Successes are made in improving the quality of education in different parts of the DPRK.

In order to improve educational conditions and environment, primary efforts are being directed to constructing new school buildings or renovating existing ones.

The Ministry of Education and relevant local authorities worked out bold plans for the projects and are pushing ahead with them while solving knotty problems.

Successes have also been made in the work to modernize and informatize education at a higher level.

The city of Rason finished the building of multi-functional classrooms at above the medium level for the first time in the country. In the city of Nampho, the supporters’ organizations secured educational facilities and school fixtures and sent them to schools, branch schools and kindergartens in the city, thereby making a tangible contribution to solidifying the material and technical foundations of education.

According to data available, more than 530 schools, branch schools and kindergartens have been built or renovated across the country as of July this year and multi-functional classrooms continue to grow in number.

Universities are also successful in developing and applying research-type teaching and study methods.

Kim Chaek University of Technology prepares students as talents of practical type through operation of research project teams.

Pyongyang University of Medical Sciences introduced a teaching method integrating lecture, scientific research and treatment to increase the effectiveness of teaching in special study subjects and improve students’ application abilities.

The cooperative teaching involving field workers is being well received.

The lectures given by educators and field technical workers with rich experience in production on the production site is an advantageous research-type teaching method to assign the task of conceiving ideas for solving problems arising in reality and to determine the direction of research for implementing them. So, it is a big help to students in developing their independent research and practical abilities.

What draw special attention are the achievements made by teachers training institutions.

This year alone, Kim Hyong Jik University of Education has created over ten research-type teaching and study methods and generalized them across the country.

Lecturers at Pyongyang Teachers Training College make positive efforts to develop new teaching methods based on modern educational technology. The education in robots for children and various other teaching methods and tools developed by them are of great practical significance as they help students improve their application and practical abilities.

Hamhung Choe Hui Suk Teachers Training College, Wonsan Ri Su Dok Teachers Training College and others in different parts of the country completed the writing of new textbooks by making teaching contents of subjects more practical, and are pushing ahead with the introduction of research-type teaching methods into special study subjects steadily and step by step and intensifying the combined operation and collaborative research between universities and between faculties and departments.