Tag: students
N. Korea children’s camp excludes poor students due to high costs
Songdowon International Children's Camp supposedly provides mental and physical training to children and teenagers while promoting their welfare, but critics say it's becoming a...
N. Korea investigates academic fraud at Kim Il Sung University
North Korean authorities are investigating academic fraud at Kim Il Sung University after discovering doctoral graduates falsely listed professors as thesis advisors who provided...
N. Korean teacher reprimanded over poor student test scores
A math teacher at a high school in the North Korean city of Hyesan was recently reprimanded by his principal after students performed poorly...
N. Korean teachers skip mandatory indoctrination sessions, face public criticism
North Korean authorities have emphasized the importance of ideological indoctrination for youth, the future generation, but on the educational front lines, ideological education for...
N. Korean students mobilized for military airfield work
Students at a senior middle school in Taechon county, North Pyongan province, are being mobilized en masse to clear weeds at a nearby Air...
Pyongyang police crackdown on teen mobile payments
Police in Pyongyang have started an emergency crackdown after discovering that high school students in the capital's central districts made over 150 mobile payments...
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...
N. Korean students celebrate special meal after unpaid farmwork
Students mobilized to farms in North Pyongan province's Yomju county have returned home after completing rice planting season. Unlike previous years, work team and...
N. Korea investigates officer after student self-harm at event
The North Korean military is investigating a case of self-harm by a student at a revolutionary school who attended a major event in Pyongyang,...
N. Korea’s elite party school emphasizes practical training on 78th anniversary
North Korea's Workers' Party Central Cadres Training School, which trains core party officials, marked its 78th anniversary June 1 by calling for strengthened faculty...
