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[Best Brand] Chadwick International provides soil for growth of future leaders

Jun 25, 2014

International School - Chadwick International For the second year in a row, Chadwick International proved itself to be the top international school in Korea. Chadwick International, the second campus of Chadwick School founded in California by Margaret Lee Chadwick, focuses on providing a wide range of education programs, from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade. Since opening in 2010, the school ha...
Concern rises over unregulated private alternative schools

Jun 24, 2014

For students struggling to adapt to school life, alternative educational facilities have been considered an ideal substitute. But recent government data on unauthorized alternative schools has hinted at potential problems lurking behind the idealistic slogans of creativity and “education for future global leaders.” They include high tuition, unauthorized curriculum, and the fact that these schoo...
Ministry vows to punish defiant teachers’ union

Jun 23, 2014

The Education Ministry sent a warning Monday to members of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union, saying they will be “sternly punished” if they choose to participate in antigovernment activities. The announcement made early in the day aggravated the ongoing feud between the government and the recently banned union. On Sunday, the KTU said it would not comply with the government’s deci...
Half of preschoolers get private education: study

Jun 23, 2014

Nearly half of preschoolers in Korea are receiving private education, data from a state-run think-tank showed Monday in another testament to the ever-increasing education fever in the country. According to a report by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education, 31.6 percent of children under the age of 5 studied via workbooks while another 10.8 percent attended private education institution...
[Newsmaker] Teachers’ union to fight for legal status

Jun 22, 2014

The Korean Teachers and Education Workers’ Union on Sunday said it will fight the court’s recent decision to renounce its legal status, as a years-long feud between the left-leaning union and government deepened. On Thursday, a Seoul court ruled that the controversial union is not a legitimate labor group because it violated the labor law that bans dismissed education workers from joining unions...
Teachers’ union loses suit on legal status

Jun 19, 2014

A Seoul court ruled Thursday against the Korean Teachers and Education Workers’ Union in a lawsuit on its legal status, effectively allowing the government to deregister the controversial organization. The ruling was the latest event in a four-year feud between the KTU and the Labor Ministry, which has been accusing it of infringing the labor law. The ministry had ordered the KTU to revise its r...
SNU jumps to Asia's 4th: survey

Jun 19, 2014

Seoul National University, widely considered Korea’s top institution of higher education, took the No. 4 spot in a British magazine’s annual ranking of Asian universities released Thursday. According to the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2014, SNU made the jump from No. 8 in 2013 into the top 5 this year. Joining SNU in the elite top 10 group were Korea Advanced Institute of Sci...
3rd Tomorrow Global Leaders’ Camp to be held

May 15, 2014

The Korea Herald, the nation’s No. 1 English newspaper, plans to hold “The 3rd Tomorrow Global Leaders’ Camp” in partnership with Tomorrow at the Global Campus of Kyung Hee University in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, and at BEXCO in Busan from July 2 to 11. The camp is aimed at providing 500 select university students with an opportunity to foster creative thinking, leadership and a global minds...
POSTECH tops young universities’ list for 3rd straight year

May 1, 2014

Korea’s Pohang University of Science & Technology took the top spot on the rankings of the world’s top 100 universities under 50 years old by the Times Higher Education. The London-based magazine on Thursday published the list featuring higher education institutions from 29 countries. POSTECH, founded in 1986, took the crown for the third straight year. It was joined by a domestic peer Korea Ad...
Students return to tragedy-hit school

Apr 24, 2014

ANSAN, Gyeonggi Province (Yonhap) ― A high school in this city south of Seoul partly resumed classes on Thursday, eight days after a ferry sank in southern waters, taking the lives of many of its students and teachers on a school trip. Danwon High School temporarily shut its doors shortly after the disaster took place on April 16, believing that it would be impossible to hold classes normally fo...
‘Kim’s aunt may not have been elected’

Mar 13, 2014

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s aunt may not have been elected to the country’s rubber-stamp parliament, Seoul officials said Thursday, a possible scenario that could suggest her political fate has been affected by the execution of her husband. Kim Kyong-hui, a senior ruling Workers’ Party secretary, has failed to show up at key anniversary events in North Korea following the bloody purge of h...
Sex crimes against minors soar 53% in five years

Mar 13, 2014

The number of sex crimes against minors rose sharply in the past five years but more than 40 percent of convicted offenders were released on probation, government data showed Thursday. According to the data by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the number of sex crimes, such as rape, indecent assault and brokering prostitution, against children and juveniles rose 52.7 percent from 1,068...
Pakistani woman out to educate children

Mar 13, 2014

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) ― Humaira Bachal knows firsthand how lack of education hurts her community. She had a cousin that died because his mother couldn’t read the expiration date on a bottle of medicine. She knows women in her neighborhood who died giving birth at home because their families didn’t know to send them to the hospital. “These things are breaking my heart and every time I am raising...
Government sets up task force on history research, education

Jan 19, 2014

The government has set up a task force to support Korean history research and education as part of its ongoing efforts to strengthen the field, officials said Sunday. According to officials of the Ministry of Education, the special team was established within the ministry to implement the government’s comprehensive plan announced in August to strengthen history education to better counter false ...
U.S. tries to end school discipline discrimination

Jan 9, 2014

The Obama administration wants to end the apparent disparities in how students of different races are punished for violating school rules. More than half of students in school-related arrests or referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or black, civil rights data show. “In short, racial discrimination in school discipline is a real problem,” according to a letter sent to schools. Civil rights ...

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