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Feb 12, 2019 Education

KIS holds scientific technology seminar with MIT students

Korea International School announced that it invited students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology to hold an MIT Science & Technology Seminar for one week, from Jan. 7 to 11, at its Pangyo campus in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. (Korea International School holds a seminar with MIT students. KIS)At the seminar, KIS students took the opportunity to learn about cutting-edge technology. Following the seminar, MIT students attended various classes at KIS for a month and held collaboration clas

Govt. to give 860 billion won in subsidies to universities, colleges this year

The government will pay 860 billion won ($766 million) in subsidies to all universities and colleges nationwide this year to help upgrade their academic competitiveness, the Ministry of Education said Tuesday.Universities and four-year colleges will receive 568.8 billion won of the amount, up about 28 percent from last year, while vocational colleges will be paid 290.8 billion won, up 16 percent on-year, the ministry said. (Yonhap)Unlike in previous years, this year's subsidies will be distribut

Jan 8, 2019
Education
Education superintendent to propose plan for South Korean students to visit NK

Lee Jae-jeong, the superintendent of Gyeonggi Province Office of Education, will propose a plan for South Korean students to visit the North at Wednesday’s railroad groundbreaking ceremony, the education office said Tuesday.According to the office, Lee will participate in the groundbreaking ceremony for a joint project to reconnect roads and railways across the border to be held at the Panmun Station in the North’s border town of Kaesong. A unification flag (Yonhap)There, Lee will propose the p

Dec 26, 2018
Education
Part-time lecturers in Busan go on strike to protest dismissals

Part-time lecturers in Busan went on strike Tuesday, protesting their dismissals less than a month after a revision bill aimed at improving their treatment passed the National Assembly.In a press conference held in front of the university building, members of the Pusan National University branch of the Korean Irregular Professors’ Union denounced the university’s decision to dismiss part-time lecturers and announced a walkout. (Yonhap)“The law amendment made (last month) to improve the poor tre

Dec 19, 2018
Education
New guideline on delaying school attendance to take effect in Seoul next month

A new guideline for delaying elementary and middle school admission for reasons such as studying abroad will come into force in Seoul starting next year.The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced Sunday that it has prepared a revised guideline on encouraging school attendance for children who are subjected to mandatory education, which will be implemented from January 2019. (Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education website)The revised guideline requires parents or guardians to visit scho

Dec 17, 2018
Education
1,000 more classes to open at state-run kindergartens next year: ministry

The Education Ministry announced Thursday that 1,080 new national and public kindergarten classes will open up next year as part of an initiative to lessen dependence on private kindergartens.In a press briefing, Education Minister Yoo Eun-hye announced the expansion plan and proposed measures to improve the quality of service at state-operated kindergartens. Education Minister Yoo Eun-hye (Yonhap)“The Education Ministry and regional education offices agreed to open 1,080 classes next year. In M

Dec 7, 2018
Education
Institute releases Suneung answers

The Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation released the answers for this year’s Suneung, or college scholastic ability test, on Monday, after reviewing complaints filed against this year’s exam questions.The institute, which organizes the multi-subject standardized exam, released the answers to this year’s Suneung, held on Nov. 15, on its website. It said it reviewed all 991 complaints submitted by test-takers and confirmed no errors were made in the 107 questions that faced objections.

Nov 27, 2018
Education
Internet erupts over difficult Suneung English questions

Questions from this year’s English test for the Suneung, South Korea’s national college entrance exam, have baffled the internet community, including many Native English speakers.Final-year high school students all across South Korea took the exam Thursday, but many still cannot get over the difficulty of the English exam.(Yonhap)“When are we going to stop taking these exams with extremely difficult sentences that we are most likely not to encounter?” one user commented on web portal Naver. “It

Nov 17, 2018
Education
[From the scene] As flights stop, Korean students take Suneung test

On the day of Suneung, South Korea’s college scholastic ability test, hundreds of thousands of students looking both determined and nervous flocked to test sites across the country. Cheering crowds gathered Thursday in front of many of the 1,190 test sites, including Yongsan High School in Seoul, to wish best of luck to students taking possibly the most important test for youths here. They beat drums and cheered loudly early in the morning, as test takers made their way through the school gate.(

Nov 16, 2018
Education
Incheon Global Campus to hold joint admissions event Saturday

Four international universities at Incheon Global Campus in Songdo will hold a joint event to promote next year’s admissions on Saturday.Incheon Global Campus Foundation said Thursday that the Ghent University Global Campus, University of Utah Asia Campus, State University of New York Korea and George Mason University Korea will hold a joint event to promote admissions for spring 2019 on Saturday. The event starts 10 a.m. in the IGC main auditorium.(Incheon Global Campus)They will each hold a se

Nov 16, 2018
Education
[From the Scene] Culmination of years of preparation, Suneung is here

Tense atmosphere day before the college scholastic ability test

Nov 15, 2018
Education
3 awarded grand prize in IYF English Speech Contest

International Youth Fellowship awarded grand prizes to three winners for its 18th English Speech Contest on Saturday.The annual contest with it final round in Sejong Hall at Seoul Human Resources Development Center saw total participation of 1,315 middle school, high school and college students. 2018 IYF English Speech Contest winners (from left): Kim Jong-sung of Keimyung University, Park Sun-ae from Cheonan Ohseong High School and Oh Sun-ah from Sesory Music Middle and High School (IYF)The mid

Nov 14, 2018
Education
Ratio of unredeemed student loans edges up in 2017

The ratio of South Korea's unredeemed student loans rose in 2017 for the first time amid the country's unstable job market, government data showed Monday.According to the data from the National Tax Service, 14.5 billion won ($12.8 million) in student loans that should be repaid after borrowers' employment was not paid back last year, taking up 8.1 percent of the total of such loans tallied at 179.4 billion won.The ratio was up from 7.3 percent the previous year, marking the first on-year increas

Nov 12, 2018
Education
Teacher arrested on charges of leaking exam papers to daughters

A Seoul court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for a teacher at a private school on charges that he leaked exam questions to his twin daughters who attend the same school. Earlier in the day, the Seoul Central District Court held a hearing to decide whether to issue an arrest warrant for the 53-year-old teacher, whose identity was withheld. (Yonhap)He's accused of stealing exam questions and answers for his daughters, second-year students at Sookmyung Girls' High School in the affluent southe

Nov 6, 2018
Education
Angelina Jolie's son not on Yonsei admissions list

Yonsei University spoke with The Korea Herald on Monday, denying widespread rumors that Angelina Jolie’s son was on the list of applicants for any of its 2019 programs. The actress visited Korea Nov. 2-4 as a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to express her support for Yemeni refugees in Korea. During her stay here, she took time out for a campus tour of Yonsei University with her two sons, Maddox and Pax. (AP)The tour sparked rumors that Maddox, 17, had applied

Nov 6, 2018
Education

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