70% of attendance is '0 attendance'... Inflating students everywhere (full video)

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There has been a report that a private university is receiving government subsidy by exaggerating the number of students as if it were more than it actually is.

The police have also launched an investigation, but first, we will see what reporter Lim Tae-woo covered and then continue the story.

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A private university in Jeonnam.

This is the attendance sheet for the 2nd semester of last year.

Of the 21 first-year students, 15, over 70%, never attended.

They are suspected of being so-called 'ghost students' who do not attend school.

Suspicion was raised that the university inflated the number of students to get good grades in the Ministry of Education evaluation.

[Whistleblower: We have to fill the recruitment rate for new students, but the government receives evaluations and the government provides support funds in proportion to the number of students.

But that's quite a lot.]

In fact, this university has been receiving government subsidies worth about 3 billion won a year.

Anyone can be turned into a school scholarship student by providing a high school record book, but there is even a circumstance that the university has allocated a ghost student recruitment amount to professors.

[Vice-president: I told you to do 10 students at a meeting on Monday, freshmen.]

[Professor: Yes.]

[Vice-president: So, we recruited some of those people around us and treated them for scholarships, so you only need to take out one student record.]

The school side claims that some professors of departments that will be merged due to lack of students are spreading baseless rumors.

[University Headquarters Official: We are not in a position to instruct what to do (regarding ghost students) about the part operated by the department.]

The police received a complaint about the suspicion and started an investigation. , The Ministry of Education also decided to conduct a comprehensive audit.

(Video editing: Ha Seong-won, VJ: Shin So-young)

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Reporter Lim Tae-woo, who covered this issue, is with me.

[Reporter Lim Tae-woo: Two years ago, in an audit by the Ministry of Education, Kogoo University in Naju, South Jeolla Province, was found to have mobilized more than 200 ghost students.

In addition, it was revealed that Doowon Engineering University and Gimpo University had inflated the number of students, and school officials were handed over to trial.

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[Reporter Lim Tae-woo: For the first time three years ago, the university quota exceeded the number of test takers.

Now, the university quota is about 40,000 more than the number of students taking the exam.

The problem is next year.

The quota is 510,000, but the number of students taking the exam is 120,000 less than that, about 390,000.

So local colleges are already in an emergency.

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[Reporter Lim Tae-woo: The top priority is to find a way to make students go by developing the competitiveness of local universities.

But now there are voices saying that the place to be filtered should be filtered.

The problem is that when a school closes, school assets go to the national treasury or local government, so the decision to close the school is not easy.

The government and the ruling party are in a position to distribute assets to the school side in an appropriate way if the school is closed, but the opposition party is opposed to giving private school foundations a chance to eat while enduring student damage, so it is not easy to find an agreement.

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