SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak, offline lectures in the education industry are rapidly being replaced by online lectures. Online education company Hunet Co. reported that the number of students visiting its online classes more than tripled this month compared to the same period a year earlier. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — With the start of a new school year looming, most of the major universities in Seoul are still struggling to accommodate all of the Chinese students returning for the new semester due to a lack of dorm rooms. Some point out that measures are needed to prevent the spread [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of online university courses available for free in South Korea will increase to 900 this year. The Ministry of Education announced details of the 2020 Korean-style massive open online course (K-MOOC) on Wednesday. K-MOOC (www.kmooc.kr) is an online open lecture platform that allows anyone to take courses [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of stenographers and sign language interpreters helping disabled college students will increase. In addition, they will be given better treatment. The Ministry of Education announced Tuesday a plan to promote education and welfare support for disabled college students. The number of disabled college students is on the rise, from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Universities that postpone the beginning of classes due to concerns over new coronavirus infections will also carry out all scheduled lectures using makeup classes or online classes. The Ministry of Education distributed guidelines for academic operations to universities on Wednesday. The ministry said that even if universities postpone the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Nowon District in Seoul will pursue a “room-sharing” project in which seniors and college students in the region share residential spaces to mark the new semester. The new housing-sharing project will involve seniors with additional space in their residence providing rooms for college students at a low cost and students in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government on Wednesday advised universities to postpone the start of the spring semester in its latest efforts to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. Following a ministerial meeting on support measures for international students, Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae recommended that schools delay classes by up to four [...]
BUSAN, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of elementary, middle and high school teachers in Busan who want to retire is increasing year after year. According to the Busan Metropolitan City Office of Education (BMCOE), 687 public elementary and secondary teachers and private middle school teachers applied for voluntary retirement in February. The figure [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean universities are taking various measures to halt the spread of the new coronavirus, including the separation of Chinese students deemed at risk of the viral disease, officials said Monday. A recent decision by Seoul National University (SNU) to assemble all Chinese students who have recently visited China [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Students at Sookmyung Women’s University are strongly opposing the recent decision by school authorities that a transgender female has been admitted to the university. The transgender female, 22, received a sex change operation in Thailand last year and was reassigned a new gender by authorities before being admitted to [...]