Ministry of Education adjusts number of non-major students

Ministry of Education is to give incentives to universities even if they do not increase the number of non-major students to 25%. Those who increase the number of admissions for non-majors and wide area selection will also be given more incentives from government’s general financial support. Before this plan, affected universities might have lost 78.52 trillion won subsidies. But the ministry turned its policy from condition to additional points to avoid that. The ministry also allowed financial support for universities fall short of standards.

Ministry of Education starts reducing private education dependence

In a way to reduce private education cost, the Ministry of Education opens its free child care program run from 7am to 8pm. In other words, elementary students after their school can come and stay until 8pm and be picked up by their parents who might have been busy working during the day. Formerly, the number was limited and parents complained about the waiting to get a seat for their child and children should have traveled from one private institute to another such as piano, taekwondo, etc until their parents pick them up. This have costed parents a lot money. The minister promised to increase the number of facilities at more than 2,000 schools for frist grade students within the first half of this year and expand it to second grade next year and all grades from 2026. The ministry is expecting that this would also contribute to increasing birth rate. Starting with this, the ministry is also to run digital teacher training and university reform in a way to reduce private education cost.