Posts tagged 'Education'.
From 2026, school violence records now apply to all university admissions tracks in South Korea. Ten national universities rejected 162 applicants based on these records. The intent is clear — but the reality has turned out more complicated than expected.
After analyzing 230 policies across 35 education systems, the OECD's Education Policy Outlook 2025 reaches an uncomfortable conclusion: adult learning participation has barely moved in decades, while literacy and numeracy skills are actually declining.
The 2026 Suneung entered its second year under a policy banning so-called 'killer questions' — ultra-hard problems that require university-level thinking and drive students toward expensive private tutoring. Meanwhile, an even larger structural overhaul is set for 2028.
According to the OECD's Education at a Glance 2025, published in September 2025, university enrollment is at record highs while adult literacy and numeracy skills are stagnating or declining. We unpack the paradox between credentials and real-world ability.
The EU and OECD have jointly released an AI Literacy Framework for primary and secondary education, built around 22 competencies across 4 domains. Could this become the blueprint for teaching the next generation to live with AI?