Notice on printing the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region basic standards for running township boarding schools”
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XUAR Education Department
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XJT [2019] no. 78
Notice on printing the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region basic standards for running township boarding schools”
Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture Education Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Public Security Bureau, Finance Bureau, Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Housing and Urban Construction Bureau, Market Supervision Bureau, and all district, prefecture, and city Education Bureaus, Development and Reform Commissions, Public Security Bureaus, Finance Bureaus, Human Resources and Social Security Bureaus, Housing and Urban Construction Bureaus, and Market Supervision Bureaus:
In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the “State Council opinions on coordinating and promoting the development of political reform for the integration of intra-county urban-rural compulsory education” (GF [2016] no. 40), the “State Council General Office guiding opinions on comprehensively strengthening the construction of small-scale rural schools and township boarding schools” (GBF [2018] no. 27), the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region implementation opinions on coordinating and implementing the reform and development of integrated intra-county urban-rural compulsory education” (XZF [2018] no. 48), and the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region General Office implementation opinions on comprehensively strengthening the construction of small-scale rural schools and township boarding schools” (XZBF [2018] no. 154), and in order to effectively strengthen construction of boarding schools in townships, and to run the necessary rural small-scale rural schools, seven departments, including the autonomous regional Education Department, have jointly formulated the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region basic standards for running township boarding schools” and the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region basic standards for running small-scale rural schools,” which are hereby printed and distributed to you, and each jurisdiction is invited to implement them conscientiously.
[Each of the above seven agencies’ seals is applied to the doc, and dated July 4, 2019]
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region basic standards for running township boarding schools
Chapter 1 General principles
Article 1 These standards have been formulated in order to strengthen construction of the system of township boarding schools, to raise the levels of running compulsory education schools, and in accordance with the provisions of such laws, regulations and policies as the “Compulsory education law of the People’s Republic of China,” “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region implementation opinions on coordinating and promoting the reform and development of integrated intra-county urban-rural compulsory education” (XJF [2018] no. 48), and the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region General Office implementation opinions on comprehensively strengthening the construction of small-scale rural schools and township boarding schools” (XZBF [2018] no. 154), and by integrating the realities of the autonomous region.
Article 2 These standards are applicable to township compulsory education schools with boarding students, and they are the foundation for compulsory education schools to realize standardized construction, basic balance in intra-county compulsory education and quality balanced development, and the foundational basis for carrying out supervision and evaluation.
Chapter 2 Establishing schools
Article 3 The establishment of schools should comply with requirements for the development of education in the autonomous region, with comprehensive consideration of such factors as the development of new urbanization, implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, changing trends among local schoolchildren, and of geography, transportation, the environment, and safety, and by seeking truth from facts with the scientific and rational establishment of township boarding schools. In principal, elementary grades 1–3 do not board if a school is nearby and the journey time in general does not exceed half an hour; grades 4–6 may board at those schools with the requisite conditions; township junior high schools [Ch: chuzhong] are in principal boarding. Specifics shall be determined by the county-level People’s Government based on local realities.
Article 4 The site chosen for a school should be on a safe lot with relatively convenient transportation, high elevation, relatively good geology, far from sources of pollution, and environmentally suitable, and with relatively complete public facilities; venues that impact upon educational and teaching activities such as public places of entertainment, religious venues, and bazaars, should be avoided, and the lot should comply with the autonomous region’s development requirements for education and school distribution planning, and meet the corresponding establishment requirements.
Chapter 3 Dormitories, canteens, and other rooms
Article 5 Township boarding system schools should be provided with a teaching area, a sports area, a green area, and a living area. The living areas includes: a student dormitory and canteen, and those with the requisite conditions should allocate a public activities room, a bathroom, and a [clothes] drying space. The student dormitory and canteen should be far from sources of noise and all forms of pollution, on a lot chosen for good daylight conditions, and which is both bright and well-ventilated, and has a convenient water supply, and may not be situated in basements or sub-basements. The building’s floor space should be determined in accordance with the number of students in the school, with specific reference to “Construction standards for ordinary rural elementary and middle schools” (JS no. 109-2008).
Article 6 The student dormitory should be comprised of a living room, a management room, a washroom, a toilet, a storage room, and a room for cleaning appliances. The dormitory living room should be arranged centrally, and level walkways in dormitories with corridors should not be inappropriately long. The average living area per person should be no less than 3 square meters, and corresponding dormitory space for dormitory staff and storage space should be reserved. The ratio of the window-to-floor area in the living room should be not less than 1:7. The service radius between washrooms and toilets should be not more than 30 meters, and those with the requisite conditions should be allocated within the dormitory building. Toilets should be equipped with harmless treatments or water flushes. There should be one third more squat points in the girls’ toilets than in the boys’ toilets.
Article 7 The minimum permissible distance between the location of the canteen and such sources of pollution as livestock pens, toilets, cesspools, garbage storage stations (pools) and sewage discharge points independent of the school, is 25 meters. The canteen should not be located adjacent to the teaching rooms, and should be established in a direction downwind from the teaching rooms and dormitory area, and upwind of toilets independent from the school. Noise from the kitchen, and discharged cooking smoke and odors must not affect the teaching environment.
The canteen should post valid catering service licenses, and post all food safety management rules and regulatory systems, valid health qualification certification for canteen personnel, and valid food safety awareness training certification in a prominent position in the canteen. The canteen’s refrigerated storage equipment, disinfecting equipment and storage cabinets for detergents and disinfectants should have clear signage.
The canteen should generally include a staff changing room, a raw materials storage room, a food processing and preparation work room, a meal preparation room, a venue for food sales, and a venue for dining, and the roof should be treated to be waterproof and moisture-proof. The personal hygiene of the canteen staff should be inspected at fixed times, and they should wash and clean regularly. The layout of the food processing area should be set in accordance with a flow of the raw materials’ entry, the raw materials’ processing, semi-finished product processing, and finished product supply. The canteen processing rooms and interior equipment should comply with the “Hygiene management regulations for school canteens and communal student eating.” The ordering and purchase of food must be achieved via a complete system of inspection, registration, storage, and usage registration to ensure that processing details are accurate and to avoid the occurrence of mass food safety incidents. The minimum usable floor space for the kitchen processing and operations room shall not be less than eight square meters. Walls should have a dado made from waterproof, moisture-proof and washable materials higher than 1.5 meters; the floor should be constructed of waterproof, non-slip, non-toxic, and easy-to-clean materials with a degree of slope to facilitate cleaning and drainage.
The school canteen should be constructed in accordance with the number of diners, with the usable space for teaching staff no less than 1.7 square meters per person, a usable space of no less than 1.5 square meters per person for students, and no less than 1.2 square meters per junior high students, and the number of student seats in the canteen should not be less than two thirds of the number of dining students.
Article 8 A school must be provided with a health (healthcare) room. The health room should be constructed with a floorspace greater than 40 square meters, the usable floorspace of the health room should be greater than 15 square meters, and there should be functional separations to meet the requirements of school healthcare work.
Article 9 Schools should be provided with a psychological guidance room. The position selected for the psychological guidance room should be relatively peaceful and conveniently accessed. The usable floorspace should not be less than 25 square meters. The environmental layout of the psychological guidance room should fully consider the particularities of psychological health and education work, and the physical and mental development characteristics of adolescents, manifesting humanized and humane concern. The interior environment should be in accordance with the requirements of the “Construction guide for elementary and middle school psychological guidance rooms,” with the reasonable use of color, lighting, and décor. During individual guidance, student privacy must be fully ensured.
Article 10 In accordance with the provisions of “Construction standards for ordinary rural elementary and middle schools” (JS no. 109-2008), a township boarding system school guard duty room (communication duty room) shall have such functions as sending, receiving and dispatching guards, and night duty. A township boarding system school guard duty room floorspace is 20 square meters.
Chapter 4 Facilities and equipment
Article 11 The student dormitory area should be provided with clear locational signage and directional signage. The dormitory building should be provided with a floor layout plan, safety evacuation instructions with a map bearing clear directional signage, and all rooms should be provided with clear signage and name plates; basic information including dormitory management regulations, contact information for on-duty staff, student names, student classes, and contact information for class teachers should be conspicuously posted in each dormitory.
Article 12 Schools should be equipped with the necessary living facilities and security equipment for education and administration. The construction of modernized teaching equipment should satisfy the requirements for education using information technology.
(1) Educational and school management equipment. The amount of educational and school management equipment should be decided in accordance with the number of school students, with particular reference to the relevant Ministry of Education’s relevant standards and regulations.
(2) Student dormitory equipment. Student residential rooms should be equipped with beds, lockers (boxes), lighting equipment, and be equipped with safe ventilation and heating equipment according to the local climate. Ensure there is one bed per person, and that beds are firm and sturdy, that the surface area of the bed is appropriate for the student’s form, that the upper berth of bunk beds is equipped with a fall prevention bar (board), and ensure that the equipment has passed safety and quality [assessments].
(3) Student dormitory area. School dormitory areas with the requisite conditions should be equipped with wash basins or washbasin faucets, drinking water equipment, clothes washing and drying equipment, squat toilets, urinals, dedicated telephones, first aid kits, and a basic tool kit, etc., and all light bulbs, outlets, and wiring should be in place, and there should be no hidden safety risks. Prefectures with the requisite conditions should be equipped with shower facilities. The amount of equipment provided should satisfy student usage requirements.
(4) Security equipment. Security equipment should be in accordance with the provisions of the Ministry of Education’s and the Ministry of State Security’s “Secondary, primary, and kindergarten school security and prevention work standards (trial)” (GZ [2015] no. 168), and schools should be equipped with the corresponding security equipment in the provisions of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region local “Standards for anti-terrorism prevention arrangements and specifications – schools.”
(5) Canteen equipment. The canteen should be equipped with equipment and installations for cooking, food cleaning, tableware cleaning and storage facilities corresponding to the number of diners; facilities and equipment for washing vegetable, meat, and tableware must not be mixed-use; raw and cooked food, and main and non-staple food processing equipment should be kept strictly separate. Canteen dining utensils should be made from wear-resistant, easy-to-clean non-toxic materials. The canteen should be equipped with adequate ventilation, lighting, and smoke extraction devices, as well as effective equipment and installations for repelling flies, preventing dust, preventing rats, and for waste water discharge, and waste storage; canteens must be equipped with refrigerators and specialized food storage containers sufficient for storing food; in canteens using such fuels as liquefied petroleum gas, diesel, and methanol, the gas (liquid) storage facilities must be equipped with the relevant facilities to satisfy fire prevention requirements.
(6) Health care equipment. Health care equipment should be in accordance with the requirements for secondary and primary school health (healthcare) rooms, and should be equipped with basic facilities such as corresponding equipment and first-aid kits.
(7) Psychological health equipment. In accordance with the relevant requirements of the “Secondary and primary school psychological guidance room construction guide,” corresponding facilities should comply with basic functionality for psychological guidance, assessments, activities, and office receptions. There should be a psychological mailbox outside the psychological guidance room.
(8) Environmental requirements. Boarding system schools should be in a clean, beautiful and safe environment, the interiors should be comfortable and clean, and outdoor activity areas should comply with the school’s requirements for cultural facilities.
Chapter 5 Staffing
Article 13 In accordance with the relevant national and autonomous regional requirements, and in accordance with actual needs, a school’s internal institutions should be rationally arranged, and fully provided with teachers and teaching assistants for each subject. Staff among those provided to a boarding system school should mainly include:
(1) Management personnel. The school’s Party Group Secretary is the primary person responsible while boarding students are in study and are resident at the school. Functional departments such as school affairs, educational affairs, general affairs, and political education should appoint people to certain posts to participate in the management of boarding students’ study and lives while at the school. Schools with more than 800 boarding students should have grade group teachers participating in management. Management personnel should have experience of school management and experience of corresponding professional management, and be familiar with the circumstances of dormitory students’ studies and lives.
(2) Study guidance personnel. A specialized teacher should be appointed for boarding students’ after-class study and physical activity time. After-class study guide teachers should be teachers from the classes they are in post to teach, and extracurricular cultural and sports activities instructors should be assigned according to the activity project. Specialized teachers should have teaching qualification certification appropriate for their posts.
(3) Dormitory management personnel. Student dormitories should assign a rotating person in charge, an on-duty teacher, and a dormitory manager. Schools with the requisite conditions should also assign nursery staff for boarding students in lower elementary grades. Schools with the requisite conditions should assign a night-duty doctor. Dormitory management personnel should be assigned in accordance with the numbers of dormitory students, with at least one dormitory management personnel per building/ per building floor, and boys and girls dormitories should be provided with dormitory management personnel of the same gender. Dormitory management personnel should be of good moral character, have a strong sense of responsibility, and have strong management abilities; the on-duty doctor should be a full-time specialized health professional technician with professional qualification certification, and have a strong sense of responsibility and be loving.
(4) Canteen management personnel. The canteen should be assigned such personnel as canteen procurement personnel, canteen cooks, canteen food distribution personnel, and storage security and management personnel. Boarding system schools should be assigned with one canteen worker for every 60–70 dining students. Schools with under 200 students should be assigned with one canteen worker for every 40 boarding students. Canteen employees should have valid health certification and valid food safety awareness training certification; canteen employees must have mastered relevant basic food hygiene requirements.
(5) Healthcare personnel. Health professionals and technical personnel should be assigned. Health professionals and technical personnel should have health professional qualification certification. Health professionals and technical personnel should be subject to school health professional knowledge and first-aid skills training, and acquire the corresponding qualification certification.
(6) Psychological counselling personnel. The psychological guidance room should be assigned at least one full-time or part-time psychological health education teacher, and gradually increase the proportion of full-time staff. In principle, full-time and part-time teachers must have a bachelor’s degree in psychology or a related major, and must have acquired the corresponding qualification certification, undergone in-post training, and be in possession of the basic theory, professional knowledge and operational skills for psychological counselling, and receive a certain amount of professional training on a regular basis.
(7) Security guard personnel. There should be at least two full-time security guard personnel; dormitory system schools with more than 100 students but less than 1000 should have at least four full-time security guard personnel; schools with more than 1000 students should have one additional full-time security guard personnel assigned for every additional 500 students.
Chapter 6 School running costs
Article 14 According to the various national and autonomous regional funding guarantee mechanisms for schools of all types at all levels, funds are to be allocated in full and in a timely manner to ensure that public funding in the school’s financial budget and the living allowances for boarding students from families with economic difficulties are implemented in accordance with the prescribed standards, thereby establishing a long-term mechanism for the maintenance and renovation of school buildings.
Chapter 7 By-laws
Article 15 Non-state schools at the compulsory education stage shall abide by this standard unless otherwise stipulated by the autonomous regional people’s government’s laws and regulations and other regulations.
Unless otherwise specified, special education schools may refer to this standard for implementation.
Article 16 For any unresolved matters, refer to the “Notice on printing and distributing the basic standards for compulsory education schools in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (trial)” (XJJ [2011] no. 23).
Article 17 This standard is in implementation from the date of its issue.
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