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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 ...

May 28, 2018
Education
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...

May 15, 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 Thu...

May 10, 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, th...

May 8, 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 som...

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...

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 concen...

Apr 16, 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 wor...

Apr 4, 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 2, 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-...

Mar 29, 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 22, 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-se...

Mar 22, 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 ...

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 av...

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 universitie...

Mar 13, 2018
Education

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