More Korean Colleges to Use Admissions Officers
Seoul National University and dozens of other universities will expand the use of admission officers to recruit students. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced Wednesday that the schools will admit at least 3,000 students next year under a state-supported ”admission officer” system. The ministry last year began subsidizing 10 universities for recruiting admission officers with two billion won ($2 million) and has selected 30 more schools for the program this year. “Universities could introduce a more advanced recruitment system with admissions officers and overcome their old practice of evaluating students with a uniform yardstick,” ministry official Hwang Hong-kyu told reporters at the Central Government Complex in Seoul. See the complete report in The Korea Times.