Claremont McKenna College president highlights importance of interdisciplinary programs to boost motivation

Seoul National University, one of Korea‘s leading universities, needs to spur efforts to further internationalize if it wants to rise in global rankings, the SNU board of trustees said Monday. On Monday, a team of 12 SNU researchers headed by professor Ye Sung-joon of the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, submitted a project report that analyzed the number of joint international research initiatives conducted by SNU and its implications in global university rankings.The fron

Herald Corp.’s education subsidiary Herald Edu has launched an English study service that aims to provide an enhanced platform for teenagers to study English, company officials said Wednesday.Launched on Monday, the “English Qbig” website offers a comprehensive English learning program that will help students with their reading and writing skills. The programs will be applicable to students from third grade in elementary schools to middle schoolers.The courses are offered in five different level

Schools should refrain from the excessive survey of students who are suspected of smoking to protect the human rights of teenagers, a local watchdog said Thursday.The National Human Rights Commission of Korea’s warning came after a high-school teacher in Incheon reportedly forced his male student to fill a paper cup with the teenager’s urine in front of the teacher in October last year to detect whether the student had smoked. The student later filed a complaint with the NHRCK. He claimed that i

The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education said Wednesday it recently conducted a study on possibly abolishing the high school pecking order, which Seoul’s education chief Cho Hi-yeon has pointed to as one of the main problems of the education system here. Seoul’s education chief Cho Hi-yeon (Yonhap)A SMOE-commissioned research team has filed a report on “reforming the high school system to normalize primary and secondary education,” according to officials. Led by Kim Kyung-keun, a professor of

Incheon National University on Tuesday launched the College of Law, Commerce and Public Affairs, which encompasses various disciplines in its humanities program.According to officials, the integrated college would provide education covering economics, trade, law, political science and international studies, along with administration. The INU said it aims to offer students what it called “integrated globalization” education. Participants of the inaugural ceremony of the College of Law, Commerce a

The Education Ministry on Monday rolled out a series of measures to protect children deprived of their right to education but the plan is not legally binding, raising questions about their effectiveness.According to the ministry’s new manual, schools are now required to actively reach out to any student who is absent without previous notification.  (Yonhap)Within a day or two, schools are required to call the homes of missing students and have to make a personal visit within five days. An interv

Of all elementary, middle and high school students in South Korea, 1.8 percent of have been deemed gifted children and are receiving specialized education, the Education Ministry said Wednesday. Of 110,053 gifted children nationwide, 81.2 percent of them are receiving specialized education in the fields of mathematics and science, the ministry said. Others included invention (4.0 percent), humanities and social sciences (3.5 percent), information-related studies (2.9 percent) and various foreign