China’s Education Ministry Takes Steps to Reduce Teacher Workload

The Ministry of Education in China is taking action to reduce the workload of teachers and ensure they can focus on their primary role of teaching. The ministry is establishing monitoring, reporting, and verification mechanisms to regulate the influx of social activities into schools. They are also simplifying inspection, evaluation, and assessment procedures, as well as standardizing the processes for teacher borrowing and deployment. By streamlining these activities, the ministry aims to create a long-term mechanism that lightens teachers’ workload and restricts non-educational activities within schools. This initiative aims to ensure teachers can dedicate themselves to their primary responsibility of educating students.