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May 29, 2018 Education

Ajou University creates ‘blended’ online-offline courses for MBA students

Ajou University Graduate School of Business offers courses that are available via online and in-class lectures, which the school says caters to the needs and convenience of office workers looking to study and is in keeping with the trend of the “fourth industrial revolution.”Ajou University was the first in the country to introduce the so-called “blended course” on 2000. As of 2018, 40 offline lectures and 30 online lectures are available each semester, making it possible for students to study a

Teachers call for abolishment of Teachers’ Day

Celebrating Teacher’s Day on Tuesday, Lee Seo-hee felt a sense of awkwardness receiving a paper carnation from a student, as he has often been a troublemaker who would never listen to her.“I know I have to embrace all students, but still it is difficult for me to deal with students when they often tease me and do not respect me as their teacher,” Lee, who has been teaching in an elementary school for three years, told The Korea Herald. In her career, she has experienced some cases of sexual rema

May 16, 2018
Education
SUNY Korea establishes development advisory committee

The State University of New York Korea established a development advisory committee to make improvements as a leading institution in the age of the “fourth industrial revolution,” the school said Thursday. The 13-member Development Advisory Committee led by former Health and Welfare Minister Lim Chae-min, aims to lay the groundwork for SUNY Korea to become the first US university in Korea to lead in innovative education for Asia, the school said. Participants pose at the opening ceremony of SUN

May 11, 2018
Education
SNU to hire its first female Korean economics professor

The economics department at Seoul National University is expected to hire its first female Korean professor in its 72-year history.In posting a job opening for an economics professor last month, the university’s College of Social Sciences said only women are eligible to apply.The college said this was due to the Education Officials Act that calls for policies to provide equal opportunities for both genders in appointing faculty members.Currently, all of the 35 professors at SNU’s economics depar

May 9, 2018
Education
Ministry to announce new guidelines for high school history textbooks in July

The Ministry of Education plans to announce new guidelines for high school history textbooks in about two months, its officials said Wednesday, in what will likely stir another heated debate over some of the politically controversial events.The ministry released a draft proposal Wednesday made by its affiliated research institute on writing guidelines to be used for middle school and high school students starting 2020.The draft will be reviewed by a committee made up of government officials, edu

May 2, 2018
Education
Less than half of Korean parents satisfied with quality of teaching at children's school: poll

Less than half of parents in South Korea are pleased with the quality of teaching their children are getting from school, the lowest among the countries surveyed, an international poll showed Tuesday. Forty-three percent of 1,000 respondents with kids aged 4-18 said they find the education provided to their children "fairly good" or "very good," according to the Global Parents Survey by the Varkey Foundation. It is the lowest level in 29 countries surveyed for the in-depth research conducted thr

Apr 17, 2018
Education
Daejeon to equip schools with air purifiers

Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education will help equip all schools in its city with air purifiers, in order to improve air quality within school facilities in the face of worsening fine dust concentration in Korea. Every kindergarten, elementary, middle, high and special schools will be included in the new decision that was announced Monday. The education office will use 10 billion won ($9.3 million) of the budget to install air purifiers and also attach an air filtration layer to its existing

Apr 17, 2018
Education
Government to increase day care services for elementary school students

President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday announced plans to increase public after-school day care services for children from 7 to 12 years of age to relieve the burdens of households where both parents work.In a policy presentation conference held in Kyungdong Elementary School in Seoul, Moon explained the plan to expand day care services to allow 200,000 more elementary school students to use the services by the end of 2022. President Moon Jae-in (Yonhap)“The government and the society should be resp

Apr 5, 2018
Education
[Herald Interview] ‘Strong foundation of mother tongue important in learning English’

SJA Jeju principal stresses importance of play in children’s education

Apr 3, 2018
Education
Education Ministry to provide more free online lectures

(K-MOOC website)The Ministry of Education announced Thursday that it will widen the scope of its Korean Massive Open Online Course service to provide up to 500 free lectures.K-MOOC is a free web-based course service that offers lectures from universities via e-learning technology. It provided 140 courses from domestic leading universities in 2016 and aims to nearly triple that number to 500 in 2018.K-MOOC has doubled in the number of students participating with interactive learning opportunities

Mar 30, 2018
Education
[Herald Interview] Breaking stigma against 2-year vocational college

KCCE chairman talks on the need to reevaluate of labor and education in Korea

Mar 23, 2018
Education
Dwight School Seoul students perform at Carnegie Hall

Eighteen students from Dwight School Seoul joined 240 students from Dwight campuses around the world to perform at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 13, in honor of their Chancellor Stephen Spahn, the longest-serving head of school in the United States. Dubbed “A Sky Full of Music,” the largest concert in the school’s 146-year history featured several pieces of classic, jazz, traditional Korean and Chinese tunes with a celestial theme. All tickets were sold out at the Carnegie Hall’s iconic 2,800-seat Stern

Mar 23, 2018
Education
Ewha professors granted autonomy in student-scoring method

Ewha Womans University announced Monday a test of a new grading system in which professors are entitled to choose how to grade students over the coming year.The new system aims to allow professors to evaluate students more appropriately in regards to the characteristics of the classes, according to the university.Professors may choose between new absolute evaluation and relative evaluation systems, or a blend of the two. (123RF)In the new relative evaluation method, the number of students who ca

Mar 20, 2018
Education
Monthly spending on private education up 33 % in 2017 from 10 years ago

Monthly spending on private education rose 33 percent last year compared with 10 years earlier, a survey showed Saturday, pointing to South Koreans' zeal for education.Households spent a monthly average of 384,000 won (US$359.38) per child on private tutoring in 2017, up from 288,000 won in 2007, according to a survey by South Korea's statistics agency and the education ministry.South Koreans spend large sums of money on private tutoring for their children on expectations that private education

Mar 17, 2018
Education
Korean No. 11 most studied language on US campuses

Korean is the 11th most studied language at US universities, according to the latest report from the Modern Language Association, released Tuesday.More than 13,900 students across 2,669 universities in the US were found to have taken Korean language classes in 2016.The most popular foreign language that students signed up for was Spanish, with over 712,000 students enrolled. Spanish was separated by a large margin from No. 2 French at 175,000.American Sign Language, German, Japanese, Italian, Ch

Mar 14, 2018
Education

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