Tag: classroom
N. Korea orders hands-on learning but schools lack basic lab equipment
North Korean schools are supposed to shift from book learning to a more hands-on, participatory model of education, but teachers say they lack the...
N. Korea’s technical schools struggle with outdated equipment and poor funding
North Korea's Ministry of Education recently conducted a nationwide review that exposed widespread problems at technical high schools, with most struggling to provide proper...
N. Korean teachers crack under pressure over student attendance
North Korean teachers are dealing with mounting stress as schools hold them responsible for poor student attendance rates.
According to a source in South Hamgyong...
China to send professors to North Korean university under new agreement
North Korea and China are actively pursuing the sending of Chinese professors to Pyongyang University of Science and Technology to expand educational cooperation.
A China-based...
Well-connected students use propaganda troupes to dodge N. Korean farm labor
With rice transplanting season underway at farms across North Korea, party committees at Pyongyang universities have been enrolling well-connected students in mobile artistic propaganda...
Pyongyang schools demand parents pay for new desk mandate
Surprise inspections of desk and chair conditions are underway at schools throughout Pyongyang. Meanwhile, parents are expressing frustration as the costs of replacing school...
Class divisions: N. Korean parents reject impoverished teachers for their children
As a new semester begins at North Korean schools, parents appear to be judging homeroom teachers not for their teaching skills but for their...
N. Korean parents struggle with hefty school decoration fees as new...
As North Korean schools prepare for the new academic year starting April 1, parents are frustrated by school decoration fees their children are expected...
Empty promises: N. Korean schools force students to bring their own...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has promoted educational activities as the "No. 1 affair of state" and emphasized state support, but the burden...
Empty virtual classrooms: N. Korea’s struggling distance education network
North Korea is pushing to build a distance education network as part of a drive to provide all workers with technical training, but universities...
