North Korea is reportedly planning to restructure its education system via the upcoming Supreme People\u2019s Assembly session, bringing in an eleven-year system of mandatory education involving five years of elementary school, three years of middle school and then three years of high school. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe compulsory education system is going to be partially revised by the Supreme People\u2019s Assembly session scheduled for the 25th,\u201d a source from Yangkang Province revealed to Daily NK on the 16th. \u201cThe period spent in elementary school is to be extended by one year, and then today\u2019s middle school process is to be divided up into three years each of middle and high school.\u201d <\/p>\n
Hitherto, North Korean education has involved a two year period of kindergarten divided into lower and upper class, but only upper class has been compulsory. It is this \u2018upper class\u2019 that is to be added to the existing elementary school to create a five-year elementary school structure, the source claimed.<\/p>\n
In addition, the existing six-year middle school is to be divided into two periods of three years each. The names under consideration for the new types of school are \u2018lower middle school\u2019 and \u2018upper middle school\u2019 or \u2018middle school\u2019 and \u2018high school\u2019; however, the former is more likely because it would mirror the Chinese system rather than that of South Korea.<\/p>\n
It is unclear whether and to what extent this will affect what goes on in the classroom itself, but it is unlikely to portend the wholesale elimination of Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il revolutionary history class, which currently swallows up a disproportionate amount of weekly schooling for many students.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we were really serious about changing the education system in our country, the first thing we would have to do is cut down radically on \u2018revolutionary history\u2019 class,\u201d the source mused. \u201cWe\u2019d also have to add computer science and foreign languages or basic economics; things that help people to survive.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North Korea is reportedly planning to restructure its education system via the upcoming Supreme People\u2019s Assembly session, bringing in an eleven-year system of mandatory education involving five years of elementary school, three years of middle school and then three years of high school. \u201cThe compulsory education system is going to be partially revised by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":21231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"\n