Clear Change in Educational Structure

Recently the work of improving the country’s educational structure so that advanced education can be given is being pushed ahead with vigorously.

The major universities lead the van of this work.

Kim Il Sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology and other major universities conducted active organization to apply the new education management system based on full-credit system to all their faculties since the new school year of this year.

The universities and their faculties that introduced new education management system came to have many new subjects and as required by this, new teaching programs have been made.

The universities of superior scientific guidance forces conduct with an innovative eye the work to strengthen postgraduate education.

The general education field also makes clear progresses.

This year more than 70 senior middle schools have been transformed into higher technical middle schools.

As a result, the number of higher technical middle schools runs over several hundred.

Educational Level of Rural Schools Improved

The educational level of all rural schools across the country has been improved on a higher level amid the brisk drive for raising the educational level of the countryside to that of the city from the beginning of the year.

This is the success of significance in putting the country’s educational level onto the world’s advanced level as soon as possible.

The Ministry of Education has clearly defined the goals to be attained by the rural schools and has sent officials of the relevant departments to the areas in charge of them.

They also encouraged them to work for improving the educational level in cooperation with field officials.

And they directed main efforts to generalizing the experience gained by the Central Teaching Training Centre which set a model in improving the educational level of rural schools, and to enhancing the role of the training centre at all levels.

The teachers’ reeducation training institutes in cities and counties set it as the main link for the educational development at the region to raise the qualifications of teachers of rural schools to that of urban schools.

With the positive guidance and assistance of the sponsors of training institutes at all levels, tens of thousands of teachers at rural schools have improved their qualifications and abilities this year.

The ministry has pushed ahead with the work to generalize over 1 500 kinds of teaching videos according to schools, subjects and grades made by superior teachers, thus making it possible to quickly convey the excellent teaching resources of the city to rural schools.

The work to provide educational conditions and environment of practical use to the rural schools is brisk under the deep concern and assistance of the whole society.

New Teaching Methods Created Multifariously

The development of new teaching methods that contribute to improving the quality of education is a noticeable achievement in the field of education.

The sector of higher education has created more than 50 excellent teaching methods and studying methods, including teaching methods combining research task and selective subject teaching, method of promoting the students’ research ability and development and creation ability by activating the operation of the research task group, and thus made great progress in improving the content of teaching.

In particular, it set the creation of educational methods for ensuring the effectiveness of foreign language education as an important item in the development of education and pressed ahead with it to create and generalize tens of new superior teaching methods. In this course, thousands of multilingual speakers were produced.

Schools in the field of general education have also accelerated the work to train students to think and practice by their own efforts by widely introducing the excellent teaching methods such as heuristic-, search- and discussion-style teaching methods.

The work for developing and introducing the intelligent teaching control system, an advanced educational management method which comprehensively evaluates the ability of the students of junior and senior middle schools and provides teaching resources to individual students, is going on briskly at the final stage.

High zeal of the officials and educators in the field of education, mindful that the advance of the country will be further accelerated only when the front of education gains momentum, serves as a powerful driving force for stepping up the educational revolution in the new century.

Rodong Sinmun