SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The results of a new study demonstrate a clear correlation between increased use of digital devices and lower math scores in students. The more dependent students are on digital devices, including leaving notifications on their mobile phones, the more their math scores decline. According to the ‘2023 Digital Education White [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on January 18 that it has expanded its ’1000 Won Breakfast’ program to cover 4.5 million people this year. The program, aimed at university students, offers breakfast meals for just 1,000 won in an effort to reduce the rate of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The population of kindergarten to high-school students shrank by nearly 100,000 this year from a year earlier, extending its falling streak to the 18th year, the education ministry said Wednesday. The number of students at the country’s kindergartens and elementary, middle and high schools nationwide amounted to slightly over [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed a growing influence of the home environment on students’ academic performance in the wake of COVID-19. Researchers are increasingly focused on the family learning process due to the discovery that children’s scholastic achievements are more intertwined with their home environment and parental conduct than [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — One in four teachers cited insufficient punishment for misbehaving students and parents as the main reason for the increase in the infringement of teachers’ rights, a poll by the education ministry showed Thursday. In the online survey of 22,084 teachers working at 1,315 kindergartens and elementary, middle, high and [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science and ICT said Monday it will introduce a new service aimed at assisting university and graduate school students specializing in semiconductors, enabling them to develop and validate their chip designs effectively. Dubbed the “My Chip” service, it allows students to produce their chip designs at [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost one-third of high school violence victims are exposed to violence on an almost daily basis, a state-run institute said Monday. According to a report released by the Korean Educational Development Institute, regional education offices nationwide conducted a survey last year involving 154,514 students from the fourth year of [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — University students from a federal republic within Russia are currently visiting South Korea, engaging in various Korean cultural events, including paper folding. A total of 27 students from Kazan Federal University in Tatarstan on Thursday visited the Paper Art Museum in central Seoul on Thursday. “I created a paper [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — In the government’s pilot project to ensure the digital right to be forgotten, the highest proportion of individuals requesting data deletion were middle and high school students, South Korea’s data protection watchdog said Monday. According to data from the Personal Information Protection Commission, as of June 30, there were [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The lifting of social distancing rules eliminated the necessity for online classrooms, but elementary and middle school students are increasingly developing a dependency on smartphones, a government survey showed Tuesday. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family conducted a survey involving 1.28 million students from elementary (fourth grade), middle, [...]