1. At present, the number of pre-school specialized schools in China
By the end of 2009, there were 128 colleges and universities offering undergraduate teacher education. There are 280 colleges at the junior college level; There are 187 1 colleges at the secondary school level.
2. Number of students majoring in preschool education
By the end of 2009, there were 209,626 students majoring in preschool education at all levels, including 648 undergraduates1person, accounting for 3.1%of the total number; College students 18483, accounting for 8.8% of the total; Secondary school students 184662, accounting for 88. 1% of the total number, graduates 14 1405.
3. The basic situation of kindergarten teachers in China at present.
By the end of 2009, there were 899,000 full-time kindergarten teachers in China, with 38 1 10,000 in cities, accounting for 42.5% of the total. There are 309,000 people in counties and townships, accounting for 34.3% of the total number; There are 209,000 people in rural areas, accounting for 23.2% of the total number. The proportion of full-time kindergarten teachers with technical secondary school education or above is 56.2% in cities and 36.4% in rural areas.
According to statistics, the number of pre-school education colleges in China is relatively small at present, and the graduates of kindergarten teachers at the college level only account for 15.4% of all kindergarten teachers' graduates every year, resulting in a low proportion of full-time kindergarten teachers with college education or above, which is far from meeting the needs of today's social development. The needs of people's livelihood
Preschool education is the foundation of life development, basic education, the beginning of lifelong education and an important part of the national education system. It is of great value to promote the individual's early comprehensive and healthy physical and mental development, consolidate and improve the quality and efficiency of compulsory education, improve the national quality, narrow the gap between urban and rural areas, and promote education and social equity. At the same time, the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee also clearly put forward the requirements of attaching importance to preschool education and developing preschool education in rural areas.
In recent years, although preschool education in China has rebounded, the gross enrollment rate was only 44.6% in 2007 and reached 47.3% in 2008, but the development still cannot meet the needs of the people. Due to the small number of kindergartens in rural areas of China, 50% of children still fail to attend preschool education; In cities, due to the lack of policy environment support and problems in fees and quality, parents generally choose public kindergartens, which are difficult and expensive to enter. In 2008, the number of kindergarten children was about 24.75 million, less than 50% of children aged 3-6 in China, while rural kindergarten children only accounted for 44% of the whole rural children. According to the statistics of Shaanxi Province, in 20 10, there were 294,000 newborn babies and 49,000 in xi 'an. By the end of 20 10, there were only 22 public kindergartens in Xi 'an, and even fewer in other counties. According to the statistics of Chengdu Education Bureau 20 10, the number of preschool teachers in the city is10.5 million, and with the acceleration of urbanization in Chengdu, the demand for preschool teachers is increasing. It can be seen that preschool education has not only become the weak link of the whole education system in China, but also become the prominent weak link of the major livelihood needs in China at present.
Early education is the general trend of early childhood education in the 265,438+0 century. The latest China Demographic Yearbook shows that there are 70 million infants aged 0-3 in China, including 0-3 children in cities109,000. The concepts of "the commanding height of talent training is in the primary stage" and "education begins at the age of 0" are increasingly deeply rooted in people's hearts. The intellectual development of children aged 0-3 is the expectation of parents, and it is also a new growth point of preschool education development and market demand.
According to the Outline of the National Medium-and Long-term Education Reform and Development Plan and the development plans of preschool education formulated by various provinces and cities, preschool education will be basically popularized in the next decade. However, there is a big gap in preschool teachers. It is estimated that the gap of preschool teachers will reach 6.5438+0.2 million in the next decade. Although the national preschool education has developed in recent years, it still lags far behind the overall goal of the national preschool education. To shorten this gap, a large number of high-quality preschool teachers are needed, and this gap provides a huge employment market for preschool education professionals.