Chinese government names and shames private tutoring reform violators

The Ministry of Education published details of people and institutions who had violated the new private tutoring regulations

In some cases, the teachers’ surnames and subjects they taught were published online

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The Chinese Ministry of Education posted five examples of people or institutions that had violated the new private tutoring rules. Photo: AFP

Published: 3:16pm, 27 Aug 2021Updated: 11:00pm, 28 Aug 2021

China’s education ministry publicly released the names and offences of people, schools and companies who had violated the rules and regulations directed at the private tutoring industry this summer.

In a post published on the official government website on Tuesday, the Ministry of Education (MOE) wrote it had “discovered and handled a number of typical cases of off-campus training violations” before listing five cases of the perpetrators.

In a case from Beijing, five teachers were taking after-school tutoring jobs, which now violates the regulations. The ministry listed their surnames, the school they worked at and the subject they taught.

“After investigation and verification, the relevant district education committee gave warnings to the above five teachers involved and removed them from their teaching posts,” the ministry wrote.

A school in Beijing offered ‘summer camp’ type of programmes for students amid a crackdown on the private tutoring industry. Photo: Xinhua

The ministry said that, as summer holiday is winding down and children will return to school shortly, now is “a critical period for discipline training”.