SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The “high school credit system,” which allows students to choose subjects they want according to their career paths and aptitudes, will be fully implemented as planned in 2025, when middle school second graders enter high school, the Ministry of Education said Wednesday. Announcing measures to improve the competitiveness of [...]
BUSAN, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan Metropolitan City Office of Education said Tuesday it has completed a pilot project to transform a school cafeteria, previously dedicated solely to meals, into a versatile cultural space. Due to a decrease in the student population, there has been a rise in vacant spaces within schools. In [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital textbooks will be introduced in local elementary and secondary schools, beginning in 2025, in response to the growing need for varied learning content, the Ministry of Education said Thursday. AI digital textbooks have been pushed as part of the government’s digital education innovation to offer [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Voices are growing for the need to improve the system to foster regional universities because donations to private universities were concentrated in Seoul last year. According to data from the Korea Advancing Schools Foundation, the combined donation income of the nation’s 192 private universities totaled 408.8 billion won (US$309 [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of international students studying at South Korean universities shot up 10 percent on-year in 2022 to set a new record, data showed Sunday, following eased global travel restrictions. Around 166,870 foreign students were studying at local universities as of April 2022, rising sharply from 152,258 tallied a [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) —The use of the virtual world known as the metaverse has been proposed as a potential tool to alleviate the psychological strain on students subjected to school violence during police investigations, according to a recent publication titled “Police Investigation of School Violence Victims Using Metaverse,” featured in the journal Police [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Semyung University, nestled in the heart of the city of Jecheon in North Chungcheong Province, is making waves as it becomes the first Korean institution to pioneer a tuition responsibility refund system. This experimental approach, aimed at providing experience-oriented differentiated educational content, comes at a time when local universities [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Inside a lecture hall at Inha University in Incheon on April 19, students brought out their laptops without hesitation, opened a new session in ChatGPT, and began typing in the questions set forth in their mid-term examination. The university said that it had conducted the country’s first open ChatGPT [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it had created green spaces at two youth centers aimed at enabling teenagers who are excessively exposed to digital media to find mental stability by experiencing nature. The Play Ground, established at the Boramae Youth Center, consists of a series of gardens. The [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Led by the popularity of K-pop and K-dramas, learning the Korean language is rising as a new trend in France. The Ministry of Education said that the number of elementary, middle and high schools in France offering Korean classes jumped from 17 schools in 2018 to 60 schools last [...]