SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital textbooks will be introduced in local elementary and secondary schools, beginning in 2025, in response to the growing need for varied learning content, the Ministry of Education said Thursday. AI digital textbooks have been pushed as part of the government’s digital education innovation to offer [...]
SUWON, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — With a drop in the school-age population, more teachers are being put on standby even after passing the teacher certification examination. The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education said that 47 people passed the teacher employment exam for kindergartens in the Gyeonggi area this year. However, none of them were assigned [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence-powered digital textbooks customized to different academic levels will go into use in 2025, beginning with junior elementary students and middle and high school freshmen, the education ministry said Thursday. The plan aims to meet different educational needs of students across various academic levels by harnessing metaverse, AI [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Part-time teachers are increasing in proportion to homeroom teachers in middle and high schools as regular teachers increasingly avoid taking responsibility, a state-run institute said Tuesday. The Korean Educational Developmental Institute reported that among all 110,295 homeroom teachers at middle and high schools across the country as of 2022, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry plans to introduce a “basic quota of teachers” to sustain small schools in rural communities where the population is declining, officials have said. For its mid- and long-term teacher supply plan, the ministry decided to calculate the number of teachers needed by the size of the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Elementary and middle school students in Seoul will be allowed to learn how to break at school next year. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said Wednesday it had signed an agreement with the Korea Breaking Federation to provide break dancing lessons to students as part of an after-school [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 1,860 cases of digital sex crimes have occurred in elementary, middle and high schools nationwide over the past five years, government data showed Tuesday. Of them, 218 happened in 2018, 464 in 2019, 427 in 2020, 461 in 2021 and 290 as of August 2022, according [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to reduce the public school workforce due to a decline in the student population. According to the plan that the Ministry of Education formulated through consultations with other government agencies, the government will lower the number of public school teachers to 344,906 next year, a reduction [...]
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A Nobel Prize-winning economist has confirmed ‘learning gains among the largest ever measured’ in schools by any major study in emerging markets. The study, led by Professor Michael Kremer, 2019 Nobel Prize winner, finds children living in underserved communities receive over 53% more learning in NewGlobe supported schools throughout their early [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — All schools from kindergartens to high schools will resume full in-person classes next month while group activities and school trips will also be allowed again, Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae said Wednesday. The plans mark a complete rollback of nearly two years of low- to high-level COVID-19 restrictions on in-person [...]