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	<title>Fulbright U.S. Education Center &#187; private institutes</title>
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		<title>Students Trust Hagwon Teachers More than Those in Public Schools</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/02/students-trust-hagwon-teachers-more-than-those-in-public-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Joongang Daily has an interesting article summarizing the results of a recent study by the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI).  KEDI surveyed 6,600 students at 116 high schools across the country who also attend a hagwon (private institute) and asked them to rate hagwon and public school teachers in fourteen different dimensions.  Students were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crackdown on Illegal Tutoring Ineffective</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/02/crackdown-on-illegal-tutoring-ineffective/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/02/crackdown-on-illegal-tutoring-ineffective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Testing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Korea Times is carrying a series of articles on private tutoring in South Korea.  Today&#8217;s article focuses on the difficulty of enforcing laws against such tutoring.   According to an official at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, &#8220;It is hard to control tutoring due to privacy matters, especially when it comes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Latest Twist in Korea&#8217;s SAT Scandal</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/02/the-latest-twist-in-koreas-sat-scandal/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/02/the-latest-twist-in-koreas-sat-scandal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Stakes Academic Tests]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent scandal affecting SAT testing in Korea has taken a new twist with reports that at least one much sought after SAT instructor was kidnapped and beaten after he tried leaving his private academy for another one.  According to a report in the Joongang Daily, police say that he reported being taken against his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Korea&#8217;s Education Policy:  Keeping Hagwon&#8217;s at Bay</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/01/south-koreas-education-policy-keeping-hagwons-at-bay/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/01/south-koreas-education-policy-keeping-hagwons-at-bay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admissions Policies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Testing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Korea Times today published an interview with Vice Minister of Education Lee Ju Ho, that provides a good overview of the current administration&#8217;s education policy.  It&#8217;s goal, as the headline proclaimed, was to keep Hagwons (private institutes) at bay.  The Vice Minister was quoted as saying &#8220;Simply put, our goals are to enable students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAT Probe by Police Widens</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/01/sat-probe-by-police-widens/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2010/01/sat-probe-by-police-widens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[High Stakes Academic Tests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private institutes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some days ago the press reported a scandal in which a Korean language institute instructor was arrested by police after providing copies of an SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) test taken in Bangkok, Thailand,  via e-mail to Korean students who were to take the same test hours later in the United States.  Now The Korea Times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>English Testing for secondary school students</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2009/10/english-testing-for-secondary-school-students/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2009/10/english-testing-for-secondary-school-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private institutes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An article appeared in the Korea Times yesterday that illustrates the high profile and potentially controversial nature of English testing in South Korea.  The article deals with an ETS Korea scholarship program that selected eight high school students as &#8220;ETS Ambassadors.&#8221; The article notes that the ETS promotion comes at a time when foreign language [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poor English Seen as Obstacle to Higher Salaries</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2009/10/poor-english-seen-as-obstacle-to-higher-salaries/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2009/10/poor-english-seen-as-obstacle-to-higher-salaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an article in the Chosun Ilbo today, eight out of ten salaried workers think they are underpaid because of their poor English skills.  In the survey of almost 1,500 employed workers conducted by a jobs site, 89.9 percent of respondents said that if they had a better command of English they would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindergarten at $14,400 Per Year</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2009/07/kindergarten-at-14400-per-year/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2009/07/kindergarten-at-14400-per-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported in the Korea Times, it&#8217;s easy to spot the neatly dressed kindergarteners hopping out of BMWs and Maseratis in front of the southern Seoul campus of British International Pre School (BIPS), a prestigious English-speaking kindergarten rumored to be most sought-after by the rich moms in town. The school&#8217;s annual tuition hovers above 18 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combatting Cram Schools:  Subsidies for Curricula Upgrade Announced</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2009/07/combatting-cram-schools-subsidies-for-curricula-upgrade-announced/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2009/07/combatting-cram-schools-subsidies-for-curricula-upgrade-announced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported in The Korea Times, a total of 457 elementary and secondary schools across the nation have been selected as schools that will attempt to free their students from private tutoring. To do this through upgrading curricula and other programs, the schools will receive subsidies from the government.  According to the Ministry of Education, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hagwon informants to receive cash rewards under new crackdown</title>
		<link>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2009/07/hagwon-informants-to-receive-cash-rewards-under-new-crackdown/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.educationusa.or.kr/2009/07/hagwon-informants-to-receive-cash-rewards-under-new-crackdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamesflarson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As covered by the Joongang Ilbo and other local media today,  private education institutes, or hagwon, will be banned from providing classes after 10 p.m. from today, and whistleblowers will be rewarded with cash payments.   This was announced yesterday by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.  An individual who reports on illegal hagwon [...]]]></description>
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