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‘Education should make children happier’

May 21, 2015

Kailash Satyarthi, cowinner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, urged South Korea to direct its education toward making children happier and cultivating openness to the world and devotion to the community. South Korea’s high-quality education has been credited for the country’s economic surge but has done little for its students’ happiness, the Indian activist against child labor said. “Education systems everywhere, including Korea, have to be more child-friendly. It should be easy and friendly for y
Education forum calls for equal opportunities

May 21, 2015

The World Education Forum 2015, held in South Korea’s western port city of Incheon, closed Thursday with a message of equal education opportunities for learners of all ages.Some 1,500 participants from 167 countries, including ministers and vice ministers of education of 111 nations, held plenary sessions and debates from Tuesday to Thursday and reached an agreement on the Incheon Declaration centered on “promoting comprehensive quality equal education for all and lifelong learning.”Korea’s Educ
Ex-P.M., governor to be indicted without detention

May 21, 2015

Former Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo and South Gyeongsang Province Gov. Hong Joon-pyo are to be indicted without detention on charges of violating the Political Fund Act, prosecutors said Thursday, a decision that the opposition bloc viewed as “too lenient.” The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office was set to indict Hong and Lee for illegally receiving political funds, making them the first two political bigwigs to be prosecuted in connection with the high-profile bribery scandal involving Pr
‘CSR the new norm for business’

May 21, 2015

In the increasingly globalizing market, companies will have to align their business with long-term public interests and sustainable initiatives to survive, the executive director of United Nations Global Compact said Monday. Georg Kell, the founder and CEO of the world’s largest corporate sustainability organization, stressed that businesses are increasingly forced to demonstrate corporate social responsibility by embracing UNGC principles: human rights, labor, environment and opposition to corr
[Herald Interview] S. Sudan to benchmark Korean education

May 21, 2015

Less than five years since its independence, the fledgling state of South Sudan is looking to use education as the driving force on route to becoming a developed country, the country’s top official in education said.“We want to transform our education into a modern system that meets all the requirements of society. Without education, there can’t be development,” said South Sudan’s Education Minister John Gai Nyuot Yoh. John Gai Nyuot Yoh. (Yoon Min-sik/The Korea Herald)In order to achieve this,
World leaders vow to raise education quality, opportunities

May 21, 2015

Global educational leaders pledged Thursday to raise the quality of education and encourage life-long learning the world over as the world's largest education forum closed. More than 1,500 educators, policymakers and heads of international organizations gathered here for the World Education Forum 2015. Over the past three days, they discussed how far the world had come toward meeting the Millennium Development Goal of ensuring primary education for all children, set in 2000. The forum culmin
Korea attributes success to education

May 20, 2015

South Korea on Wednesday advocated its education model and its contribution to the country’s economic success in the past decades at the World Education Forum in Songdo, Incheon. The WEF 2015, bringing together some 1,500 education officials from across the world, evaluated the U.N.-led “Education for All” movement while working to set new global education goals for the next 15 years. Participants of the event, including President Park Geun-hye who delivered a speech at the opening ceremony Tues
Korea underscores education’s role in national development

May 19, 2015

South Korea promoted its education prowess at the World Education Forum 2015 on Tuesday, gathering education-related experts and officials from over 100 countries, hosted at the westernmost city of Incheon.The forum, organized by the Korean Education Ministry and U.N. agencies, brought together over 1,500 education-related officials to discuss how to make quality education accessible for people of all ages.At the opening ceremony held in the afternoon, President Park Geun-hye urged the internati
Park vows efforts to narrow global education gap

May 19, 2015

President Park Geun-hye pledged Tuesday that South Korea will join global efforts to ensure that every child in the world receives education. "'The Miracle of the Han River,' which describes South Korea's growth out of poverty was the result of education," she said at the opening ceremony of the World Education Forum 2015, which kicked off in Incheon, west of Seoul. South Korea will strive to transfer the use of information and communication technology to developing countries, which could inc
Global forum eyes new educational goals

May 18, 2015

World Education Forum offers stage for discussing education issues while setting objectives for 2030
S. Korea should offer education expertise to poor nations: Julia Gillard

May 18, 2015

South Korea should share its educational know-how that has catapulted it from poverty to wealth in just decades, the head of an international group rooting for universal access to education said Monday. "It's impossible to imagine (South Korea) could have built this economy without a high-quality education system," Julia Gillard, former Australian prime minister who chairs the board of directors for the Global Partnership for Education, told Yonhap News Agency in an interview. South Korea was
Seoul school stripped of elite status

May 7, 2015

Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education confirmed Thursday its decision to strip an elite school of its status, after it did not meet the required standards of the public office’s evaluation and repeatedly failed to show up for hearings.The SMOE said it will proceed with the process of canceling the designation of Seoul Foreign Language High School as a foreign language high school, which specializes in foreign language education and is widely considered elite through its selective student admiss
Seoul to host global education forum

May 7, 2015

The Education Ministry on Thursday unveiled plans for the World Education Forum 2015, a gathering of education authorities, experts and high ranking personnel from education-related international organizations.At the event slated for May 19-22, some 1,500 participants from 154 member states of the United Nations such as education ministers and vice ministers are expected to attend, according to the organizers. The most prominent participants include U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; World Bank
New English book features Korea's real faces

May 7, 2015

A French professor who has been living in South Korea for more than 20 years has published an English-language book introducing Korean culture seen from the perspective of foreigners, not Koreans.Written by Benjamin Joinau, a professor of French Language & Literature at Seoul's Hongik University and a cultural anthropologist specialized in Korean Studies, "Sketches of Korea: an illustrated guide to Korean culture" provides a comprehensive guide to everyday life in Korea.Joinau introduces readers
[Herald Interview] ‘Diversity helps improve education’

May 4, 2015

At the student lounge of Nyenrode Business Universiteit in the Netherlands, students of different nationalities, appearance and accents are often seen together, pitching their opinions as they participate in an animated debate about the latest class they attended.This scene is familiar in many universities across the Netherlands, representing one of the Dutch’s biggest strengths in education, said Han Dommers, head of the education promotion department at EP-Nuffic, which works for international