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Chinese still major part of education market

Nov 2, 2014

As China rises as the prime candidate to be the world’s next superpower, an increasing number of people in Korea are learning Chinese. The tendency for both children and adults to study the language continues to grow as bilateral cooperation between Korea and China remains strong. The market for Chinese language education has been growing by some 20 percent annually for the past 10 years, accor...
(Photo News) Trick or treaters

Nov 2, 2014
Ministry to correct faults in college admission test

Oct 31, 2014

South Korea’s Education Ministry said Friday it would not challenge the recent ruling on a flawed question on the college entrance exam last year and would take measures to adjust the affected students’ scores, a move that is likely to have an impact on thousands of students’ college admission results. Everyone who took the world geography test that contained the cited question will get credit f...
Seoul to deprive six high schools of elite status

Oct 31, 2014

Seoul’s education chief Cho Hi-yeon announced Friday that six autonomous private high schools would become regular schools, backpedaling from the original plan to revoke the rights of eight schools. The six schools will have their privileges ― mainly leeway over curriculum ― revoked by the 2016 school year. “I’ve decided cancel the designations of six autonomous private high schools and delay t...
Seoul educational office to shut six elite schools

Oct 31, 2014

Six out of 14 elite high schools in Seoul metropolitan city will be stripped of their privileges for improperly implementing their curriculum, the Seoul educational office said Friday. The office, however, withheld a decision on two other schools after they vowed to give up their right to select students based on their test scores. The phase-out of private high schools with the right to autonom...
Cornered autonomous schools take step back

Oct 30, 2014

Seven of eight autonomous private high schools that did not pass the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education’s recent quality test have said they are willing to make improvements, a significant retreat from their initial stance that the SMOE evaluation was illegitimate. Earlier this week, the SMOE urged the schools to submit plans to address the problems pointed out during the September evaluatio...
Humanities Week to start on Monday

Oct 21, 2014

South Korea’s Education Ministry on Tuesday said a series of events including lectures and forums will be held next week under the title “2014 Humanities Week” as part of efforts to promote the humanities among the public. A total of 46 organizations including universities, government bodies and civic groups will partake in the annual event, cohosted by the ministry and the National Research Fou...
Samsung school accused of unfair admissions

Oct 21, 2014

Opposition lawmakers accused a Samsung-funded high school of operating what he called an “unfair” admissions program during a parliamentary audit on Tuesday, dredging up a months-old dispute from earlier this year. Chung Nam Samsung Academy in Asan, South Chungcheong Province, appears to be infringing upon the people’s constitutional right to receive education by allocating over 70 percent of st...
Korea to ditch grade curve for state English exam

Oct 20, 2014

Korea will implement an absolute grading system for the English section of the state-run college entrance exam, the Education Ministry said Monday at its first public hearing on the new policy. Experts gathered to discuss how the new grading system can contribute to the ministry’s goal of reducing what President Park Geun-hye has described as “excessive English education.” The hearing was cohost...
Legal experts discuss future of law schools

Oct 19, 2014

Legal experts from across the country discussed the pros and cons of Korean law schools at a public hearing on the 6-year-old system at the Korea Press Center in Seoul on Friday. In light of an upcoming drastic change to Korea’s legal certification system ― the abolishment of the national bar exam in 2017 ― pundits discussed whether the law school system was an ideal way to certify practitioners...
Students win college entrance exam case

Oct 16, 2014

An appeals court said Thursday one of the questions from last year’s college entrance exam, the Suneung, had a defect, ruling in favor of four test-takers who requested that the grading on the cited question should be nullified. The four plaintiffs had challenged a question on 2013 the Suneung’s world geography exam concerning the gross domestic product of member counties of the North American F...
No exit in sight for education budget conundrum

Oct 16, 2014

Central government, local education offices in standoff over new welfare programs
HUFS to host introductory session for studying in Europe

Oct 16, 2014

An introductory session for students looking to study in Europe will be held at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, officials said Thursday. The Study and Research in Europe fair on Oct. 30 at the university’s Obama Hall, will provide information related to studying in European countries such as scholarship programs, application processes and curriculums. It is cohosted by a delegation from t...
Chadwick to hold open house for 2015-16 school year

Oct 16, 2014

Chadwick International will hold information sessions and an open house for the 2015-16 school year next Thursday, school officials said. The sessions will provide information on its curriculum along with a campus tour for prospective students and their parents. Students of all grades will be invited to the campus, located in Songdo, Incheon, to learn about the school. A session for pre-kinderg...
Teachers doubt benefits of early English education

Oct 15, 2014

Most parents of preschoolers believe that learning English at an early age can be effective, but teachers are more doubtful of the supposed effects of “the earlier, the better” approach, a survey showed Wednesday. About 71.9 percent of parents whose children are in kindergarten said they approve of preschoolers getting English education while only 40.8 percent of kindergarten teachers thought it...

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