The Korea Herald

Experts to explore future of lifelong learning

Nov 21, 2012

NILE to host international conference to discuss practices, key challenges
Activist group to provide ‘comfort women’ teaching manual

Nov 21, 2012

A Seoul civic group representing Korean women forced by Japan into sexual slavery during World War II said Wednesday it has developed guides for teachers to use for educating elementary school students on the subject of the wartime victims. According to the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery, copies of the teaching manuals along with DVDs will be distributed free of...
N.Y. high-school students visit Korea

Nov 20, 2012

Representatives from a high school in New York City’s Harlem visited the Education Ministry on Tuesday as part of their two-week cultural exchange program in Korea. Democracy Prep High School founder and superintendent Seth Andrew is guiding 35 students from the school from Nov. 9. The purpose of the trip is to show them all different aspects of Korea, and to broaden their understanding of the c...
Doha invites education leaders for collaboration

Nov 14, 2012

DOHA, Qatar ― More than 1,200 education leaders from 100 countries gathered in Doha on Tuesday for an international forum to discuss how to collaborate for future development in education. The resource-rich state has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars on developing an education system that will secure the country’s economic future when its natural resources run out. Marking its fourt...
Korean plans to set up university in Philippines

Nov 12, 2012

A Korean businessman who runs a four-year college in the Philippines is planning to set up a university in the country. “We’re now in talks with the authorities to upgrade our college as a full-scale university,” said Kim Nang-kyu, the chairman of Ebenezer International College in the Philippines. “We’re planning to open engineering and physical education courses next year. We’re also in talks ...
From good to great: What’s next for Korean higher education

Nov 12, 2012

Over the last 30 years, Korea has experienced unmatched progress in higher education. The percentage of high-school graduates attending higher education institutions has steadily increased, with Korea now ranking first among 25 OECD countries in terms of the percentage of 25- to 34-year-olds who have tertiary degrees. This boom in higher education has led to an increasingly well-educated populati...
Microsoft to help N.K. defectors

Nov 12, 2012

The South Korean unit of U.S. computer software maker Microsoft will sign an agreement with the Unification Ministry to provide support for Seoul’s efforts to educate North Korean defectors on information technology, the ministry said Monday. Graig Shank, the general manager for Microsoft’s international affairs team, will meet with Minister Yu Woo-ik on Tuesday to sign the deal, according to th...
Elite education not a surefire path to success

Nov 12, 2012

Lawyer-turned-educator emphasizes importance of creative learning, interactive English study
Moon pledges to curb education costs

Nov 5, 2012

Democratic United Party presidential candidate Moon Jae-in pledged Monday to introduce a package of reforms to curb soaring private education costs and competition. “In recent years, the competition for private education has expanded from middle and elementary schools to kindergartens,” Moon told reporters. The presidential candidate said that so-called prestigious high schools in the nation ha...
Education is now a global issue

Nov 5, 2012

There is an exclusive set of issues that is regarded as “global.” War, humanitarian disasters, international development and economics are issues where people think, act and care beyond the borders of their own state. In a few weeks’ time, at the Qatar National Conference Center in Doha, innovators from a wide variety of sectors around the world will come together to add another issue to this ex...
Korean schools embrace multicultural society

Nov 5, 2012

International teacher exchange programs help students learn different cultures, languages
Stricter security checks at schools

Nov 4, 2012

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced Sunday that it will strengthen security checks at primary and secondary schools as part of measures against school violence and crimes. From early next year, all visitors including parents at elementary, middle and high schools across the country must show their personal IDs and obtain a visitor pass to enter. Faculty members and stude...
Campaign heats up for Seoul education chief

Nov 1, 2012

Overshadowed by the presidential campaign, another heated race is under way for the top post of education in Seoul. The by-election for the superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education is to be held simultaneously with the Dec. 19 presidential election. Although political parties cannot directly be involved in the election of a superintendent, but candidates for both president a...
Jeju sets eyes on international education

Oct 30, 2012

International schools to turn the resort island into an English education hub
South Koreans have ‘moderate’ English-language skills

Oct 25, 2012

South Korea ranked 21st among 54 countries in the English proficiency index, indicating its people’s English-language skills are “moderate,” a global survey showed. EF Englishtown, an education company, released its second survey for the year 2012, which asked 1.7 m people over three years in 54 countries to take a free online test. The respondents were more urban and younger than the general p...