SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than seven out of 10 students who dropped out of medical school over the past three years turned out to be students at colleges located outside the greater Seoul area, data showed Monday. According to Jongro Academy, one of the country’s leading educational institutions for college admissions, number [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry plans to introduce a “basic quota of teachers” to sustain small schools in rural communities where the population is declining, officials have said. For its mid- and long-term teacher supply plan, the ministry decided to calculate the number of teachers needed by the size of the [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to dramatically extend the after-school care and education program for elementary school students in an effort to help relieve the burden of child care for working parents, officials have said. Under the extension plan announced by the education ministry on Monday, after-school child care programs provided [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Universities in Seoul are scrambling to prepare for offline welcoming ceremonies for freshmen for the first time since social distancing measures were lifted in April last year. Seoul National University is holding three rounds of offline orientation programs on Jan. 5, 10 and Feb. 13, the first of their [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education is pushing to enable a wider variety of convenience facilities such as screen golf and large cafes and restaurants to operate on university campuses, an official said Sunday. Efforts are underway to expand the type of convenience facilities that can be installed on university campuses, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Digital school textbooks customized to meet the different educational needs of students in various academic levels will go into use in 2025, beginning with a few subjects, including mathematics, the Education Ministry said Thursday. Harnessing artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge technologies, such textbooks will be adopted in stages beginning [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Public online schools that provide remote education on a real-time and two-way basis will be expanded across the country by next year to comply with the introduction of the high school credit system in 2025. The Ministry of Education announced that it will additionally invite four offices of education [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — As a growing number of South Korean companies attend the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas each year, so has the number of young tech students who are eager to learn global tech trends firsthand. This year, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), one of South [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education recently announced a five-year promotion plan to ensure that lifelong education is available to all. Any adult who is not enrolled in college will be eligible to take various non-degree courses, including one- to three-month courses at universities, and acquire credits and degrees. The ministry [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Elementary and middle school students in Seoul will be allowed to learn how to break at school next year. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said Wednesday it had signed an agreement with the Korea Breaking Federation to provide break dancing lessons to students as part of an after-school [...]