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

The PRC regards education as the most important state affair and takes all necessary measures to improve educational conditions and environment. Since the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Chongro in January 2021, various policies related to upbringing and education of children have been discussed and decided at important Party meetings. The 11th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPC dealt with the issue of strengthening the country’s educational f

Successes have been achieved in the effort to consolidate the country’s educational foundation. Kim Il Sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology and University of Sciences developed into research-oriented universities where teaching, scientific research and production are integrated. Many other universities and colleges instituted new departments and introduced hundreds of subjects to train talents for key industrial sectors. Dozens of provincial-level colleges of