Zhongxin Jingwei, October 25 (Zhao Jiaran) Recently, Zhongxin Jingwei noticed that some domestic advertisements published on social platforms hide mysterious secrets. The content is obviously to provide monthly and domestic services, but when asked in a private message whether it can provide subject training, an agency specializing in domestic service quickly gave a positive answer, and the monthly salary of the tutor provided by the home tutor is as high as 25,000 yuan.
The Ministry of Education's "double reduction" policy has been implemented for several months, and many discipline training institutions in various places have been shut down and transformed, but at the same time, some training practitioners have replaced a "vest" in the form of "high-end housekeeping" and "senior nanny" to move freely in the market. According to the staff of a teaching institution in Haidian, Beijing, it takes about a week to find a suitable tutor to teach side by side.
Intermediary fees range from tens of thousands tutoring qualifications to a mixture of fish
At present, there are propaganda such as "high-end housekeeping" and "senior nanny" on various social platforms, and it seems that under the title and packaging of the tall, the core business they provide is the same: providing make-up classes for children in the employer's home.
On the Xiaohongshu platform, an account with the name of "Huangjia Baby International Housekeeping" said in the introduction that it can provide services such as tutoring, confinement, nanny and childcare sister-in-law. In the notes released by the account, most of them are the resumes of childcare sisters-in-law, nannies, English teachers and other personnel, and some of the teachers who are mainly tutoring the primary school stage also indicate that "general counseling is responsible for all the life of the baby".
Screenshot of the home page of the Little Red Book of The Home Agency
The institution publishes a resume of an English teacher
Zhongxin Jingwei contacted the account in a private message as a consumer and left contact information, and then a staff member added WeChat. Its WeChat circle of friends shows that the institution's service items include confinement, home economics, early education, etc., and has not publicly stated that it provides discipline-based training services. However, when asked whether there was a tutor in junior high school mathematics, English and other subjects, the other party quickly gave a positive answer, and said that make-up classes can also be arranged on weekends.
"Our tutors are divided into two kinds: home and home, the market price of home tutors is 18,000-25,000 yuan per month, and the salary of not living at home is 300-500 yuan per hour. We charge your service fee at 100% of the teacher's first month salary. The other party said that it has hundreds of tutor resources across the country and can try classes at any time, but the trial class needs to pay a deposit of 2,000 yuan.
As for the difference between the resident teacher and the hourly worker teacher, the staff member said that the service content is generally similar. When asked whether the resident teacher is involved in work other than teaching, the other party said that "tutors generally do not do housework, but if your home area is not large, you can do it", and said that the teacher can pick up and drop off children.
Subsequently, the above-mentioned staff sent a message from a tutor and called him "The Eighth Teacher". However, according to the resume and academic qualifications provided by him, the teacher did not obtain the English professional level 8 certificate referred to as "Special Eight", and the resume did not mention whether he had obtained a teacher qualification certificate. Staff members said that some of its teaching resources are "some with teaching qualifications and some without."
In addition, many traditional tutoring institutions also reflect that the current demand for tutoring is relatively large, and parents need to wait for a week to find a suitable tutor to teach side by side. Zhongxin Jingwei found an institution in Beijing called "Zhitu Tutoring One-to-One" through social networking sites, and when asking each other about training as a consumer, the staff said that the institution can currently provide subject and non-disciplinary tutors including primary schools and junior high schools, teachers are former training institution teachers, with teacher qualification certificates, the price starts from 300 yuan per hour, each teaching is 2 hours, and the purchase of single-discipline tutoring services requires 40 class hours, that is, the minimum consumption is 12,000 yuan.
In addition, tutors vary according to the needs of parents, and the price ranges from 300-500 yuan / hour. According to the staff member, it currently takes about a week to find a suitable tutor to teach side by side. "Now the demand is relatively large, and there are many parents who ask for tutors. The whole country does not allow (compulsory education stage) offline make-up classes, for the piece of tutoring, has not been completely and explicitly prohibited, so as long as parents are willing to ask, teachers are willing to go. "In communicating with the above institutions, the other party did not propose any restrictions on the time period for make-up classes.
In the industry: "tutoring fever" or unsustainable
On social platforms, there is a lively discussion about home-based teachers. Some people believe that home classes are similar to one-on-one make-up classes in institutions, and "raise the threshold of make-up classes to the height that ordinary families can't afford to make up"; some netizens believe that private make-up classes are personal behaviors that can be allowed, and "you can do what you like".
Zhongxin Jingwei noted that the tutoring industry can not "grow wildly", and supervision has long been shot.
In early September this year, in order to guide all localities to resolutely investigate and deal with the problem of invisible variation in discipline-based off-campus training, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Resolutely Investigating and Handling the Problem of Carrying Out Off-campus Training in Disciplines in Disguised Violations". It is proposed that institutions or individuals that violate the relevant provisions of training entities and have incomplete licenses should be investigated and dealt with in accordance with laws and regulations in the name of consultation, cultural dissemination, "domestic service", "home teachers", "crowdfunding private training" and other disciplines.
For the recent prevalence of "tutoring fever", Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, said in an interview with Zhongxin Jingwei that the demand for tutoring in the market is essentially due to the demand for off-campus training. He pointed out that at present, tutoring can be divided into two categories: personal and business behavior, compared with the previous training institutions, the tutoring market is more fragmented and disorderly, and it is more difficult to manage. In addition, due to the low transparency of market information, parents need to have higher discernment and pay a higher cost to find the right tutor.
Xiong Bingqi, president of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, told the media that the Ministry of Education is studying and formulating specific guidance on related behaviors, which make it clear that it is illegal to include tutoring for in-service teachers, tutoring for people without legal teacher qualifications, and asking for tutors in the name of live-in nannies. He said that it is necessary to strengthen the supervision force, clarify the principle of territorial management, and channel the needs of parents to improve the quality of school education.
Chu Zhaohui believes that in the short term, due to the "substitution effect" and other influences, the "tutoring fever" may continue to heat up; but in the long run, compared with large-scale institutional training, tutoring services have no outstanding competitive advantage in price and effect, so the "tutoring fever" may be difficult to sustain.
"In order to truly and effectively solve the problem of the tutoring market, on the one hand, it is necessary to regulate the market and supervise and rectify fraudulent and false behaviors, such as the transformation of tutoring intermediaries in training institutions, which need to strengthen management; on the other hand, it is necessary to reduce the training demand from the source, and take measures from both aspects at the same time to truly achieve the effect." Chu Zhaohui said. (Zhongxin Jingwei APP)
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