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Chadwick to host meeting of overseas schools

Chadwick International will host the Korea Council of Overseas Schools on March 11, officials said Monday. The KORCOS is a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization of educators from overseas currentl...

Feb 1, 2016
Education
Yonsei’s new chief takes office

Yonsei University’s newly-elected president Kim Yong-hak took office on Monday at an inauguration ceremony held in the school’s Seoul campus. Kim, 63, has worked as a sociology professor at the univ...

Feb 1, 2016
Education
Education issues set for bumpy year in 2016

The year 2016 is expected to be a boisterous one in the education sector, especially as government policies continue to fuel political and ideological debates about issues including free child care, ...

Feb 1, 2016
Education
Appeals court upholds stripping teachers’ union of legal status

The Seoul High Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the government’s decision to strip the Korea Teachers and Education Workers’ Union of its legal status, dealing it yet another blow in its two-year l...

Jan 21, 2016
Education
Authorities play chicken over ‘child care crisis’

Even as payday for kindergarten teachers across the country looms, the impasse between government and regional education authorities over financing the country’s free child care “Nuri” program persis...

Jan 20, 2016
Education
The rooms where time refuses to pass

Parents, authorities, school officials locked in standoff over preserving ‘memory classrooms’ for Sewol’s student victims

Jan 18, 2016
Education
[Weekender] ‘Elite education vital to help students reach their full potential’

The debate over gifted education in Korea is generally played out between two sides: Opponents argue the special education program is tailored for the select few and undermines the principle of equal...

Jan 8, 2016
Education
Education chiefs propose child care standoff talks

Heads of six education offices across the country accused the government Wednesday of unfairly forcing local education offices to shoulder the costs for its free child care Nuri program, and suggeste...

Jan 6, 2016
Education
Student councils, scholars denounce sex slave deal

A local scholars’ group on Monday called for the immediate annulment of last week’s agreement between South Korea and Japan on wartime sex slavery, saying it is working with 380 intellectuals and act...

Jan 4, 2016
Education
Child care crisis looms as funding standoff persists

Government, education offices dig their heels deeper in strife over childcare funding program

Jan 4, 2016
Education
[BEST BRAND] Korea International School committed to 21st century learning

Korea International School committed to 21st century learning Korea International School focuses on applied learning, where students can apply the knowledge they learn to help creativity, problem so...

Jan 4, 2016
Education
English Village classes beef up public education

With only about 80 million native Korean speakers worldwide, South Korea’s current potential to interact globally is limited. It’s no surprise then that the nation has taken an active interest in pro...

Dec 23, 2015
Education
Textbook row taken to Constitutional Court

South Korean civic groups on Tuesday filed an appeal to the Constitutional Court against the government for “infringing upon the impartiality of education” by taking over the publication rights for s...

Dec 22, 2015
Education
Multiple choice testing can ‘smother creativity’

Vice chief of Seoul National University of Education urges reform in Korean education

Dec 21, 2015
Education
Korea limits tuition fee hikes

The Education Ministry on Sunday announced that it has capped college tuition hikes for next year at 1.7 percent, down from 2.4 percent this year. It marked the fourth straight fall of the maximum t...

Dec 21, 2015
Education

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