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2017.06.28
| Won | Pyongyang | Sinuiju | Hyesan |
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| Rice Price | 5,800 | 6,000 | 5,900 |
The North Korean authorities are trying to expand the country’s pool of teachers as part of plans to establish a 12-year system of compulsory education, it has been revealed. As part of the effort, the level of qualification required to become a teacher has been reduced, while those who are selected are being told they will receive guaranteed state food distribution.
A source from the northerly city of Hoiryeong in North Hamkyung Province told Daily NK on the 8th, “In early August a notice went up advertizing a round of qualification checks for would-be teachers; and the education department did the tests through mid-September.”
“The competition was fierce; it rose to 8:1 in Hoiryeong following the news about a policy of preferential treatment including food distribution,” the source said. “Every teacher, even those who had been newly selected at Chuseok, was given 5kg of grain. That’s a 15-day supply.”
North Korea used to only allow Teacher’s College and College of Education graduates to become teachers; however, many such qualified candidates left the field in the 1990s and numbers have not risen substantially since then. To satisfy the demand for new teachers, it appears that the requirments were reduced; one of those who passed the recent checks was reportedly a middle school graduate working for the local tobacco factory.
The North Korean authorities are also said to be planning further rounds of hiring to meet demand, the source said, explaining, “They are lacking teachers for elementary school, which has been expanded from four to five years. The six years of middle school has been divided into two with vocational classes added, so demand is expected to increase more there too.”
The policy of recruitment fits the plan outlined in Rodong Shinmun, the publication of the Chosun Workers’ Party, on the 26th of last month. According to the piece, “We plan to increase the intake into teacher training universities and develop teaching labor organizations to meet the demand of the elementary school transition from four years to five.”
Under the policy adopted by the Supreme People’s Assembly on September 25th, elementary school changes are supposed to go into effect in 2013, with the division of middle school into two sections set to occur in 2014.
A source from the northerly city of Hoiryeong in North Hamkyung Province told Daily NK on the 8th, “In early August a notice went up advertizing a round of qualification checks for would-be teachers; and the education department did the tests through mid-September.”
“The competition was fierce; it rose to 8:1 in Hoiryeong following the news about a policy of preferential treatment including food distribution,” the source said. “Every teacher, even those who had been newly selected at Chuseok, was given 5kg of grain. That’s a 15-day supply.”
North Korea used to only allow Teacher’s College and College of Education graduates to become teachers; however, many such qualified candidates left the field in the 1990s and numbers have not risen substantially since then. To satisfy the demand for new teachers, it appears that the requirments were reduced; one of those who passed the recent checks was reportedly a middle school graduate working for the local tobacco factory.
The North Korean authorities are also said to be planning further rounds of hiring to meet demand, the source said, explaining, “They are lacking teachers for elementary school, which has been expanded from four to five years. The six years of middle school has been divided into two with vocational classes added, so demand is expected to increase more there too.”
The policy of recruitment fits the plan outlined in Rodong Shinmun, the publication of the Chosun Workers’ Party, on the 26th of last month. According to the piece, “We plan to increase the intake into teacher training universities and develop teaching labor organizations to meet the demand of the elementary school transition from four years to five.”
Under the policy adopted by the Supreme People’s Assembly on September 25th, elementary school changes are supposed to go into effect in 2013, with the division of middle school into two sections set to occur in 2014.
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