The Group for Financial Cooperation and Improvement (OECD) expressed issues by means of a report analyzing Korea’s academic standing for the primary time in 9 years, stating that “whereas general educational achievement exceeds the OECD common, dependence on non-public training stays very excessive, and college students are experiencing emotional and psychological burden attributable to fierce aggressive tradition.” The report additionally identified that Korean college students are comparatively weak in future core competencies required within the synthetic intelligence (AI) period, similar to vital considering and self-direction.
The OECD launched the “Training Coverage Outlook (EPO) in Korea” and introduced detailed findings on the Korea-OECD Worldwide Discussion board collectively hosted by the Ministry of Training and the Korean Instructional Improvement Institute (KEDI) on De. 5. This marks the primary publication on Korea’s training coverage since 2016.
The report identified relating to Korea that “on the faculty degree, it has a coverage framework that may improve academic fairness, however different practices similar to extremely aggressive choice strategies could hinder this.” It evaluated that “as a result of aggressive environment, family expenditures associated to personal training are steadily rising regardless of the declining school-age inhabitants, which can be a core development in Korean training.”
The report notably analyzed that the non-public training market is increasing as a result of high-stakes assessments, the place check outcomes have an effect on not solely admission to prestigious universities but in addition future earnings and employment stability, are carried out way more continuously than in different OECD nations.
The report recognized the School Scholastic Capacity Check (CSAT) as a consultant high-stakes examination and defined that “Korea has made efforts to simplify, diversify, or regulate the load of school admission procedures to scale back extreme focus on CSAT scores, however opposite to expectations, this has not really led to a discount in non-public training.” It suggested that “extra supplementary measures are wanted to make sure that the newly reformed CSAT ranging from the 2028 educational 12 months doesn’t improve demand for personal training.”
In the meantime, the report additionally contained evaluation that whereas Korea has well-established technological infrastructure for digital and AI training, college students’ associated competencies fall under the OECD common. Diana Toledo Figueroa, head of the OECD Training Coverage Outlook mission who served as a speaker that day, mentioned based mostly on the 2018-2022 Programme for Worldwide Scholar Evaluation (PISA) outcomes, “Korean college students’ fundamental educational degree could be very excessive, however the proportion of 15-year-old college students with ‘the power to precisely distinguish between details and opinions’ was 25% of the overall, decrease than the OECD common (47%), and the self-directed studying means index additionally fell under the OECD common.” She added, “If media and digital literacy training is strengthened and studying strategies are improved, college students will have the ability to extra absolutely get pleasure from the advantages of digital transformation and actively make the most of them.”
In the meantime, Training Minister Choi Kyo-jin acknowledged, “The appearance of the unreal intelligence period calls for modern transformation in our training,” including, “Via this discussion board, we are going to cooperate with the OECD to develop Korea’s AI-based training insurance policies and construct a future training system that helps the expansion of all college students.”
