In a survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, Seoul National University, Korea University, and other six universities, the parent's job description in the self-introduction letter and the participation of the parent professor in the screening the child took were uncovered.
However, there seems to be some criticism that it is not a wildfire investigation, as no direct evidence was found for the high school grading system (a system that evaluates students by grading schools), which was the focus of the investigation.
The Ministry of Education held the 17th'Educational Confidence Restoration Promotion Group Meeting' today (13th) and discussed the results of a specific audit (university) following the survey on the actual condition of the school type.
In October of last year, the Ministry of Education conducted a survey on the actual condition of 13 universities, including Seoul National University, in order to secure the reliability of college admissions, and six of them, including Seoul National University, Korea University, Sogang University, Sungkyunkwan University, Kyunghee University, and Konkuk University, reported that additional investigations were needed over a year. We started a follow-up investigation.
The Ministry of Education revealed that it has taken serious disciplinary action against 108 people, including 7 severe disciplinary punishment and 13 minor disciplinary action as a result of a follow-up survey of 6 universities.
Five administrative measures were also taken, including one institutional warning.
Specifically, Sungkyunkwan University evaluated 45 out of 82 applicants who wrote ``parents and other relatives'', which were prohibited to be entered in self-introduction or teacher recommendation at the 2019 School Type Document Verification Committee, but 37 were evaluated as ``no problem''. Was severely disciplined.
Sungkyunkwan University also assigned only one evaluator in the school type document screening that requires two cross-evaluations in the 2018-2019 school year, and the fact that the appraiser alone gave a total of 1,107 test takers twice for each test taker and evaluated it. received.
In certain departments of Seoul National University, in the 2019 regional balanced selection interview evaluation, where the number of applicants is 6, all 17 applicants were given a C grade (inadequate) for ``less academic ability'', and no one was selected.
By regulation, A+ 10%, A 30%, B 30%, and C 30% are given each.
In some cases, parents, who are faculty members, were commissioned as scorers or test supervisors for the entrance examinations that their children took.
Sogang University appoints the professor as a scoring committee member of the same department even though the professor's child applied for the 2016 essay screening.
Sungkyunkwan University also commissioned the school staff as test supervisors even after learning that four children of the school staff applied for the 2016 essay excellence screening.
However, all of the test takers, who are children, were not absent or failed, so all were warned.
In last year's survey, the Ministry of Education identified the circumstances in which each university would have applied the high school grade system, which is prohibited in the current entrance examination system, and proceeded with further investigation, but in the end failed to reveal this.
Earlier, the Ministry of Education said that as a result of examining the acceptance rate by type of high school in 13 universities last year, science and gifted high schools were 26.1%, 2.9 times that of general high schools (9.1%).
As for the grades submitted by applicants, general high school was high in the order of in-house high school, foreign high school, international high school, and science high school, but the percentage of successful applicants was in reverse order, indicating that additional confirmation was required.
An official from the Ministry of Education said, "We intensively investigated various internal documents, evaluation systems, and educational materials for appraisers, but we did not find any clear evidence to judge that specific high school types were preferred, such as weighting scores for each high school."
The Ministry of Education is planning to recommend that 16 universities in Seoul, which are focused on specific admissions such as academic type, expand the SAT-based admission by more than 40% by the 2023 school year to increase the reliability of college admission.
The Ministry of Education said that it has conducted an additional survey on the status of registration in the student department at school sites in 17 metropolitan and provincial offices of education as well as six universities and confirmed 209 cases of violation of the registration ban.
It was revealed that six high schools were given'institutional warnings', 23 teachers were given'cautions', and 161 cases were recommended to be corrected.
At today's Trust Restoration Team meeting, the results of a total violence damage survey conducted on 59,000 elementary, middle and high school student athletes from July to August were also discussed.
55,000 people, or 93.3%, participated in the survey, of which 680 or 1.2% said they were victims of violence.
By gender, male students (1.3%) were higher than female students (1.0%), and elementary students (1.8%) were higher than middle and high school students (1.0%).
The number of perpetrators was 519, with 338 being the same student player.
The number of physical education instructors was 155, 7 teachers, and 19 others.
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