Education in South Korea

The Education Ministry has launched a project to send ninth graders who have failed their year to vocational training centers. 

AGERPRES special correspondent Florin Barbuta reports: No less than 77 Romanians have graduated from South Korean universities since 1993 under the Global Korea Scholarship program that is designed to provide higher education in this Asian country for international students, representatives of the National Institute for International Education (NIIED) - the arm of South Korea's Ministry

Left-leaning former human rights lawyer Moon Jae-In won South Korea's presidential election by a landslide, an exit poll predicted when polls closed Tuesday.

Moon, of the Democratic Party, had 41.4% support, according to the joint survey by three television stations. Conservative Hong Joon-Pyo was far behind on 23.3%, with centrist Ahn Cheol-Soo third on 21.8%.

Turkey's college graduates lag behind even Japanese high school dropouts, according to Turkish Education Association's (TED) think tank TEDMEM's "2016 Education Evaluation Report."  

The level of education of a university graduate in Turkey is lower than a high school dropout in Japan, the findings of the report showed. 

In the 2013-14 academic year, we had almost 3 million high school students and just over 2.5 million vocational and technical high school students. Every year, almost 800,000 students graduate from high schools and vocational/technical high schools. In the coming years, this figure will exceed 1 million.