The Korea Herald

High school students don‘t sleep enough: survey

May 28, 2013

South Korea’s high school students sleep as little as five hours a day, according to research data released by Gyeonggi Educational Research Institute on Monday. A GERI survey attempted to identify ...
Education woes seen as Achilles‘ heel of Brazil

May 16, 2013

Education woes seen as Achilles‘ heel of Brazil SEROPEDICA, Brazil (AP) _ There‘s a storage room just off a university lab that gives students more experience than many can handle: Skinned pigs and ...
Officials to investigate hagwon over SAT cheating

May 7, 2013

Seoul education authorities are launching a sweeping investigation into test-prep schools after the Scholastic Aptitude Test was canceled last week due to an alleged leak of questions. The organizer...
SAT exam canceled over possible questions leak

May 2, 2013

The organizer of the U.S. Scholastic Aptitude Test canceled the college admission exam for Koreans scheduled for Saturday amid an investigation into a leak of exam questions. The College Board, whic...
Park orders thorough overhaul of school textbooks

Apr 24, 2013

President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday ordered a thorough overhaul of school textbooks to make them more explanatory and easier to understand, reaffirming her commitment that questions in college entranc...
Ministry to cut school class sizes further

Apr 22, 2013

The education ministry said Monday it plans to match the class sizes of primary and secondary schools to international standards by 2020 in an effort to provide a better educational environment. Und...
Over 70 percent of Seoul students receive private education: data

Apr 18, 2013

More than 7 out of 10 primary and secondary school students in Seoul participated in private education and other extracurricular activities last year, with a majority of their parents feeling the pin...
Majority of professors condone plagiarism: poll

Apr 17, 2013

An overwhelming majority of professors in South Korea turn a blind eye to plagiarism, a poll showed Wednesday, highlighting their indifference to the problem facing local academia. The email survey ...
Minority students to get more help with Korean

Apr 17, 2013

The government on Tuesday announced measures to reinforce Korean language education for children of multicultural families and to expand support for foreign wives as part of efforts to help them bett...
Seoul student rights ordinance faces nullification

Apr 17, 2013

The municipal education office here has taken steps to nullify a controversial ordinance to protect the human rights of students, its officials said Wednesday. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Educa...
English-language instruction in U.S. bleak

Apr 14, 2013

MIAMI (AP) ― Duna Lopez started school in Miami last fall not knowing a single word of English. The 8-year-old girl from Barcelona, Spain, with dark blond hair was placed in the Coral Way Bilingual ...
Korean universities rank high among Asia’s top 100 institutions

Apr 11, 2013

Korean universities have taken three of the top 10 places in a recent ranking of Asia’s best institutions. In the first edition of Asia University Rankings released on Wednesday, Korea had 14 of the...
Danish teachers locked out after talks fail

Apr 3, 2013

COPENHAGEN (AP) ― Tens of thousands of Danish teachers were locked out of schools on Tuesday after negotiations with municipal authorities over weekly work hours failed to produce an agreement. The ...
U.S. schools embrace ‘immersion’ Chinese lessons supported by Beijing

Mar 20, 2013

VENICE, California (AFP) ― Susan Wang couldn’t speak English when she arrived in California from Taiwan, aged 16. Now 49, she heads a school offering U.S. children a similar experience, plunging the...
SNU professor steps down amid plagiarism scandal

Mar 7, 2013

Seoul National University confirmed Thursday that a professor recently resigned after accusations of plagiarizing his thesis published in 2004. A 48-year-old surnamed Kim recently offered his resign...