SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the education ministry has decided to encourage universities to have their foreign students take courses remotely in their home countries in the second semester. The ministry announced on Wednesday that it will carry out foreign student protection and management measures for the [...]
DAEJEON, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top-ranked science and technology university said Thursday it has received its biggest-ever donation from a local entrepreneur aspiring to see the nation produce its first Nobel Prize winner in science. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) announced a donation of real estate worth 67.6 [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More South Korean universities are positively responding to the demand for partial tuition refunds to compensate students for disrupted learning due to the coronavirus pandemic. The National Korea Maritime & Ocean University recently became the first school in the southern port city of Busan to decide to offer refunds. [...]
SEJONG, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — National universities in South Korea must increase the proportion of women professors to 25 percent by 2030, the Ministry of Education said Saturday. The Cabinet approved a revised enforcement ordinance on the hiring of public educational workers on Tuesday, specifying annual goals to reduce gender gaps in professorships over [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry is set to expand Korean language education in Asian nations, by rolling out a support project to train locals there as professional Korean language teachers, the ministry said Wednesday. The plan is in line with the ministry’s core project unveiled in February to bolster overseas Korean [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — As campuses have transitioned to online institutions due to the coronavirus pandemic, schools are left with an agonizing question: Should students be trusted to take online exams and not cheat? While most students uphold academic honesty, some care more about receiving better grades by looking up answers online or [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A university in Seoul is moving to become the country’s first university to partially refund tuition amid the ongoing pandemic, possibly sending shock waves in the higher education circles. As the global crisis caused by the novel coronavirus has created a major disruption in the way the country’s higher [...]
SUWON, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — With the existing framework of education being challenged by the outbreak of the coronavirus, the future of schooling will likely to undergo a paradigm shift from education to learning, a new report predicted. The Gyeonggi Research Institute (GRI) issued on Sunday a new report titled “Future Brought Forward by [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 60 percent of middle and high school students have either played games or watched YouTube videos during online classes. The Institute for Progressive Education conducted a survey of 560 elementary school students, 844 middle and high school students, 785 teachers, and 696 parents from May 20 to [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Monday announced plans to reopen schools a week later than scheduled after dozens of infections coming from clubs in the city’s multicultural neighborhood of Itaewon triggered concerns over a bigger outbreak. “The education ministry, through consultation with health authorities, postponed school reopening for high school seniors [...]