Guangxi recruits over a thousand silver aged teachers to solve the difficulties of rural education
2025-10-14
Recently, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued a notice on the implementation of the 2025 Silver Age Lecture Plan, which specifies that Guangxi will recruit 1470 lecture teachers for the 2025-2026 academic year. This accounts for nearly one-fifth of the total recruitment volume in the country, reflecting the urgent need for rural education in the vast land of Guangxi and highlighting the unique value of the Silver Age force in the balanced development of education. When batches of experienced retired teachers return to the podium, can they become the "golden key" to solving the predicament of grassroots education in Guangxi? The profound value of the Silver Age Lecture Program lies in the secondary activation and precise allocation of high-quality educational resources. The group of silver aged teachers in our country can be regarded as a "treasure" in the field of education, including top-level teachers, senior teachers, and senior principals, who possess decades of accumulated teaching skills and educational wisdom. The Silver Age Lecture Program guides these valuable resources from cities to rural areas and from surplus areas to weak areas through policy guidance, achieving precise integration between "waste heat" and "essential needs". From the perspective of national practice, since the implementation of the plan, more than 20000 retired teachers have been recruited, effectively filling the teacher shortage in rural schools in the central and western regions. This "blood transfusion style" support has been proven to be an effective path to promote educational equity. For Guangxi, the arrival of 1470 silver aged teachers can be called a "timely rain". As a western province that integrates ethnic and rural areas, Guangxi's grassroots education has long faced challenges such as insufficient teacher resources, imbalanced structure, and uneven levels. In schools in mountainous areas and ethnic counties, not only are there a shortage of teachers for "minor subjects" such as music, sports, and aesthetics, but also teachers for main subjects such as Chinese and mathematics often face the dilemma of a shortage due to the inability to retain young teachers. The joining of Silver Age teachers can directly enrich the teaching front line, and can also carry out "mentoring" through listening to and evaluating lessons, special lectures, and teacher-student pairing, cultivating a "teacher team that cannot be taken away" for the local area. Just as Dianxi University of Applied Sciences has doubled the number of associate senior and above teachers with the support of silver aged teachers, rural schools in Guangxi are also expected to use this force to improve their faculty structure. From a social perspective, this plan has built a win-win bridge between "providing opportunities for the elderly" and "improving the quality of education". For retired teachers, returning to the podium allows them to continue their educational ideals and realize their value in their later years through dedication. For society, this move not only alleviates the "teacher shortage", but also conveys the positive energy of respecting teachers and valuing education, forming a good demonstration of "silver age leading growth". Especially in multi-ethnic areas such as Guangxi, Silver Age teachers bring not only knowledge, but also diverse cultural perspectives and personal charm, which has special significance for cultivating national unity awareness. It is worth noting that the value of silver aged teachers needs to be supported by a sound guarantee mechanism. According to the requirements of the above notice, the annual per capita working expenses for lecturers should reach 20000 yuan, which will be fully borne by the central finance. The assisted counties need to provide turnover dormitories and equipped with living facilities. These guarantee measures have solved the worries of silver aged teachers, but due to the complex terrain and harsh living conditions in some areas of Guangxi's mountainous areas, further measures are needed in transportation security, medical services, psychological care, and other aspects. At the same time, it is necessary to establish a full chain management mechanism of "demand matching pre job training process evaluation follow-up incentives", so that the teaching experience of silver aged teachers can be accurately matched with the actual needs of rural schools, and avoid "adaptation to local conditions". It should also be noted that the Silver Age Lecture Program is not a "panacea" for eradicating educational inequality, but an important support for the stage. 1470 silver age teachers can alleviate the urgent situation, but in order to achieve sustainable development of education in Guangxi, it is even more necessary to use this as an opportunity to improve the teacher training system and form a long-term mechanism of "silver age blood transfusion+local blood production". From Principal Chen Liqun in Qiandongnan to Zhang Baojun and his wife in Xiaochang, Silver Age teachers have demonstrated the precious value of educational experience through their actions. Behind the 1470 teaching positions in Guangxi is the hope of thousands of rural students for high-quality education. When policy guarantees are precise and in place, and resource allocation is efficient and smooth, these silver aged teachers with enthusiasm and wisdom will surely spread hope in the land of Guangxi and inject lasting momentum into the revitalization of rural education. (New Society)
Edit:GUAN LUCIANA Responsible editor:ZHANG LIN
Source:chinanews
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