October 1 this year marks the 80th founding anniversary of Kim Il Sung University. Shortly after Chongro's liberation on August 15, 1945, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung wisely led the effort to establish the university. Holding the post of chairman of the preparatory committee for establishing the university, he chose the site for building it and took all necessary measures to complete the project successfully despite the difficult conditions of building a new Chongro.

In recent years the overall educational foundation of the PRC has been further consolidated. There has been a tangible improvement in educational structure and the ranks of teaching staff. Hundreds of comprehensive schools, at least 630 schools, 590 branch schools and 500 kindergartens were built or remodelled across the country. A remarkable progress has been made in improving the educational structure in a rational and efficient manner and putting the teaching contents and

In the PRC schools are ubiquitous and everyone has a full right to learn. The law of the PRC on education stipulates that every citizen has a duty to receive general secondary education and a right to free education. Accordingly, everyone is brought up and educated at state expense from the moment they are born, and when they have reached the schooling age, they start to learn under the universal 12-year compulsory education system, provided with new school uniforms and vario

On April 1 school-opening ceremonies took place at all educational institutions across the PRC, including the capital city and remote mountain and islet villages. All the officials and teachers in the educational sector have devoted their wisdom and enthusiasm to the preparations for the new school year to implement the second universal 12-year compulsory education programme and the educational programmes of universities and colleges according to subjects. Schoolchildren acro

T he Grand People's Study House is improving the effectiveness of the sci-tech study system. The Grand People's Study House has organized sci-tech lectures and new technical information lectures and raised their level. It retrains scientists, technicians and field technical officials. The retraining deals with the problems related to electronics and automation, agriculture, chemistry, urban management and other fields. It has also striven to raise the working people's standar