2028 national exam will ‘aim to ensure fairness’: Korea education ministry
The college entrance exam changes include integrating subjects and consolidating test topics, as well as adopting a five-tier absolute grading system.
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Tent schools set up to ensure students affected by earthquake stay on track
Several rescue teams, in collaboration with local schoolteachers, have set up "tent schools" for children in affected villages, so that schooling can continue in the wake of the…
Suneung without ‘killer questions’ still not easy, results show
Results and analysis of over 440,000 examinees released by the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation suggested that exams in all subjects were more challenging than last…
Female students shatter academic barriers
Although primary and secondary education for girls has improved, the UNESCO report notes that higher education remains less accessible, particularly for those from disadvantaged…
Singapore students rank top in maths, science and reading in OECD study
The study, which is done every three years by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, was delayed by a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Universities, reskilling courses key to tripling S’pore’s AI workforce to 15,000: Experts
Most of the new faces are likely to be trained locally to build tools using existing AI models, while existing tech employees from other fields, like metaverse technologies, can…
Higher earners in Tokyo to get tuition-free high school for children, with subsidy cap removed
The Tokyo government is also considering backing free school lunches for public elementary and junior high schools.
Korea’s schools brace for impact of record-low enrolment
Fewer than 400,000 children are expected to enter elementary school next year, the first since the national statistics agency started compiling data.
More Korean elementary, middle school students want to be doctors because it ‘pays well’
Money rose to the No. 1 reason for wanting to become a doctor in 2022, accounting for 29.3 per cent among middle school students.
Half a million take Suneung as nation holds its breath
A total of 504,588 examinees flocked to 1,279 test sites in 84 cities, counties and districts nationwide to sit the nine-hour five-session exam.