Tag: education
Several N. Korean children injured due to poorly maintained playground equipment
Several children have been injured after falling from an old swing carousel at a kindergarten playground in Yonsa County, North Hamgyong Province, Daily NK...
N. Korean teachers increasingly turn to students’ parents for help
North Korean teachers facing severe financial hardship are turning to parents for help. While schools harshly criticize teachers for such behavior, some teachers are...
N. Korea’s educational divide worsens with increase in private tutoring
More and more parents are turning to private tutoring for their children as the quality of education in North Korean schools declines, Daily NK...
Education ministry cracks down on universities’ careless dispensing of funds, travel...
Anxiety is in the air after North Korea's education ministry disciplined the scientific research departments of three prominent universities for carelessly providing research funds...
N. Korea launches inspection on universities’ new academic year preparations
North Korea's Ministry of Education has dispatched inspectors to leading universities in Pyongyang and the provinces to check on lecture preparations in major departments...
N. Korea launches probe into students obtaining diplomas without attending class
North Korea's education authorities have launched a probe into so-called "8.3 students." These students use their networks and money to bribe schools for diplomas...
N. Korean youth league orders students to improve morale at uniform...
The central headquarters of the North Korean Socialist Patriotic Youth League recently ordered students to help improve the morale of the factory workers who...
N. Korea intensifies ideological indoctrination for teachers
North Korean authorities have recently stepped up their ideological indoctrination of teachers after an inspection last year found serious levels of "anti-socialist" and "non-socialist"...
N. Korean university students complain about the state taking away their...
North Korean university students are complaining that instead of resting they have to spend the holidays in social-political activities in factories, enterprises, and farms,...
Pyongyang university holds struggle session after students caught bribing professors
A university in Pyongyang has held a struggle session after students were caught secretly giving their professors envelopes filled with cash for the New...