THE Ministry of Education recently released an interim regulation on off-campus training management, which will take effect Oct. 15.

According to the regulation, any individual or organization illegally enrolling preschool children, primary and high school students will be punished.

The punishment will be decided by related administrative departments in charge of off-campus training at the county-level and above. The penalties include warnings, fines, license suspension and employment restriction.

According to the regulation, individuals or institutes can be charged with arbitrarily organizing off-campus training if they do not have an official license to operate rooms or websites or applications to conduct training. If found violating norms, individuals or institutes will be asked to suspend the training program and refund all the fees collected, and will be fined one or five times the illegal gains made.(China Daily)