SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Elite high schools will be able to keep their status for the time being after the courts ruled 10-0 against the education authorities’ decision to cancel their licenses. On Thursday, Dongsan Christian High School in Ansan, 42 kilometers south of Seoul, became the tenth and last “autonomous private high [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The government’s push to scrap three types of elite high schools in 2025 has come under greater scrutiny following a series of court rulings in favor of keeping the institutions intact. The latest development came Friday when the Seoul Administrative Court ruled that it was illegal for the Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Two “autonomous private high schools” in Seoul won a lawsuit against the local education office on Thursday, in a ruling allowing them to reclaim their elite status. The Seoul Administrative Court said it was illegal for the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education to decide to cancel the licenses of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday announced a plan to transform three categories of elite high schools into general schools by 2025 to promote fairness in education and improve overall public education. The education ministry said autonomous private, foreign language and international high schools will be deprived of their status of [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul education office decided Tuesday to cancel licenses for eight out of 13 “autonomous private high schools” in Seoul, as the education authorities and the government push for scrapping the privileged category of schools and bringing equality to public education. The cancellation came after the eight high schools [...]