Seoul National University seeks to invite three Nobel Prize-wining chemists from Israel to be full-time professors next year, school officials said Thursday. One candidate is Daniel Shechtman, professor of materials science at the Technion ― Israel Institute of Technology ― who received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2011 for his discovery of chemical structures called quasicrystals.The others are Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover from the same university, who were jointly awarded in 2004 for

South Korean parents with elementary school children read fewer books than their kids, a survey showed Tuesday.According to the survey conducted by education firm Hanuribook, 36.6 percent of the respondents answered that their children read six to 10 books a month.In contrast, 26.6 percent of those parents said they read one book or less a month.Parents who read more than six books a month accounted for 12.3 percent, marking a wide gap with their children in the amount of reading.“Reading is get

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Just before graduating from the University of Michigan, Calvin Schemanski began his start-up.With two classmates, he got free office space on campus and $7,500 in funding from the university’s student startup accelerator, TechArb. The project, a restaurant recommendation app called MyFab5 using a “favorites” formula, is now preparing a national launch.The project is among dozens at Michigan and thousands across the United States getting help from “incubators” at U.S. colleges

For two decades, U.S. universities have raced to build campuses abroad to burnish their reputation and attract foreign students. Now, controversies and stumbles at high-profile projects have led some to reconsider expansion. Among the setbacks: faculty dissent at New York University and Yale University, construction delays at Duke University’s campus in China and lackluster enrollment at Persian Gulf outposts. Politics in Russia are jeopardizing the success of Massachusetts Institute of Technolo

British universities are on a major recruitment drive in Korea. More than 60 universities and institutions in the United Kingdom are to exhibit at Korea’s biggest U.K. higher education recruitment fair scheduled for this weekend.Institutions such the University of Warwick, King’s College London and University of Manchester will market themselves to Korean students at the two-day event to be held at the headquarters of Korea Exchange Bank in Euljiro, central Seoul from Oct. 12-13.School represent

An international survey showed Korea had a relatively wide gap between younger and older people in terms of adult literacy and other skills. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Tuesday unveiled the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, or PIAAC. It is the first international survey that examined adult skill levels in three areas: literacy, numeracy and problem solving. The survey across 24 countries found that Koreans perform at average or sligh

A study released Monday by the Ministry of Education shows that nearly 1 in 10 primary and secondary students have emotional problems and are in need of counseling. According to the survey of more than 2.11 million students conducted between May and July, 7.2 percent, or 152,640 students, were classified as “needing attention,” while 2.2 percent, or 46,104 students, were diagnosed as “needing priority care.” The “needing attention” group refers to those who have some form of emotional disorder a