The Education Ministry began operation of a corruption report center to monitor private kindergartens for irregularities Friday, after thousands of private institutes were found with accounting fraud. On Thursday, Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae announced the ministry will open the results of past inspections conducted on private kindergartens across the nation from 2013 to 2017 and also reveal the names of institutes found to have committed accounting fraud. The results will become available on

“The history of technological development shows that the very forces that disrupt the economy also create new employment opportunities and whole new industries that we can’t predict.”

The government and the ruling Democratic Party will come up with measures to tackle widespread irregularities in private kindergartens next week, a party official said Tuesday. They plan to hold a closed-door meeting Sunday amid growing public uproar sparked by revelations of preschool owners' corruption by a lawmaker during a parliamentary audit of the education ministry last week.Rep. Park Yong-jin from the DP on Thursday unveiled a list of about 1,900 private kindergartens that were found to

From its diverse education methods and state-of-the-art facilities, Chadwick International in Korea offers experience-based learning opportunities.Located in Songdo International Business District in Incheon, Chadwick International is a school for pre-kindergarten to grade 12 students. It is a sister campus to Chadwick School, a kindergarten to grade 12 school in the greater South Bay area of Los Angeles that was founded by Margaret Lee Chadwick in 1935. The two campuses share the same mission t

North London Collegiate School Jeju said its 2018 graduates have achieved outstanding results in the International Baccalaureate Diploma, with students receiving scores higher than the global average. According to the British international school located on Jeju Island, 42 students obtained an average of 37 points in the IB, above the international average of 30 points. Four of its students received the perfect score of 45 points, the school said. North London Collegiate School Jeju’s class of 2

Korea International School aims to help students prepare for their future. With its North American-based school curricula, KIS pursues education that builds a strong academic foundation for students by challenging them to develop long-term, higher-order mastery of learning. The curricula for kindergarten and elementary school students at KIS center on transdisciplinary learning. The school offers a multinational learning atmosphere, and students are able to maximize learning opportunities by app

President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday went ahead with the appointment of Rep. Yoo Eun-hae of the ruling Democratic Party as the new education minister, in spite of objections from opposition lawmakers over her apparent ethical lapses -- including falsifying her home address so she could enroll her daughter in a prestigious elementary school in central Seoul.　　“We are aware that there is opposition to Yoo in the parliament, mainly among opposition lawmakers,” said Kim Eui-kyeom, a Cheong Wa Dae spokes

Kyung Hee University will hold Peace BAR Festival 2018 to celebrate the 37th anniversary of the International Day of Peace and gather academia, nongovernmental organizations and business partnerships to examine the Korean Peninsula and find values to contribute to the global peace movement.The two-day festival will be held from Tuesday to Thursday under the theme “The Korean Peninsula in an Age of Transformative Civilization: Values and Philosophy” at the Grand Peace Hall and Lobby of the Univer

Some 1,400 South Korean high school students were found to have plagiarized their college admission essays last year, data showed Wednesday. According to the data, provided by the Korean Council for University Education, 1,406 students were disqualified from admission over plagiarized personal statements.(Yonhap)Universities throughout Korea began using plagiarism detection software in 2011, disqualifying applicants whose essays show significant levels of similarity to works published online. Th

The Education Ministry on Monday published revised guidelines on school violence that give victims the right to participate in the retrial process. The revised guidelines, which come three years after the first set of guidelines was introduced in 2014, provide a detailed process for dealing with school violence, to allow victims to receive proper assistance from school violence centers across the country. (Yonhap)Victims of school violence were previously not notified when abusers filed for a re

Sex education teachers stress importance of identifying differences between romance and violence, and shedding gender stereotypes

Would-be public servants flock to Noryangjin to prepare for exams

SEJONG -- Labor conditions for about 80,000 part-time lecturers in South Korea are expected to improve as a result of a policy proposal agreed upon Monday by instructors, universities and the government. At a media conference at the Ministry of Education, a consultative panel tasked with improving the treatment of part-time lecturers announced a proposal that would mandate universities to hire part-time lecturers for at least a year and to allow reappointments for up to three years.Lee Yong-woo,

A nongovernmental group said Monday it will distribute books on the history of the so-called “comfort women” and related issues later this month to 18 high schools in the San Francisco area.The San Francisco-based Education for Social Justice Foundation published the not-for-sale, 106-page student edition of “’Comfort Women’ History and Issues for Students” last week, which will be the first educational material entirely about Japan’s military sex slaves during the World War II to be used in US

The Education Ministry announced Sunday that it will provide 4.6 billion won ($4.1 million) to public schools for the installment of safety devices to prevent young children from accidentally being left alone on school buses According to the ministry, it will provide 300,000 won each for the 15,000 school buses of public kindergartens, elementary and special schools across the nation to install safety devices in the vehicles. (Yonhap)Several young children here have died or suffered harm after b