SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — All schools in the greater Seoul area will switch to virtual instruction full-time, as the government decided to raise the virus alert level to the highest next week amid record-breaking COVID-19 cases. The measure will go into effect Wednesday at schools in Seoul, Incheon, 40 kilometers west of the [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — High-speed gigabit Wi-Fi networks had been installed in 310,000 elementary, middle and high school classrooms across the country, and 250,000 laptops and desktop PCs had been provided to teaching faculties as of the end of last month, according to government officials. Since July 2020, the Ministry of Education has [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Middle schools in the greater Seoul area are set to increase the portion of students attending in-person classes starting Monday ahead of the government’s plan to fully resume classes from the fall semester, according to educational officials. Under the plan, the cap on in-person attendance will increase from one-third [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The tablet PCs that were used for a national census last year will be reused in South Korean schools. The Ministry of Education announced on Tuesday that in collaboration with Statistics Korea, it will distribute 11,250 tablet computers that were used for a population census last year to 38 [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry is looking at fully resuming in-person classes in the fall, an official said Wednesday, as online classes have been blamed for widening learning gaps between children. Currently, schools follow the government’s COVID-19 guidelines in determining how many students are allowed to learn in-person while the rest [...]
Bloomington, Ind., April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Arkansas Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), in partnership with Solution Tree, a national professional development provider, has selected the fifth cohort of schools for their ongoing program to develop and expand the Professional Learning Communities at Work® process across Arkansas. In addition to the 39 [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Education on Wednesday declared a three-week intensive period for checking COVID-19 rules for all schools, universities and private educational facilities nationwide, responding to a recent spike in in-school transmissions of the coronavirus. The declaration came as the number of COVID-19 infections among students and teachers has [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Concerns are rising over increasing dependence on the online meeting platform Zoom as a surge in demand has resulted in the video conference program dominating the South Korean market. Public schools tend to use Zoom as their primary remote education platform. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education reported last [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus pandemic continues to drag on, schools in rural, agricultural towns are gaining popularity as an alternative for parents worried about their children being exposed to infections or unable to attend class. Omcheon Elementary School, located in a rural town of Gangjin County, South Jeolla Province, currently [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Preschoolers and lower graders of elementary school will have more in-person instruction this year, the Ministry of Education said on Thursday, announcing a new plan to relax social distancing rules at schools. In a detailed policy for school operation for the first half, the ministry made an exemption to [...]