Five principals charged with accepting bribes February 6, 2010
Five elementary-school principals have been charged with taking bribes from a consignment company which ran after-school tutorial classes in their schools. The Seoul Southern Prosecutors¡¯ Office indicted the principals without physical detention
Preparing students for boarding school January 29, 2010
It is hard to deny that Korea¡¯s swift advance in the world has arisen in part from a long-held Korean value: education. Over the years, the number of Korean people with college diplomas has increased, and many of th...
Doubts about evaluations remain January 29, 2010
When the Education Ministry announced its new nationwide teacher evaluation policies earlier this month, they were heralded as a way to improve public schools, with the hope that they could also lower education costs. Having experienced trial evaluat
Korean student wins prestigious scholarship January 29, 2010
The Lee Myung-bak administration¡¯s ambitious carbon emissions reduction target and ¡°low carbon, green growth¡± policy may well be achieved on the back of Australia¡¯s leading research in green technology and Korean stu...
Oh, what a feeling! January 29, 2010
College students celebrate their graduation from Korea Maritime University in Busan, the first of the nation¡¯s universities to end the school year, on Wednesday. [NEWSIS]
Students compare notes with rising stars January 15, 2010
It is difficult being a celebrity. Fans follow you wherever you go and you have obligations that regular people don¡¯t have. But how does that compare to being a student? When you¡¯re in high school, your parents are t...
Foundation brightens futures in Boeun January 15, 2010
Last Friday, 10 senior middle school students from Boeun County, North Chungcheong, who are attending a private boarding school in Yongin, Gyeonggi, started their day at 6:30 a.m. They trundled out into the hallway for a few stretches to help wake th
Long road ahead January 15, 2010
Students exit Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul on Wednesday after having taken an exam that is part of the transfer student application process. The university has 497 openings for transfer students this year, and 12...
Intern teacher system failing on recruitment December 18, 2009
The intern teacher system, which the Education Ministry launched in September to tackle unemployment, is facing major challenges with recruitment that could eventually signal its demise. The problem is that qualified teachers are not applying for
Head-to-head December 18, 2009
Seven universities (Ajou, Konkuk, Dankook, Soongsil, Inha, Hanyang and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) provided students with advice about their admissions policies on Wednesday at a gymnasium at Suwon Univers...
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