SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Elite high schools will be able to keep their status for the time being after the courts ruled 10-0 against the education authorities’ decision to cancel their licenses. On Thursday, Dongsan Christian High School in Ansan, 42 kilometers south of Seoul, became the tenth and last “autonomous private high [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — All schools in the greater Seoul area will switch to virtual instruction full-time, as the government decided to raise the virus alert level to the highest next week amid record-breaking COVID-19 cases. The measure will go into effect Wednesday at schools in Seoul, Incheon, 40 kilometers west of the [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A vaccination program appears to have drawn applicants for a mock test for the college entrance exam, a major education company said Tuesday. According to Jongro Haneul Education Corp., a leading private education institution, a September mock test for the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) attracted nearly eight times [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — While more students in Seoul have adjusted to online classes than last year, even more of them are taking private classes. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education conducted a survey of 891 parents of students at elementary, middle, and high schools in the city, in which a higher number [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Universities and colleges in South Korea are planning to gradually expand in-person classes in the fall semester in line with the nation’s rising rate of vaccinations against COVID-19, officials said Saturday. The Ministry of Education recommended earlier this week that the proportion of in-person lectures be gradually increased at [...]
CHUNCHEON, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced schools into remote learning, a recent study showed that the academic performance of students at schools that have more attendance days deteriorated less. The Gangwon-do Education & Science Research Institute analyzed the second-semester academic performance (from 2018 to 2020) [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools in South Jeolla Province brought all students back to their classrooms on Monday for the first time since the pandemic began early last year, in an apparent sign that parts of the country, at least, are slowly going back to normal. A total of 822 elementary, middle and [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Many South Korean students were found to have fallen behind in Korean, math and English, research showed Wednesday, confirming pandemic learning loss amid yearlong remote learning. The Ministry of Education unveiled the results of the educational achievement research, conducted together with the Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation in [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The tablet PCs that were used for a national census last year will be reused in South Korean schools. The Ministry of Education announced on Tuesday that in collaboration with Statistics Korea, it will distribute 11,250 tablet computers that were used for a population census last year to 38 [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Hybe Edu, an affiliate of K-pop powerhouse Hybe, plans to develop learning material for Korean classes at overseas elementary and middle schools, the company said Tuesday. The company said it recently signed a business partnership with the International Korean Education Foundation to develop support material for Korean language classes [...]