SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Fifty-two schools in Seoul that had regulations on the colors and the shapes of students’ underwear removed such rules amid criticism they violate the human rights of students, the city’s education office said Wednesday. The schools, including 31 girls’ middle and high schools, as well as 21 coeducation schools, [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools from elementary to secondary levels reopened Wednesday as the new spring semester kicked off amid the country’s record-high daily COVID-19 tally. Many schools opted for fully in-person classes on the first day of the new semester even though they were allowed to choose between online and face-to-face learning [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools from elementary to secondary levels are bracing for fully in-person classes for the upcoming spring semester, but parents are on edge over infection fears as the country’s daily COVID-19 tally is expected to go up further down the road. With the new semester for most schools scheduled to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The educational attainment gap between students is widening as schools that offer fewer offline classes are seeing students flock to both ends of the academic bell curve, a study showed Tuesday. Researchers from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Yonsei University jointly analyzed the National Assessment of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The fast spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19 has led to daily infections of more than 100,000 people, but it has barely changed the everyday lives of office workers and college students. Many public institutions and private businesses have made few or no changes to their current work-at-home [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools will be allowed to provide full remote classes during the first two weeks of the spring semester beginning in March, the government announced Monday, amid predictions that new daily virus cases will reach as high as 270,000 in the coming weeks. The education ministry said it designated March [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The state human rights watchdog has recommended the education ministry amend the school meal system to provide vegan lunch options to students, officials said Thursday. The recommendation came after a civic group advocating vegan meal choices for students filed a petition with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools will decide whether to stick to in-person classes or switch to remote learning depending on their own virus situations starting in the upcoming semester, the education ministry said Monday. Under a new COVID-19 response plan to be effective for the new semester in March, schools will be given [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools in the capital area will resume remote learning this week as part of a government campaign aimed at stemming the fast spread of the coronavirus, officials said Sunday. Under the latest rules, schools in the capital area and overly crowded schools in other parts of the country will [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Schools in the greater Seoul area will roll back their full in-person classes and go back to partial e-learning starting next week in line with the country’s tightened anti-COVID-19 curbs, the education ministry announced Thursday. Under its restored e-learning scheme, middle and high schools in the greater capital area [...]