Chaos in supplementary education: Ji'nan Yucai Education "shut down" incident
Shandong commercial newspaper
once in the provincial private extracurricular market for a place in the Ji'nan education 6 school areas have closed one after another, the person in charge is difficult. Get in touch, be suspicious of money to run away, this causes a large number of parents' prepaid learning costs are difficult to recover. Prior to that, there were also private sector secondary institutions in the provincial capital, which resulted in multiple disputes. Yesterday, our reporter found that many private school auxiliary institutions use inducement methods to advance a large amount of pre paid tuition to guarantee the key cash flow under the fierce competition, but once these institutions are unemployed, a large amount of prepaid parents will not be recovered. The margin of these agencies to the relevant departments is only tens of thousands of yuan, so it is difficult to protect the rights and interests of parents in time when the auxiliary institutions are closed.
text / picture reporter Li Linchao
[low threshold] private school auxiliary institutions as many as hundreds of
yesterday morning, reporters on the Second Ring Road near the school noticed that the road is less than one hundred meters away from the distance, the concentration of 2 private extracurricular institutions. The words of professional guidance and one to one learning are marked at the door of auxiliary institutions. According to Mr. Zhang in the industry, since the threshold limit of the secondary institution is low, since 2008, the private school auxiliary institutions aimed at "one to one tutoring" have been expanding in Ji'nan. "It is understood that now there are more than 300 private school auxiliary institutions in Ji'nan. Many of them are still in the chain operation route. Home campus. " Mr.
reporters understand that the Ji'nan Yucai Education, which is closed, has 6 campuses in the urban area, of which only 80 students are in Jigang campus.
[prepayment] a lot of people are "locked up" and then
reporter in the Second Ring East Road, Hongjia District of a number of secondary institutions consulting, the staff are introduced to reporters, they are in advance payment system, and the more the class time, the more preferential. The staff of a secondary institution in the second ring road told reporters that their one to one course tutoring is 110 yuan per class, "the length of each class is 40 minutes, if you need to sign up for at least 7 classes." The staff members, if the number of hours reported, can also enjoy 80 yuan per hour, "as long as you sign up for more than 540 students, you can enjoy such a preferential price, every class time is 30 yuan, very cost-effective." The reporter estimates that if only the minimum enrollment of 7 classes, also need to pay nearly 800 yuan of learning costs. Mr. Lu's daughter had participated in one to one tutoring in Ji'nan education and education Jigang campus. After the school was closed, his account remained 945 hours. "If the class time is few, 90 yuan and 1 classes, I am now 77 yuan and 1 classes, comparing the price, under the recommendation of the staff, I signed up for big class time guidance." "
asked if the students were not able to adapt to the curriculum of the organization, and when they had to refund the fee, the staff of the secondary institution would not be willing to answer the question positively, but only told reporters that if they returned, they would lose a lot. Mr. Lu introduced, in Ji'nan Yucai Education Jigang campus, if the refund, will be calculated in accordance with the price before the discount, "I now on the account of 945 hours, when the refund, before the expense of the class hours will be calculated in accordance with the 90 yuan per hour before the discount, very not."
[price war] cash flow breaks down
although many parents are "throwing gold" in the secondary institution, facing the trend of continuous expansion of private school auxiliary institutions, Mr. Zhang introduced that once the cash flow of this kind of institution development is broken by the cash flow of survival, the questions in Ji'nan education will continue to be put on, "privately run" The secondary institutions and supermarkets, such as the business industry is different, the supermarket has a daily cash flow, and the course auxiliary mechanism is to rely on intermittent registration fees for survival and development.
if the refund tide continues to develop and face huge teacher expenditure, the secondary institution may not be able to eat, Mr. Zhang said. "Especially for the multi campus secondary institutions, the daily open meeting is bigger. If the cash flow is broken during the operation, it may lead to similar events such as Ji'nan education. "."
according to the relevant regulations of the city of Ji'nan, it is necessary to set up a number of formalities for the establishment of a private non diploma education and training institution, such as the need to issue a bid report, and also to submit the qualifications of the host, the school land, the school house and other effective proof documents, and to report the establishment of the administrative department in charge of the county (city) District of the school where the school is located. . At present, many practical subsidiary organizations are playing "edge ball". After the incident, a student parent found that Ji'nan Yucai Education was called "Ji'nan Yucai Education Consulting Co., Ltd.". The registration and registration showed that its business scope included education information consultation, clearly indicating that "no overseas study consultation, intermediary, family education and school education". Insiders said, "but in practice, they are teaching organizations, and there are many such training institutions".
reporters learned that at present, supplementary institutions need to pay a certain amount of security when they submit approval to the education department, but the amount is about tens of thousands of yuan.
Ji'nan, for example, paid a margin of several million yuan to the education department, and Mr. Lu, a parent, said, "I have a loss of more than 70 thousand for a person, and the role of these tens of millions of dollars is very small."
Sun Lixian, a lawyer of St. Yi law firm, told reporters that parents can take a contract fraud to prosecute, "the secondary institution does not fulfill the prescribed time of instruction according to the requirements of the contract. In addition, the amount of the case involved is large, and the parents can jointly carry out the rights protection."
at present, the police have intervened in Ji'nan Yucai "go out of business".