SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) unveiled Tuesday the TIMSS 2015, a report highlighting international study trends for mathematics and science based on 270,000 elementary and middle school students in 49 countries. TIMSS provides a comparative analysis of educational achievements every four years after students [...]
DAEGU, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – These children may be excited to be studying in an unusual set of classrooms made out of shipping containers, but they’re actually victims of a process to rebuild their school. Daegu’s Dongcheon Elementary School was deemed to be unsafe last year, with high susceptibility to natural and other man-made [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul city education office said Tuesday it will ban elementary schools from giving homework to lower grades starting next year, a move aimed at lightening the burden on households and strengthening the role of public education. The measure is part of a broader plan rolled out by the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Ahead of beginning a new semester in March, many parents are busy preparing for their kids’ entering school such as school bags, uniforms and stationeries. Still it’s not enough, of course, especially when their kids become first graders of elementary schools. This year, as many as 480,000 kids who [...]