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Education woes seen as Achilles‘ heel of BrazilSEROPEDICA, Brazil (AP) _ There‘s a storage room just off a university lab that gives students more experience than many can handle: Skinned pigs and cats, disembodied cow livers, intestines, brains and the other unidentifiable detritus of y...
Updated : 2013.05.16 17:41
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International schools are booming in Korea as more parents and students seek education in English to face the competitive global environment.Located in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, the Taehwa Internatio...
Updated : 2013.05.12 19:39
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This is the second in a follow-up series to one which was published in the Expat Living section on March 6 and 13 and covered the ongoing native English teacher phaseouts in certain regions. This three-part series further assesses the native English teacher program as well as the Teaching ...
Updated : 2013.05.08 20:31
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Seoul education authorities are launching a sweeping investigation into test-prep schools after the Scholastic Aptitude Test was canceled last week due to an alleged leak of questions.The organizer ca...
Updated : 2013.05.07 17:49
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The organizer of the U.S. Scholastic Aptitude Test canceled the college admission exam for Koreans scheduled for Saturday amid an investigation into a leak of exam questions.The College Board, which oversees the SAT, notified Korean applicants on Wednesday of the cancellation via email. Th...
Updated : 2013.05.02 18:19
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This is the first in a two-part follow-up series to one which was published in the Expat Living section on March 6 and 13 and covered the ongoing native English teacher phaseouts in certain regions na...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:48
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On a cold winter day in 1910, American pastor Arthur T. Pierson arrived in Korea, the land of the morning calm. Touched by the people who walked for days to hear his preaching, he decided to set up a ...
Updated : 2013.04.24 20:15
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One of the major pledges of the new government is the so-called “free learning semester system.” The basic concept of the new system is that middle schools implement programs to promote career explo...
Updated : 2013.04.24 20:15
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President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday ordered a thorough overhaul of school textbooks to make them more explanatory and easier to understand, reaffirming her commitment that questions in college entrance and other exams should not go beyond the levels of school texts.“Textbooks must improve ...
Updated : 2013.04.24 20:14
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The education ministry said Monday it plans to match the class sizes of primary and secondary schools to international standards by 2020 in an effort to provide a better educational environment.Under the plan, the class size of primary schools will be cut to an average of 21 students per c...
Updated : 2013.04.22 20:56
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More than 7 out of 10 primary and secondary school students in Seoul participated in private education and other extracurricular activities last year, with a majority of their parents feeling the pinch of high education costs, data showed Thursday.According to the data compiled by the Seou...
Updated : 2013.04.18 20:53
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An overwhelming majority of professors in South Korea turn a blind eye to plagiarism, a poll showed Wednesday, highlighting their indifference to the problem facing local academia.The email survey of 600 college professors showed that 86.3 percent of the respondents either criticize collea...
Updated : 2013.04.17 20:48
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The government on Tuesday announced measures to reinforce Korean language education for children of multicultural families and to expand support for foreign wives as part of efforts to help them better assimilate into Korean society.The latest move comes as increasing numbers of Korean men...
Updated : 2013.04.17 20:37
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The municipal education office here has taken steps to nullify a controversial ordinance to protect the human rights of students, its officials said Wednesday. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education led by conservative Superintendent Moon Yong-lin recently withdrew two cases of lawsuit...
Updated : 2013.04.17 20:37
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Korean universities have taken three of the top 10 places in a recent ranking of Asia’s best institutions.In the first edition of Asia University Rankings released on Wednesday, Korea had 14 of the top 100 institutions and more in the top 10 than any other country, according to Times High...
Updated : 2013.04.11 09:46
