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[Graphic News] Higher education linked to more happiness

South Koreans who received higher levels of education are happier than those who did not attend university, a study showed Tuesday. The report, released by the Korea Institute for Health and Social ...

Mar 3, 2015
Education
Technology upends higher education paradigm

The technological advances in education ― such as open online courses ― preludes the extinction of conventional higher education models, said Tim Blackman, acting vice chancellor of the Open Universi...

Mar 2, 2015
Education
ETS holds leadership training courses

Educational Testing Service held the 2015 TOEIC Global Leadership Program for college students from Feb. 27-28, providing them consultations and lectures on business skills, officials said Monday. A...

Mar 2, 2015
Education
Spending on private tutoring inches up 1.1% in 2014

South Korea's private education spending per child edged up in 2014 from a year earlier, led by increased expenditures for music, art and physical education, a government survey showed Thursday. Loc...

Feb 26, 2015
Education
W1tr set to aid poorer kids’ education

The government said Monday it was planning to infuse 963 billion won ($867 million) to assist low-income families with education-related costs. According to the Education Ministry and the Welfare Mi...

Feb 23, 2015
Education
Absolute grading for English tests may fail to stem cost burden

The government’s policy to reduce English-language education costs by introducing absolute grading for the national college entrance exam may not be as effective as anticipated, a survey has showed. ...

Feb 23, 2015
Education
Personality test plan stirs concern

The Education Ministry’s plan to emphasize personality evaluations in college entrance has sparked confusion in education circles, with the abrupt cancellation of a government briefing on Monday addi...

Feb 17, 2015
Education
Korea International School boosts learning in greenhouses

Students at Korea International School are helping solve world hunger. Through innovative greenhouse projects, middle school students at KIS are investigating agricultural technologies that may help ...

Feb 16, 2015
Education
Falling population to shift education landscape

Last month, Icheon Elementary School in Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province held a graduation ceremony for only one student. The 13-year-old boy was the sole student to join the school six years ago. ...

Feb 16, 2015
Education
Four colleges banned from accepting new foreign students

Four Korean colleges will be prohibited from receiving new foreign students for a year, the government said Sunday. The Education Ministry said the student or language study visa would not be issued...

Feb 15, 2015
Education
State tracking less than half of university sex crimes: lawmaker

The Education Ministry is keeping track of sex-related crimes at less than half of universities in Korea, a lawmaker told local media on Sunday. Just 78 universities ― 39 percent of 198 universities...

Feb 15, 2015
Education
Seoul promotes teachers’ rights

The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education and a national teachers’ group announced plans Thursday to protect teachers’ rights by providing legal assistance and counseling. In response to growing co...

Feb 12, 2015
Education
Lack of exercise hurting teenage girls: survey

Severe lack of exercise is having serious repercussions for the health of teenage girls, Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education and local teachers’ group said Thursday. According to the SMOE and the...

Feb 12, 2015
Education
Rural schools have trouble attracting students

Schools in rural areas are increasingly finding it difficult to attract new recruits, with declining number of students and parents preferring to educate their children in the cities. Some 120 eleme...

Feb 10, 2015
Education
1 in 5 teachers regret choice of job: report

Over 1 in 5 middle school teachers in Korea regret their choice of profession, a survey showed Tuesday. According to a report by Yang Jung-ho, education professor at Sungkyunkwan University, 20.1 pe...

Feb 10, 2015
Education

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