China strictly forbidden to force students to buy tablet computers or educational apps

According to the website of the Ministry of Education, recently, the State Council inspector found that some schools under the guise of "voluntary", by setting up "smart classes" and "future classes" and other means to ask students to buy tablets and computers. And learning software, some schools even recommend learning software for related companies to "sing opera", which increases the financial burden of students' families, affects education fairness, and has a bad social impact.

The Office of the National Inter-ministerial Joint Conference on Governing Educational Indiscriminate Charges has decided to implement special supervision over matters concerning excessive charges in the name of education informatization in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Zhejiang, Henan, Guangdong, Yunnan, and other places. It is required to further investigate and deal with the transfer of interests and power rent-seeking behind the arbitrary charges, and to hold the relevant units, schools, and responsible persons seriously accountable and publicly notified in accordance with the law and regulations;

The Office of the National Inter-ministerial Joint Conference on Governing Educational Indiscriminate Charges also requires other provinces to learn lessons and strengthen the review and supervision of digital education resources entering campuses; it is strictly forbidden to force or disguise students to buy tablet computers or education app in the name of information-based teaching or class-based teaching; as a tablet computer or educational app that requires unified use as a teaching and management tool, the school shall not charge any fees to students and parents as a service charge or agency charge item, and shall not force students to purchase it in a disguised form by means of parent committees or direct payment companies. It is necessary to have "zero tolerance" for the phenomenon of arbitrary fees in education, and effectively maintain a high-pressure situation to control arbitrary fees in education.

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