Gyeonggi English Village, which was South Korea’s first residential English camp, has rebranded itself as Change Up Campus as part of efforts to nurture and promote high-quality and future-oriented education for students, according to the province Tuesday. The Change Up Campus run by Gyeonggi Province will provide programs designed to help students to better prepare for the coming “fourth indust...

CHEONGJU, South Korea -- Former US Rep. Mike Honda will receive an honorary doctorate degree from a South Korean university this week for his efforts to help Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, the school said Thursday. Cheongju University in the central city of the same name said it will award Honda with the degree in politics in a ceremony Friday in recognition of his contributio...

Two out of 3 Korean students studying abroad for elementary school are from Seoul and Gyeonggi Province, according to a report released Wednesday by the Ministry of Education. The ministry report showed that in 2016, 15,000 elementary students dropped out of school among some 2.6 million students nationwide. Of the dropouts, 3,400 cited “unacknowleged overseas studies” as the reason for halting ...

The Ministry of Education said Saturday it will gradually remove foreign words from elementary school textbooks to help young pupils better acquire the Korean language. In the first phase, a total of 322 foreign words in textbooks for third and fourth graders will be replaced with Korean ones in their 2018 editions, the ministry said. Most of the foreign words are Korean pronunciations of Engli...

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology took sixth place in the world’s most innovative universities ranking for the second consecutive year, according to Thomson Reuters Thursday. The Reuters ranking of the World’s Most Innovative Universities lists 100 educational institutions that are doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and improve new industries. Reuters ...

Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon appealed to the public Thursday to put aside selfish interests and support the construction of schools for handicapped students wherever they are necessary following a sensational photo showing parents of students with disabilities kneeling before opponents and begging for support. It was the scene of a meeting of residents held in a western Seoul neighborhood early th...

Private institutes offer special lecture packages targeting students who want to use extended holiday to boost grades

SPEECH CONTEST -- The United Nations Project Office on Governance held its first speech contest -- "Let's Talk about SDGs" -- in Songdo, Incheon, on Friday, co-hosted with the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and Incheon Metropolitan City. A total 68 teams of university and high school students applied for the contest to share their insight on the UN-backed Sustainable Development Goals, a set...

The Korea Kindergarten Association on Friday called off its plan to stage a strike next week. The strike scheduled for Monday was averted as the association representing private kindergartens nationwide agreed to continue talks with the Ministry of Education over its demand for an increase in state subsidy. The decision came after the two sides met for talks at Government Complex Seoul in Gwangh...

South Korea’s education authorities on Tuesday declared an upcoming strike by private kindergartens illegal, warning that such collective action “will not be tolerated.” An association of private kindergarten operators is planning a general strike next week to demand a hike in government subsidies and protest the government’s plan to increase state-funded kindergartens. The group says over 3,600...

Contract teachers in public schools will be an exception to the Moon Jae-in administration’s campaign to give all public-sector irregular workers permanent employee status, the Education Ministry said Monday in a decision that looks sure to stir controversy. There are over 40,000 irregular teachers in South Korea who hold part-time or contract-based teaching positions at schools. Permanent teach...

The Korea International School held its annual Gaelic Football Season at its campus in Seoul on Sept. 2, co-organized by the Gaelic Athletic Association and the Irish Embassy, the school said. The event was to promote global friendship and was joined by family members and students from KIS’s another campus in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province, it added. With campuses on three different locations in Seo...

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Ewha Womans University president aims to nurture future talent, rebuild school’s tarnished image

South Korea saw a 2.5 percent on-year drop in the number of students enrolled in kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools last year, government data showed Thursday. As of April, 6.46 million children are attending school, according to data compiled by the Ministry of Education. Middle school students reported the steepest decline of 5.2 percent, or 76,156 fewer students, compared to t...