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Education in North korea

Education in the North korea
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Mangyondae Schoolchildrens Palace in Pyongyang

Education in N Korea is universal and country-funded schooling by the government. The cocky-reported national literacy rate for citizens at age of 15 and older is 100 percent (approx.).^[1] ^[2] Children go through 1 year of kindergarten, four years of primary educational activity, six years of secondary education, and then on to university.

In 1988, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported that Northward Korea had 35,000 preprimary, 60,000 master, 111,000 secondary, 23,000 higher and academy, and 4,000 other postsecondary teachers.^[1]

History [edit]

Formal education has played a central role in the social and cultural development of both traditional Korea and contemporary N Korea. During the Joseon Dynasty, the regal court established a system of schools that taught Confucian subjects in the provinces as well equally in four cardinal secondary schools in the capital. There was no state-supported organization of chief education.^[3]

During the 15th century, land-supported schools declined in quality and were supplanted in importance past private academies, the seowon, centers of a Neo-Confucian revival in the 16th century. College education was provided by the Seonggyungwan, the Confucian national university, in Seoul. Its enrollment was express to 200 students who had passed the lower ceremonious-service examinations and were preparing for the highest examinations.^[3]

The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw major educational changes. The seewan were abolished by the central government. Christian missionaries established modern schools that taught Western curricula. Amidst them was the first schoolhouse for women, Ehwa Woman's Academy, established by American Methodist missionaries as a primary schoolhouse in Seoul in 1886. During the terminal years of the dynasty, as many equally 3,000 private schools that taught modern subjects to both sexes were founded past missionaries and others. Most of these schools were full-bodied in the northern part of Korea.^{[ citation needed ]}

Subsequently Japan annexed Korea in 1910, the colonial government established an educational organization with two goals: to requite Koreans a minimal pedagogy designed to railroad train them for subordinate roles in a mod economy and make them loyal subjects of the Japanese emperor; and to provide a higher quality education for Japanese expatriates who had settled in large numbers on the Korean Peninsula.^[three]

The Japanese invested more resource in the latter, and opportunities for Koreans were severely limited. A land university modeled on Tokyo Imperial University was established in Seoul in 1923, but the number of Koreans allowed to study at that place never exceeded 40 percent of its enrollment; the rest of its students were Japanese. Private universities, including those established by missionaries such as Sungsil Higher in Pyongyang and Chosun Christian College in Seoul, provided other opportunities for Koreans desiring higher didactics.^[iii]

After the establishment of Democratic people's republic of korea, an educational activity system modeled largely on that of the Soviet Union was established. According to North Korean sources, at the time of North Korea'southward establishment, two-thirds of school-historic period children did non attend chief school, and virtually adults, numbering 2.3 million, were illiterate. In 1950, primary teaching became compulsory for children. The outbreak of the Korean State of war, however, delayed attainment of this goal; universal master education was not achieved until 1956. Past 1958 North Korean sources claimed that seven-twelvemonth compulsory primary and secondary education had been implemented.^[four] ^[3]

In 1959 "country-financed universal educational activity" was introduced in all schools; not only didactics and educational facilities, but also textbooks, uniforms, and room and board are provided to students without charge. By 1967 nine years of education became compulsory. In 1975 the compulsory 11-yr education system, which includes one yr of preschool education and 10 years of primary and secondary education, was implemented; that system remains in effect every bit of 1993^[update]. Co-ordinate to a 1983 speech given by Kim Il-sung to didactics ministers of nonaligned countries in Pyongyang, universal, compulsory higher education was to exist introduced "in the well-nigh futurity." At that time, students had no school expenses; the state paid for the didactics of well-nigh half of at the time North korea's population of 18.nine million.^[4] ^[3]

In 2012, leader Kim Jong-un advocated that Democratic people's republic of korea should expand its compulsory education from 11 years to 12 years. Co-ordinate to the state Korean Central News Agency, a pecker to expand its compulsory education was passed in September 2012. Prior to this reformation, Democratic people's republic of korea had 11 years of gratuitous education system which consisted of one year of kindergarten, iv years of elementary schoolhouse and 6 years of secondary school prior to college. Afterward reformation, now, information technology resembles education system in Republic of korea which consists of six years of simple school, iii years of middle school and three years of high school.^[5]

Primary and secondary education [edit]

In the early 1990s, the compulsory master and secondary educational activity organisation was divided into one year of kindergarten, 4 years of primary school (people's school) for ages six to nine, and six years of senior middle school (secondary school) for ages ten to 15. There are two years of kindergarten, for children anile four to six, only the second yr (upper level kindergarten) is compulsory.^[3]

In the mid 1980s, there were 9,530 primary and secondary schools. After graduating from people's school, students enter either a regular secondary school or a special secondary schoolhouse that concentrates on music, art, or foreign languages. These schools teach both their specialties and general subjects. The Mangyongdae Revolutionary Constitute where the children of the North Korean elite are prepared for service as officers in the Korean People's Regular army is an important special school where modern training in economics and computers is stressed as is the Kang Pan-sok Revolutionary School.^[6] ^[7] ^[iii]

In senior middle schools, politically oriented subjects, including the "Bang-up Kim Il-sung" and "Communist Morality" also as "Communist Party Policy," comprise 5.eight percentage of instruction.^[8] ^[3]

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A computer class at a schoolhouse. The computer shown here is running Red Star Bone ane.0.

Exterior the formal construction of schools and classrooms is "social education." This education includes extracurricular activities, family life, and the range of human relationships in North Korean society. Attention is paid to the influence of the social environs on the growing kid and its office in the development of his or her graphic symbol.^[three]

The thought of social teaching is to provide a carefully controlled environment in which children are insulated from unplanned influences. According to a North Korean official interviewed in 1990, "School education is not enough to plow the ascension generation into men of knowledge, virtue, and physical fettle. After school, our children accept many spare hours. Then it's important to efficiently organize their afterschool education."^[3]

In his 1977 Theses on Socialist Education, Kim Il Sung described the components of social education. In the Korean Children'southward Matrimony and the Socialist Patriotic Youth League, immature people learn the nature of commonage and organizational life in Democratic people's republic of korea. Some prepare for membership in the Korean Workers' Party. In students' and schoolchildren's halls and palaces, managed by the youth league central committee, young people participate in many extracurricular activities after schoolhouse.^[ix] ^[3]

In that location are cultural facilities such as libraries and museums, monuments and historical sites of the Korean revolution, and mass media dedicated to serving the goals of social education. Huge, lavishly appointed "schoolchildren'south palaces" with gymnasiums and theaters have been congenital in Pyongyang, Mangyongdae, and other sites. The palaces provide political lectures and seminars, debating contests, poetry recitals, and scientific forums. The Students' and Children'due south Palace in Pyongyang attracted some ten,000 children daily in the early on 1990s.^[9] ^[three]

Northward Korea compares its system of didactics to the ideal standards espoused by international guidelines such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

Higher didactics [edit]

Institutions of higher education include colleges and universities; teachers' grooming colleges, with a four-year course for preparing kindergarten, main, and secondary instructors; colleges of advanced engineering science with two or three-year courses; medical schools with six-year courses; special colleges for scientific discipline and engineering, fine art, music, and foreign languages; and armed forces colleges and academies. Kim Il-sung'south report to the Sixth Political party Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea in October 1980 revealed that there were 170 "higher learning institutions" and 480 "higher specialized schools" that year.^[3]

In 1987 there were 220,000 students attending two- or 3-year higher specialized schools and 301,000 students attending four- to six-year colleges and university courses. Co-ordinate to Eberstadt and Banister, 13.7 percentage of the population xvi years of age or older was attending, or had graduated from, institutions of higher educational activity in 1987-88. In 1988 the regime surpassed its target of producing "an army of 1.iii million intellectuals," graduates of higher teaching, a major footstep in the direction of achieving the often-stated goal of "intellectualization of the whole society."^[3]

Universities [edit]

Every academy in Democratic people's republic of korea has to receive a certain percentage (twenty to thirty) of discharged soldiers (served longer than iii years) or workers (employed longer than five years).^[x] ^{[ non specific enough to verify ]}

Kim Il-sung University, founded in October 1946, is the country'south simply comprehensive institution of college education offering available's, principal's, and doctoral degrees. Its enrollment of 16,000 full- and part-fourth dimension students in the early 1990s occupies, in the words of one observer, the "pinnacle of the North Korean educational and social organisation." Contest for admission is intense.^[iii]

According to a Korean-American scholar who visited the university in the early 1980s, only 1 student is admitted out of every five or vi applicants. An of import criterion for admission is senior middle school grades, although political criteria are besides major factors in selection. A person wishing to gain acceptance to any establishment of higher pedagogy has to be nominated by the local "college recommendation commission" earlier approval by canton- and provincial-level committees.^[3]

Kim Il-sung Academy's colleges and faculties include economics, history, philosophy, law, foreign languages and literature, geography, physics, mathematics, chemical science, nuclear power, biological science, and reckoner science. There are about iii,000 faculty members, including teaching and inquiry staff. All facilities are located on a modern, high-ascension campus in the northern office of Pyongyang.^[three]

Other notable universities include Kim Chaek University of Technology and the University of Natural Science, which focuses on computer science and natural science related to mass nuclear research.^[xi] Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies, trains working level diplomats and trade officials, and Kim Hyong Jik University of Didactics trains teachers.

Choson Commutation, a non-profit organisation founded by Harvard, Yale, Wharton School and Singaporean graduate students, also runs consulting and grooming programs in finance, business and economics with Kim Il Sung-university and the State Development Bank in Democratic people's republic of korea.^[12] Their programs target North Koreans nether the age of 40 and combine OpenCourseWare materials and on-site lectures to deliver year-round training.

Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), which opened in 2010, is the country's but privately funded university. Information technology is a joint venture constitute of higher learning, founded, funded and operated by mostly Evangelical Christians from Republic of korea, People's republic of china and America. In recent years at that place have been more Europeans due to a US travel ban.^[xiii] The purpose of the academy is to provide quality education with an international perspective. All instruction staff are foreign professors who teach in English language, other than specific German and Chinese language classes. In 2019 it had 638 enrolled undergraduate and postgraduate students.

In addition, the Pyongyang Business concern Schoolhouse offers brusk courses given by foreign lecturers.^[xiv] It was founded by the Swiss government and helps teach students concern management.^[xv] Another economic educational establishment is the Eye for the Study of the Capitalist System, established in 2000.^[xvi]

The remote universities obtained media attention while encrypting lesson plans and communicating them by a method of a radio broadcasting in 2016.^[17]

Developed education [edit]

Because of the emphasis on the connected education of all members of society, adult or work-report didactics is actively supported. Practically everyone in the country participates in some educational action, usually in the grade of "small study groups."^[3]

In the early 1990s, people in rural areas were organized into "5-family unit teams." These teams have educational and surveillance functions; the teams are the responsibility of a schoolteacher or other intellectual, each ane beingness in accuse of several such teams. Office and manufacturing plant workers accept two-hour "report sessions" after piece of work each 24-hour interval on both political and technical subjects.^[3]

Adult education institutions in the early 1990s included "manufacturing plant colleges", which teach workers new skills and techniques without forcing them to quit their jobs. Students work role-time, study in the evening, or take brusque intensive courses, leaving their workplaces for only a month or so. There are likewise "subcontract colleges", where rural workers tin can study to go engineers and assistant engineers, and a organisation of correspondence courses. For workers and peasants who are unable to receive regular school education, there are "laborers' schools" and "laborers' senior middle schools," although in the early 1990s these had go less important with the introduction of compulsory eleven-year didactics.^[three]

Meet likewise [edit]

Pyongyang Foreigners School
Membership Preparation in Korea

References [edit]

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