Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong called on striking junior doctors to return to hospitals before Tuesday if they wish to qualify for a board-certified qualification exam next year. The junior doctors’ walkout reached the three-month mark on Monday.
Police are investigating how it came to be that the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) contained almost the same English passage used in a private cram school’s mock test.
After the governmental crackdown, the private education industry argues that exaggerating the qualifications of instructors and textbook authors and inflating the number of students admitted to top colleges has been tolerated until now.
Korea faces record-low fertility rates and declining population, but parents are engaged in an enrollment war for preschool spots.
The Korean government will increase its tuition support for children between the age of three and five starting next year. The Education Ministry on Monday announced its five-year plan focusing on the development of children’s education.
The government must clearly present the direction of college restructuring and give time for universities to prepare.
The keywords in the higher education reform outline the Ministry of Education unveiled last week are deregulation and autonomy.
Posthumous graduation certificates may be given to undergraduate victims who lost their lives in the deadly crowd crush in Itaewon, central Seoul, on Oct. 29.
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