Yesterday, the Ministry of Education issued a circular on investigating and handling illegal competitions among primary and secondary school students. The names of "Olympic English Competition" and "Hope Mathematics" are not included in the List of National Competition Activities for Primary and Secondary School Students published by the Ministry of Education, which is an illegal competition. Among them, in recent years, through the network and training institutions, the "Mathematics Garden Exploration", "China Mathematics Star", "Walking the America Cup" and "Major League of America" in primary schools are all illegal competitions.
The circular pointed out that since 20 18, the Ministry of Education has continuously standardized the national competitions for primary and secondary school students, and published the approved competition list for four consecutive years, including the national competition list for primary and secondary school students in the 2022-2025 school year at the end of September. In the past four years, the Ministry of Education has cancelled all kinds of competitions in preschool education and compulsory education, greatly reduced the number of competitions, basically cut off the interest chain linked with enrollment, examination and training, and effectively curbed the chaos caused by competitions. However, driven by interests, illegal competitions still occur from time to time, disrupting the order of education and teaching, increasing the burden on students and parents, and seriously infringing on the interests of the masses.
The Ministry of Education solemnly reminds that relevant market entities should operate legally and in compliance with regulations, and do not hold competitions for primary and secondary school students in violation of regulations. For illegal competition activities, the education department will work with the market supervision department to deal with them seriously according to the law; Students and parents should keep their eyes open. Those who are not included in the "List of National Competition Activities for Primary and Secondary School Students" are illegal competitions. There are no subject competitions for students in compulsory education in the list, and students and parents are not allowed to charge any fees for all competitions. Competition and competition results are not used as the basis for enrollment in primary and secondary schools, nor as the basis for adding points to the college entrance examination; Education administrative departments and schools at all levels should strengthen policy propaganda and reminders, guide parents and students to treat all kinds of competitions rationally, and consciously resist illegal competitions.
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A number of illegal competitions were banned according to law.
Recently, the Ministry of Education instructed all localities to investigate and deal with a number of illegal competitions one after another, and publicly notified:
The original name of "Olympic English Competition" is "National Olympic English Composition Competition". The content of the competition is English composition, oral English and speech for primary and secondary school students. It was announced that the organizers were the English-Chinese Professional Committee of the International Bilingual Education Association and the Organizing Committee of the Olympic English Competition. After investigation, the contest was actually held illegally by Guangzhou Longling Education Technology Co., Ltd. The so-called "English-Chinese Professional Committee of the International Bilingual Education Association" and "Organizing Committee of the Olympic English Competition" are not legally registered, and the competitions held violate the Measures for the Administration of Competition Activities for Primary and Secondary School Students in China. At present, the competition has been banned according to law.
"JEA China" claims to be the China branch of the American News Media Education Association, and has held three activities in China (YOC National Youth Observation Project, YIC Youth Influence Project and Senior High School Students' National Media Works Award) and one award (National Youth Leadership Award). After investigation, the above competitions were held by Shanghai Wenjie Education Technology Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Wuyuan Science and Technology Education Co., Ltd. in violation of regulations. The so-called "JEA China" was not legally registered, and the competition held violated the Measures for the Administration of National Competition for Primary and Secondary School Students. At present, the competition has been banned according to law.
"Hope Mathematics", formerly known as "Hope Cup", carries out enrollment promotion through official accounts of Douban, Xiaohongshu, Zhihu and WeChat. After investigation, it was found that the related competitions named "Hope Mathematics" and "Hope Cup", such as "Hope Mathematics Summit vs. International Elite Challenge", "Hope Mathematics Summit Challenge Camp Competition" and "Hope Youth Club" were held illegally by enterprises such as Comet Sea Technology Co., Ltd., and the competitions held violated the National Measures for the Administration of Competition Activities for Primary and Secondary School Students. At present, the competition has been banned according to law.