SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Michael Apple, an educational theorist and proponent of democratic schools, dropped by the headquarters of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education on September 29 for a chat on education and politics. Apple entered into an easy conversation with education officer Cho Hee Yeon, whom he had become acquainted with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) -It turns out that high school seniors preparing for college entrance exams are severely sleep-deprived. Toz, a business that rents meeting rooms, conducted a survey on 1,800 high school seniors who used their study center. Results showed that 31 percent of the respondents slept five to six hours a night, [...]
![[Quote] Korea’s Private Ed Spending Highest among OECD Nations…Piketty](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Thomas-Piketty--800x441.jpg "[Quote] Korea’s Private Ed Spending Highest among OECD Nations…Piketty")
“Korea is one of the countries among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development members with the highest private education spending. As a way to relieve the problem of income inequality, you should consider raising the investment on public education.” “It is important to strengthen the public education system to make sure everyone in society [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Parents’ burden in the cost of out-of-school private lessons keeps declining since 2009, although the diminishing amount is small, according to a government statistics. Statistics Korea announced on February 27 that the cost of private education spent in Korea last year totaled 18.6 trillion won ($17.4 billion), a [...]