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Presidential committee mulls raising class hours for primary school students: official

Dec 15, 2017

The presidential committee on tackling low birth rate is considering raising school hours for elementary school students to reduce the childcare burden on double income parents, a committee official ...
Korean proficiency test-takers top 2 million

Dec 14, 2017

Over 2 million people have taken the Korean proficiency test since it was first introduced in 1997, showing the growing interest in learning the language across the globe. Yonhap According to the N...
Scholarship for Pohang earthquake victims under fire

Dec 14, 2017

The South Korean government drew up a college scholarship plan for the victims of Pohang earthquake, touching off a dispute. The Education Ministry announced Wednesday that it will offer scholarship...
Why Arabic is so popular among South Korean students

Dec 13, 2017

More than seven out of 10 Suneung test-takers chose Arabic as a second foreign language this year, a surprisingly high number given that the language is rarely taught in schools here. Students check...
[Photo News] ‘Suneung’ scores delivered to 530,000 contenders

Dec 12, 2017

Korean students received their results for the annual college entrance exam, Suneung, on Tuesday morning. According to Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, 531,327 students, including 398,...
Korea, UNESCO to support vocational education in 5 African countries

Dec 11, 2017

South Korea and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization held a ceremony on Monday to mark their implementation of a project to support technical and vocational education and training...
[Herald Interview] Preparing students for unpredictable future

Dec 8, 2017

Chadwick International’s incoming head stresses vision, passion and diversity in school
[Graphic News] Korea tops PISA scale in collaborative problem-solving

Nov 23, 2017

South Korean youths scored the highest in terms of their collaborative problem-solving abilities at the Program for International Student Assessment 2015 test among 51 member countries of the Organi...
[Newsmaker] Teen refugees pursue education that was denied in Syria

Nov 23, 2017

When Yana was six, living in Damascus, Syria, her school was destroyed in an aerial bombardment. Since then, she had been out of education. Now 12 years old and resettled in South Korea, Yana said s...
Fallout from Suneung delay felt across industries

Nov 16, 2017

The decision by educational authorities to postpone South Korea’s national university entrance examination due to Wednesday’s earthquake is having repercussions across society. Student studies of th...
Suneung postponed amid quake fears

Nov 15, 2017

South Korea’s Education Ministry confirmed Wednesday that the national entrance examination, or suneung, will be delayed to Nov. 23, due to a possible aftershock in the quake-hit Pohang area. It is ...
[Urgent] Korea delays state college entrance exam for a week

Nov 15, 2017

South Korea decided on Wednesday to postpone the state-administered college entrance exam by a week as a rare 5.4-magnitude quake struck the southeastern city of Pohang and caused fissures in some s...
At Dwight School Seoul, passion ignites student success

Nov 15, 2017

Dwight School Seoul located in Digital Media City, Mapo-gu, believes the key to academic success is igniting every student’s passion for learning and providing personalized learning opportunities for...
South Korea enters full ‘suneung mode’

Nov 13, 2017

With suneung, or the national college entrance examination, scheduled to take place Thursday, education authorities on Monday began moving exam papers and answer sheets to 85 designated locations acr...
Hospitality education, industry brace for new generation of employees

Nov 10, 2017

Swiss Education Group unveils research on emergence of Generation Z and its potential impact on the workplace