Archive for December, 2011

December 12th, 2011

Shanghai Education: Building Long Private Schools – Private Education – Education Industry

Shanghai Education: Building Long Private Schools – Private Education – Education Industry
Establish pension system, the implementation of legal property rights … … Shanghai has introduced nine initiatives, building Private Education The development of long-term mechanism behind these initiatives, reflecting the development of private education in Shanghai What mind? Reporter Interview The Shanghai Education Commission Deputy Director of Private Education Management Wei Li.

Reporter: Why is the establishment of private schools to support teaching and administrative staff into the government pension system one of the conditions?

Li Wei: This is mainly to stabilize the private school teachers, faculty gradually improve their treatment after retirement. According to research in the private schools under the existing legal framework, corporate property is private non-enterprise units, rather than institutions, teachers hardly cause of the preparation. The establishment is entitled to various benefits, the private school teachers have not prepared, in the job classification, seniority calculations, retirement pension, medical insurance with the Public school teachers are different, difficult and Public School teachers have full equal treatment and legal status .

Currently, the legal property of private schools is still not resolved the fundamental premise for the stability of private school teachers, we encourage the establishment of private schools teaching staff pension system for private school teachers to purchase additional pension insurance, in order to improve their retirement treatment. Therefore, the Municipal Board of Education issued a circular calling for private schools participating countries in accordance with the law of statutory basic pension insurance and to fulfill payment obligations based on the affordability of private schools to establish a voluntary supplementary pension insurance system. This put this policy into government support funds were one of the conditions is that the private schools to further promote this work.

Reporter: Why strengthen the management of private schools in financial norms, the private schools into the government financial management practices to support one of the conditions?

Li Wei: This is mainly the Government’s public financial investment in order to ensure the safety and effectiveness. According to research, Shanghai, the financial management of private schools there are some problems: First, large differences between the financial accounting system, financial accounting, accounting system has used private non-enterprise, business, institutions, and other stock of the accounting system, accounting wide variety of subjects setting, financial Software Different forms of accounting report can not reflect the actual operating conditions in schools. The second is between private schools and organized structure of property rights is not clear, particularly in private schools do not implement the legal property rights, no real sense of the independent legal status. Third, private schools arbitrariness strong fund management, mainly tuition income and government funding of public financial support, lack of special regulation. Fourth, the private school’s performance evaluation system has not been established, the Government has no way to obtain information on private schools, school costs, the quality of their school, no way to evaluate school effectiveness, which continued to increase government support for public finances, evaluate benefits and challenges of using funds .

This, combined with Shanghai characteristics of private schools, we study the development of a private school financial management and accounting methods, and on January 1, 2009 start. This private school in the strengthen financial management practices and improve the quality of accounting to achieve good results, achieving a Private University’s budget, special, accounting, reporting, unified management, cost accounting private schools colleges and universities and the government to provide funding for monitoring the Technology Protection.

Reporter: Why seven departments in Shanghai jointly develop “Private colleges and universities in Shanghai to promote the implementation of measures to implement Property Rights”?

Li Wei: This is mainly to protect the private colleges as a separate corporate entity shall have the basic conditions for running. Currently, most private colleges not yet been implemented Shanghai corporate property rights, First, some private colleges in the start-up that is in the name of project organizers, and access to land began this school, and when the approval of the establishment of private universities failed to land school premises and other assets, and timely transfer to the school name. Second, the organizers will generally not be fully funded school, is the name of the land, premises or have been pledged, the school has more difficult access to credit, so the organizers can not be released from the transfer of assets pledged to the school’s name . Third, the organizers have not yet been clear statement of the “reasonable return” there is hope, and fear not protected the interests of investors. For various complicated reasons, the implementation of private colleges Shanghai Property Rights has now become the bottleneck restricting their development.

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December 10th, 2011

Educating Cuba: Why the UK should look to the Caribbean for educational inspiration

Educating Cuba: Why the UK should look to the Caribbean for educational inspiration

Article by Sarah Maple

Sunday April 10th saw the annual meeting of the National Union of Teachers. Amidst British delegates complaining of misleading SATs, big class sizes and low pay (leading to a demand for a 10 percent or £3,000 price increase) – a teacher from Cuba spoke of the education system in her homeland, and offered a glimmer of hope to those who have all but given up on Labour’s mantra: ‘Education Education Education.’ So what have the Cuban government done so well?

As reported by People’s Weekly World, Lissette Rubio Mederos spoke fondly of the Cuban system and highlighted the progress that has been made from 1959 when 25 percent of Cubans were illiterate, compared to the 0.2 percent today and a countrywide education system that the United Nations ‘rates as one of the best in the world.’ Since the revolution, 99 percent of children now attend compulsory education to secondary level which is free, and in the process private schooling has been completely eradicated.

However it is not just primary and secondary schooling that Cuba has seemingly reinvented over the last 50 years, part of the success of the country’s education system comes from the progression of their higher and adult education – and its integration into the community. In 1959 there were just 3 universities in a country that is just 8,000 square miles smaller than England, yet today there are more than 45 with one located in each province. Additionally, Cuba is also home to several easy access education and degree schemes such as the University For All programme that is distributed via television, and the University for the Elderly – a community-based institution especially for OAPs.

A colleague of Mederos’s, Anna Fuertes, also identified that one of the places the Cuban education system seems to surpass others is in the way education is considered a responsibility of the community rather than the schools themselves. As a consequence, The Latin American School of Medicine can be seen as a pioneering institution for offering 1,500 free scholarships a year to students in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and North America; it must also be noted that this institution was established in 1998 whilst the notion of Open Content is only just beginning to be discussed in the UK in 2009.

The idea of free education and working beyond borders was reiterated in a paper written by Dr. Elvira Martin Sabhina entitled, Higher Education in Cuba in the 2000s: Past and Future. Despite being written in 2003, the closing statement still seems relevant and forward thinking, and goes some way to summing up where other education systems can learn from Cuba – Sabhina writes, “Cuba is willing to share its experience and to learn from others. The challenge is clearly defined. The answer awaits for the Latin American and Caribbean university community to join efforts and political will, minds and souls to reach those high expectations.”

Sarah Maple is writing about business courses and online study.