Tag: education
N. Korea spreads propaganda about high school students’ act of loyalty
North Korean authorities have been encouraging students to model their behavior on a widely reported act of loyalty by high school students in North...
N. Korea’s Prodigy Education Law leads to reorganization of educational curriculum
North Korea has reorganized its educational curriculum after enacting the so-called “Prodigy Education Law,” which is part of a strategy to accelerate national development...
N. Hamgyong Province moves to improve education accessibility for disabled children
North Hamgyong Province's education department recently drew up plans to improve access to education for children who are unable to attend school due to...
N. Korea issues order to embassies in Russia and Eastern Europe...
North Korea recently issued an order to some of its overseas embassies instructing them to repatriate students who have finished their studies, Daily NK...
Kim Il Sung University professor at the center of an admissions...
After bribing a Kim Il Sung University professor with a grand piano to get their child into the school, the child's parents had a...
N. Korea reforms education systems at two schools for “revolutionary children”
North Korea is reforming the educational systems at Red Flag Mangyongdae Revolutionary School and Kang Pan Sok Revolutionary School, as well as introducing teacher...
Chongjin kindergarten teachers cobble together lunches from students’ lunchboxes
Kindergarten teachers who are struggling to make a living in Chongjin have been cobbling together lunches with food taken from their students’ lunch boxes, Daily...
Satellite campus of Kim Chaek University of Technology suffers blackouts
Students who recently sat for a Kangwon Distance Learning University entry exam had to retake the test after power outages shut down the remotely...
Hamhung kindergartens ask parents to cover cost of computers
Hamhung kindergartens have recently been asking parents to cover the cost of computers as part of a computer literacy program, Daily NK has learned.
“Lately,...
N. Korea demands elementary schools modernize IT-related education
North Korean educational authorities have begun demanding that elementary schools modernize by acquiring computers and other relevant equipment, emphasizing the importance of IT-related subjects,...
