SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — On a recent Friday morning, a small number of mostly teenaged students trained their eyes on their American teacher, repeating short English sentences after her and raising their hands from time to time to ask questions. At a glance, they look no different from ordinary students in South Korea, [...]
DAEJEON, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Daejeon Education and Science Research Institute announced on Tuesday that it will soon launch a new ‘Ozobot Program’ at 42 elementary and middle schools that will run until July 15. The program, which was popular among students last year, is being expanded to be held as many as [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean education institutions are scrambling to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) technology in classrooms across the country. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) announced that it is developing a curriculum for a new course on AI technology, which will soon be provided as an optional course for high [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presidential office, the government and the ruling Democratic Party (DP) agreed Tuesday that the country will provide free education to all high school students starting in 2021. To this end, authorities will begin free education for high school seniors in the fall semester and expand it to [...]
ULSAN, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education (UMOE) announced on Monday that it will expand its mobile survival swimming class, which was operated on a trial basis last year. The mobile swimming program, which is a project of the Ministry of Education, is designed to avoid restrictions on the use [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Students in Seoul will soon learn how to negotiate as part of their school curriculum. The Seoul Office of Education announced on Wednesday that it will be distributing an instructor’s guide to educate high school students on labor rights for the first time among 17 offices of education in [...]
RESTON, Va., Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a global association of leading graduate business schools, has acquired The MBA Tour, a well-recognized brand within the graduate management education industry. The MBA Tour supports business schools’ global recruiting efforts by organizing business education-focused events each year around the world. GMAC [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Elementary schools across the nation are busy these days having preliminary calls for their new entrants before the start of the new school year. But not a few schools in rural areas are left with nothing to do but sit on their hands, as they have no students who [...]
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Indonesia Economic Forum hosted a conference today on Connecting Indonesia: A New Five-Year Agenda to discuss key priorities for the nation over the next five years. Panel speakers including Jaspal Sidhu, Founder & Chairman of SIS Group of Schools, and representatives of the Indonesian Ministry of Education [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has revealed that people feel that they are saving more time and money on education when they watch educational videos on YouTube, rather than reading or going to private institutes. YouTube and Macromill Embrain, a market research firm, conducted a study of 1,000 participants between the [...]