SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools from elementary to secondary levels are bracing for fully in-person classes for the upcoming spring semester, but parents are on edge over infection fears as the country’s daily COVID-19 tally is expected to go up further down the road. With the new semester for most schools scheduled to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A constitutional appeal has been filed against the Immigration Control Act that allows only those from eight English-speaking countries to work as native English instructors in South Korea, officials said Friday. Migrants Center Friend, an immigrant rights’ group, filed the petition after a Ugandan was denied a visa to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The educational attainment gap between students is widening as schools that offer fewer offline classes are seeing students flock to both ends of the academic bell curve, a study showed Tuesday. Researchers from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Yonsei University jointly analyzed the National Assessment of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools will be allowed to provide full remote classes during the first two weeks of the spring semester beginning in March, the government announced Monday, amid predictions that new daily virus cases will reach as high as 270,000 in the coming weeks. The education ministry said it designated March [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry is considering requiring kindergarten and elementary students to take rapid COVID-19 tests at home before going to school twice a week starting next month, officials said Monday. “We’re conducting discussions while leaving various possibilities open, including a measure to have students go to school after tests [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Universities are cutting down on scholarships based on outstanding academic performance following the COVID-19 pandemic. As online lectures make it more difficult for professors to assess their students’ work, several universities are opting for an absolute assessment system for marking. The absolute assessment system turned out to be more [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog has recommended the education ministry amend the school meal system to provide vegan lunch options to students, officials said Thursday. The recommendation came after a civic group advocating vegan meal choices for students filed a petition with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in [...]
JEJU, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of multicultural students on Jeju Island more than doubled over the past five years, the local education authorities said Sunday. According to the Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Office of Education, the number of elementary, middle and high school multicultural students in the province more than doubled to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean adults who participated in lifelong education programs run by educational facilities such as schools, universities, for-profit private academies and lifelong education centers declined last year, primarily due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a survey conducted jointly by the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign children aged 3-5 in Seoul will receive education fee support equivalent to that for South Korean children from March, the city’s education office said Monday. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education will provide up to 150,000 won (US$126) — 100,000 won for daytime programs and 50,000 won for [...]