With winter vacation looming, students are filled with excitement, but sadly the reality tells a different tale for Korean students. Instead of playing with friends during break, students are pushed to excel academically by volunteering, attending foreign language camps and preparing for next semester’s classes. Children have no time to spare, as parents organize activities that take place throu...

Starting from March next year, elementary schools nationwide will be banned from running English education to first and second graders. The measure’s stated goal is to alleviate study burdens on young students by banning advanced learning. Currently, English is taught from third grade on. But critics argue it would also lead to the loss of thousands of jobs of English instructors and eliminat...

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 said Friday. "We are focusing on resolving the burden of parents taking care of elementary school students," the official said, noting "We've not yet resolved the low childbirth rate issue, although ...

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 National Institute for International Education on Thursday, the accumulated number of takers of the Test of Proficiency in Korean, or TOPIK, stood at 2.12 million after the most recent test in November...

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 to the college students affected by the November earthquake at the city of Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province. College students at a college in Pohang evacuated to a nearby church after the quake (Yo...

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 the results of the Nov. 23 Suneung college entrance exam Tuesday. Yonhap According to the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, 73.5 percent, or 51,882, of students who sat for the second f...

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 398,838 high school students and 132,489 high school graduates, took the exam this year. Test takers can refer to their scores via KICE website from 9 a.m., Tuesday to 6 p.m., Jan. 31. The website, howe...

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 in five African countries, the Ministry of Education said. The five-year project, known as Better Education for Africa's Rise II, which started in 2017, supports the five countries -- Ethiopia, Keny...

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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 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. PISA is an international assessment of students’ abilities in reading, mathematics and science at age 15. In 2015, PISA examined for the first time h...

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 she wants to study more and become an interpreter here in the future -- an opportunity that seemed out of reach in Syria where a 6-year civil war has left many children and youth without an education. ...

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 the annual college entrace exam at a shelter in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, Wednesday. Yonhap Due to Wednesday’s rare magnitude 5.4 quake and the series of aftershocks that struck Pohang, North ...

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 the first time that the multi-subject standardized test, equivalent to the US’ SAT, has ever been postponed since it was introduced in 1994. Education Minister Kim Sang-kon said in an urgent briefing...

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 school buildings there. The Ministry of Education announced that the date for the College Scholastic Aptitude Test has been pushed back to Nov. 23. The test was due to be held nationwide on Thursda...

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 each student, the school said Wednesday. The 2017 graduation ceremony of Dwight School Seoul As an International Baccalaureate World School, Dwight School Seoul provides international education bas...