SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Korean universities are having difficulty recruiting new students due to a sharp decline in the school-age population resulting from a rapidly dropping birth rate. Against this backdrop, the number of universities that are attempting to downsize through mergers and integration is increasing. The Mungyeong [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The level of achievement in the field of mathematics among high school students dropped due to the pandemic, as schools struggled to provide offline classes, particularly among students with lower academic performance, a study showed Sunday. A research team from Korea University analyzed the national survey of academic achievement, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul government plans to nurture around 4,000 high school graduates with expertise in semiconductors by 2031 to help tackle manpower shortages facing domestic chipmakers, its education chief said Wednesday. Some 4,050 semiconductor talents will be nurtured at vocational high schools in the capital city by 2031 by cooperating [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The term “free democracy” will return to secondary school textbooks beginning in 2025 to define South Korea’s national identity, five years after it was deleted during the previous administrative. According to the education ministry’s administrative notice disclosed Wednesday, “free democracy” and “free democratic basic order” will replace “democracy” in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Bang Si-hyuk, founder and chairman of Hybe, the entertainment firm behind K-pop supergroup BTS, donated 5 billion won (US$3.5 million) to a local charity, it has said. The donation will be used to help out-of-school youths and those in residential care facilities get fair educational opportunities without discrimination, the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Those who pass the teacher employment exam for elementary schools in Seoul currently have to wait for more than a year before getting a job, government data showed Tuesday, amid declining demand for teachers resulting from the decrease in the number of school-age children and a plunging birth rate. New [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — As children have fewer opportunities to write manually, many of them are ending up with ‘ugly’ handwriting. A 46-year-old elementary school teacher surnamed Jeong is shocked every time she grades the students’ homework because of bad handwriting, even for a 1st-grade elementary school student. “It becomes a habit for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the freshmen at Seoul National University (SNU), one of South Korea’s most prestigious universities, two out of three came from the greater Seoul area, including affluent districts of Gangnam, Seocho and Songpa in southern Seoul, data showed Tuesday. According to data that Rep. Kang Min-jung of the Democratic [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean education content provider Visang Education Inc. said Tuesday it has inked an initial agreement to supply its interactive English education program to Vietnam’s ALAB, as it sees demand for quality English education programs growing in the Southeast Asian country. The program, designed for middle school students, uses [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of students’ infringements of teachers’ rights is increasing in recent days, amid ongoing controversy over a video of a male middle school student lying on the teacher’s platform with a mobile phone in his hands during class, data showed Sunday. According to the data that Democratic Party [...]