Under the envelope of the epidemic, studying abroad has created the most affected group of students. Among them, there are middle school students and college students who cannot return to their original schools due to the epidemic, graduates who cannot go through the formalities for employment and settlement due to returning home early, and fresh students who can only stay at home and take online classes due to the epidemic... The various difficulties caused by the impact of the epidemic have attracted the attention of many delegates and committee members.
"Currently there are a considerable number of international high school students who cannot return to their original foreign schools, but the courses they learn are not compatible with China. Most of them don't have a domestic student status and it is difficult to transfer back to ordinary high schools in China." Deputies to the National People's Congress , Zhou Hongyu, vice president of the Chinese Education Association and professor of Central China Normal University, suggested that international high school students should be classified and digested to enter the international classes of domestic schools, and the "inner loop" of domestic and international education should be launched as soon as possible.
Establish a cohesion system for overseas students to study abroad
According to statistics from the Ministry of Education, from 2016 to 2019, 2.518 million people studied abroad and 2.013 million returned to my country. In order to alleviate the obstruction of studying abroad caused by the epidemic, the Ministry of Education has promoted the temporary expansion of 94 Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run universities, institutions and projects, enrolling a total of 3,031 people.
But for international high school students, Zhou Hongyu found that: [Parents are generally anxious. Children have not completed their studies abroad, and their studies have been interrupted due to the impact of the epidemic."
Zhou Hongyu said that even if the local government passes certain procedures to recognize that international high school students have "high school equivalent qualifications" to qualify for the college entrance examination, they do not have the advantage in the current college entrance examination system and it is difficult to get an ideal university.
International high school students entering domestic Sino-foreign cooperative high schools will become a new choice. At present, domestic high schools jointly run by Chinese and foreign countries have formed a complete system. Take a Chinese-foreign joint school in Wuhan as an example. The courses offered by it belong to the same system as that of foreign schools. After completing your studies, you can take the foreign college entrance examination and get a foreign diploma.
Zhou Hongyu suggested that the relevant state departments should adjust relevant policies as appropriate, appropriately liberalize the mode of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, and facilitate its connection with domestic international high schools, and make appropriate adjustments in academic certification. In addition, it should be noted that the enrollment of Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools cannot affect the fairness of the college entrance examination. International high school students admitted can only be awarded foreign diplomas in the future.
Nowadays, many college students who are supposed to study abroad can only take classes online at home.
Yang Song, deputy to the National People's Congress and vice president of Liaoning University, said that under the normalization of the epidemic, the willingness of international students to transfer back to China has become more and more urgent. How to deal with the status of returned students has become an inevitable problem in the management of student status.
Yang Song suggested that the education department should encourage domestic colleges and universities to introduce policies to accept high-quality students to return to the country or formally enroll under special circumstances such as the epidemic; establish a mechanism for student transfer and credit recognition between domestic and foreign colleges and universities to help students transfer between domestic and foreign colleges Provide convenience; encourage the increase of various forms of Sino-foreign cooperative education institutions and projects to provide more choices for students who are hindered from studying abroad; learn from the philosophy and experience of famous universities around the world, and learn from university endowments and other forms to provide more for the development of domestic universities Strong financial support and guarantee.
Zhou Hongyu concluded that my country will continue to expand the opening up of education and build a more open and flexible education system. Including the establishment of a lifelong learning system for all people under the background of internationalization, the establishment of a connection system for overseas students to study abroad, and provide institutional supplies for overseas students to continue their studies in the country.
"Study to return to China" time is related to the vital interests of international students
For international students who are about to return to China for employment, the road to settlement is not so smooth.
Once chatting with my own students, Cai Jiming, a representative of the National People's Congress, a member of the Standing Committee of the Democratic Progressive Central Committee, and a professor at the School of Social Sciences of Tsinghua University, learned about the difficulties faced by international students who return to China for employment and settlement.
"Under the influence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, a large number of international students returned home early due to school closures and avoiding the epidemic; or due to the interruption of international air routes and expensive air tickets, they were unable to return to school in the country and had to complete their studies through online teaching and online defense; or After obtaining a diploma in a foreign country, he stayed abroad due to interruption of international air routes and expensive air tickets." Cai Jiming suggested that the regulations on returning to the country for employment and settlement of overseas students during the epidemic should be adjusted.
Through research, Cai Jiming found that according to the implementation measures issued by the Ministry of Education's Study Abroad Service Center, official email replies, relevant practitioners` experience guidelines published on the Internet, and the explanation of the "two-year service period" on the website of the Study Abroad Service Center, it can be concluded that: For international students who return to China before graduation, the starting point for the calculation of "return to China" is the entry time.
"A considerable number of overseas PhD and master students have to return to China in advance to complete their studies by means of online courses and online defenses. The Service Center for Overseas Studies has not issued a new method for calculating the time of returning to China after studying. The old rules have resulted in the two-year employment settlement period enjoyed by these returned doctors and masters, and the actual remaining time may even be less than half a year." Cai Jiming said.
Cai Jiming suggested that the calculation method of the starting time for the two-year period for non-Beijing or Shanghai registered overseas students to apply for employment and settlement in Beijing or Shanghai should be adjusted to: starting from the date when the foreign student actually enters the country after receiving the graduation diploma. Or from the date when the international student actually obtained the diploma after entering the country (according to the time marked on the diploma).
Under the epidemic, the environment has forced the transformation and upgrading of education. Zhou Hongyu believes that my country's education in the future can provide students with high-quality international study and life experience and work experience, use domestic high-quality educational resources to complete basic learning, reduce the time of studying abroad, and then go abroad to complete the remaining part of the study at an appropriate time.