South Korea’s Education Ministry said Friday it would not challenge the recent ruling on a flawed question on the college entrance exam last year and would take measures to adjust the affected students’ scores, a move that is likely to have an impact on thousands of students’ college admission results. Everyone who took the world geography test that contained the cited question will get credit f...

Six out of 14 elite high schools in Seoul metropolitan city will be stripped of their privileges for improperly implementing their curriculum, the Seoul educational office said Friday. The office, however, withheld a decision on two other schools after they vowed to give up their right to select students based on their test scores. The phase-out of private high schools with the right to autonom...

Seven of eight autonomous private high schools that did not pass the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education’s recent quality test have said they are willing to make improvements, a significant retreat from their initial stance that the SMOE evaluation was illegitimate. Earlier this week, the SMOE urged the schools to submit plans to address the problems pointed out during the September evaluatio...

South Korea’s Education Ministry on Tuesday said a series of events including lectures and forums will be held next week under the title “2014 Humanities Week” as part of efforts to promote the humanities among the public. A total of 46 organizations including universities, government bodies and civic groups will partake in the annual event, cohosted by the ministry and the National Research Fou...

Opposition lawmakers accused a Samsung-funded high school of operating what he called an “unfair” admissions program during a parliamentary audit on Tuesday, dredging up a months-old dispute from earlier this year. Chung Nam Samsung Academy in Asan, South Chungcheong Province, appears to be infringing upon the people’s constitutional right to receive education by allocating over 70 percent of st...

Korea will implement an absolute grading system for the English section of the state-run college entrance exam, the Education Ministry said Monday at its first public hearing on the new policy. Experts gathered to discuss how the new grading system can contribute to the ministry’s goal of reducing what President Park Geun-hye has described as “excessive English education.” The hearing was cohost...

An appeals court said Thursday one of the questions from last year’s college entrance exam, the Suneung, had a defect, ruling in favor of four test-takers who requested that the grading on the cited question should be nullified. The four plaintiffs had challenged a question on 2013 the Suneung’s world geography exam concerning the gross domestic product of member counties of the North American F...

An introductory session for students looking to study in Europe will be held at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, officials said Thursday. The Study and Research in Europe fair on Oct. 30 at the university’s Obama Hall, will provide information related to studying in European countries such as scholarship programs, application processes and curriculums. It is cohosted by a delegation from t...

Chadwick International will hold information sessions and an open house for the 2015-16 school year next Thursday, school officials said. The sessions will provide information on its curriculum along with a campus tour for prospective students and their parents. Students of all grades will be invited to the campus, located in Songdo, Incheon, to learn about the school. A session for pre-kinderg...

Most parents of preschoolers believe that learning English at an early age can be effective, but teachers are more doubtful of the supposed effects of “the earlier, the better” approach, a survey showed Wednesday. About 71.9 percent of parents whose children are in kindergarten said they approve of preschoolers getting English education while only 40.8 percent of kindergarten teachers thought it...

A decreasing number of students from Korea’s regular high schools are being admitted to top universities, recent data showed Tuesday, indicating that the education inequality induced by disparity in income is worsening. Graduates from just 42.5 percent of 1,525 regular high schools were accepted by Seoul National University in 2014, according to Education Ministry data disclosed by Rep. Park Hae...