KTU Update

Korean Education takes another small step toward reform.

The ministry said soon all bonuses will be performance-related. The seniority system will also disappear. With recognized capabilities, teachers in their early 40s can become vice principals, whereas long-serving teachers with low scores will miss out on promotion.

Parents and pupils will now get to evaluate teachers, which is curious from a social perspective, because the status of teachers has traditionally been so high in Korean’s highly Confucian society that the idea of students evaluating teachers might have been unthinkable not long ago.  Not surprisingly, the far-left Korean Teachers’ Union is bitterly opposed.