.
I heard that the round-trip fee and meal fee for visiting Changsha was included, and Kobayashi felt that "it's okay to take a look." On May 17, he pulled three classmates to a bus heading to Changsha. On that day, there were 51 junior high school students in the car.
Looking at the exquisite enrollment brochures, Xixi (pseudonym) on the bus was very excited, but when she arrived at the school, she was completely disappointed: "When I saw it on the spot, it was not the way it looked on the brochures. The school was in a very remote suburb, and the teaching building was dilapidated. The teacher led the team pointed to the open space and 'drawn pie' for us, and said what plans would be in the future."
Xixi told the reporter of Banyuetan that a "instructor" in camouflage uniform warned the students who visited that the school was carrying out militarized management, especially not allowed to take photos.
After visiting, Kobayashi, Xixi and others were taken to attend a lecture. "The lecturer has always emphasized that the school is very popular, and many popular majors are limited in quotas. You can pay 3,000 yuan in advance to book a degree to ensure admission." Xixi said.
After listening to the lecture, some students called their families to ask for money, and some students paid the deposit via WeChat on site. The "teacher" launched another offensive against some hesitant students. Kobayashi recalled: "I said I didn't have that much money for the time being. The teacher said I could help me advance and come to my house next time."
Half Month Talk reporter learned that in the case of related cases, 22 students went to private secondary vocational schools, and 19 of them paid a "degree deposit" of 3,000 yuan.
In order to attract more students, the "teachers" not only squatted at the school gate, but also launched online offensives. They set up QQ groups and sent red envelopes to motivate students to "grab people". "If the number of people in the group exceeds 100, the 'teacher' will send red envelopes, and if the number of people in the group exceeds 200, the red envelopes will be sent." Kobayashi said that the group will send some introductions to schools that look very tall every day to encourage students to sign up quickly. "A group in which I am in, after the school was exposed to illegal enrollment by the education department, the 'teacher' was still encouraging everyone to pay for the money to book a degree."
expanded the "admission network" through off-campus training institutions, which is also one of the usual tricks. In a case that Hunan took the initiative to investigate and deal with, a training institution around a township junior high school claimed that it was commissioned by relevant secondary vocational schools to organize an "admission interview" and charged a 50 yuan interview fee for students, creating a situation where "the school is popular and we must compete for admission", but in fact it was illegal to enroll students and exaggerate publicity.
2 The interests link all parties to enroll, and the "head" sold at a sky-high price
An education department staff member revealed that compared the big data of local secondary vocational school records and junior high school records in the past three years, it was found that the source of students in a group of junior high schools was obviously abnormal.
He gave an example, saying that a rural junior high school sent more than 150 students to a private secondary vocational school in 2019. "A secondary vocational school may recruit three or four hundred people at one term, and a junior high school can send dozens or hundreds of people. The source of students is highly concentrated, which is extremely abnormal. We suspect that it is a 'team crime'.”
The so-called "team crime" refers to the enrollment dealers colluding with individual head teachers and teachers of the third-year junior high school graduating class to buy and sell students. They asked teachers to vigorously promote specific private secondary vocational schools to students. If students sign up, enrollment dealers will charge "personnel fees" from them. At the same time, part of the "personnel fees" is distributed to teachers in the name of introduction fees.
An industry insider revealed to the reporter of Banyuetan that the "personnel fees" of students have risen in recent years: "A three-year technical secondary school student will be up to 26,000 yuan, and a five-year technical secondary school student will be up to 60,000 yuan. "
" The head teacher can get an introduction fee of 3,000 to 5,000 yuan if he recommends one person to enroll. "A head of the education department told the Banyuetan reporter that some teachers were tempted by interests and emphasized to students intentionally or unintentionally that it was difficult to go to school to study, and recommended students to study in specific private secondary vocational schools. "If you send a few students to secondary vocational schools, you can earn tens of thousands of yuan, will some junior high school teachers rather lead poor classes than good classes? ”
3 The source of students is the source of wealth. Rural students are exploited layer by layer. Why are some private secondary vocational schools willing to spend tens of thousands of yuan to "buy" students? The answer is: the wool comes from the sheep, and the source of students is the source of wealth.
More than one industry insiders calculated the same account for the reporter of the Baiyue Tan reporter, that is, secondary vocational schools can earn at least 5 money back from students: First, private secondary vocational schools can receive the tuition-free subsidy funds provided by the state by the state; Second, the tuition fee is generally about 8,000 to 15,000 yuan per academic year, and 30,000 to 40,000 yuan per academic year; Third, "on-job labor fee", that is, students are recommended to work in the name of "on-job internship" when they are short of working hours in the enterprise, and charge thousands to tens of thousands of yuan of "management fees"; Fourth, "study for junior college", "skill training", "exam material fees" and so on Various miscellaneous fees charged repeatedly; fifth, the thousands of yuan charged to enterprises before graduation are charged to recruit students.
Industry insiders pointed out that the reason why private secondary vocational schools are unscrupulous is driven by interests. The education quality of some private secondary vocational schools is not high, the software and hardware facilities are backward, and the training cost is very low; on the other hand, the risks are small. A large part of students who sign up for private secondary vocational schools are rural junior high school students with poor grades and poor families. They usually do not resist after entering school and are not good at protecting their rights.
"These rural children are originally the most vulnerable groups. Their families also expect them to learn a skill and change their destiny. In the end, they are deceived to some schools that do not match their names and are exploited layer by layer. "A head of the education department said.
4 Focus on supervision and development on the one hand, cutting off the gray interest chain from the source. More than 0 respondents believe that during the secondary vocational enrollment season, Hunan took the initiative to thoroughly investigate the illegal enrollment of private secondary vocational colleges. Recently, 8 typical cases have been exposed and dealt with seriously, which can create a deterrence within a certain range, and sounded the alarm for similar phenomena in various places, which is worthy of recognition. At the same time, it should also be seen that the exposed cases are only the "tip of the iceberg". The ills of the secondary vocational education enrollment ecology exposed by the chaos in private secondary vocational colleges need to be strictly cleaned and regulated.
- Improve the system and increase the cost and cost of violations. Ruan Haiqing, an expert in the assessment of the level of secondary vocational school management in Hunan Province, said that the education department repeatedly declared that illegal enrollment still exists. The fundamental reason is that the punishment is relatively light, and violations of regulations have become It is relatively low. Some industry insiders suggest that for schools that "touch the red line" that illegally enrolled students can suspend electronic student registration, reduce the enrollment scale, cancel the school qualification, etc., and guide the establishment of an exit mechanism.
- Strictly investigate junior high school teachers' participation in illegal enrollment. Judging from the various reports received by the education department, a few junior high school teachers blatantly ask for credits and accept "kickbacks" from private schools; some schools do not push the enrollment information of secondary vocational colleges as required, or even distort the enrollment information, deceive students and their parents, and even participate in controlling and buying and selling students. Industry insiders believe that teachers are the source of contact with students, and reporting channels should be opened for their violations, and severely investigated and punished.
- urge Sunshine enrollment without any dead corners.At the internal meeting of the investigation and punishment of illegal enrollment, a main person in charge of the education department said that although in recent years, it has been emphasized that it is necessary to establish and uniformly use the enrollment and admission platforms of high school schools, strictly implement online unified application applications and open and orderly admissions, a few places still deliberately delay not building or using platforms, leaving a hole for enrollment work and seeking personal gain. In the next step, we must strictly regulate the release of enrollment information, admission management, student status management, etc. of secondary vocational schools, and do not leave room for illegal enrollment.
- Resolve the "difficulty in enrollment" and "difficulty in survival" of private secondary vocational schools from the source. It is understood that the number of low-quality private secondary vocational schools is high and unevenly distributed among regions has long existed. Many "big counties of students" have become vicious competition-hit areas for cross-regional "grabbing people", which has led to a vicious cycle: everyone is scrambling, and if they don't scramble, they won't survive.
Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences Chu Zhaohui believes that behind the illegal enrollment of private secondary vocational schools is their survival and development difficulties.
"If a school can recruit enough students normally, why should it rely on 'middlemen' to maintain survival? To fundamentally resolve this problem, private vocational education must have greater living space." Chu Zhaohui suggested establishing rules and regulations and implementing them, and using modern school systems to run private vocational education, while creating broader application needs, development foundation and future space for vocational education.
Source: "Banyuetan" 2020 Issue 13
