Ulsan Office of Education to Shorten School Comprehensive Audit Period

Reducing School Workload from September... Preventing Negligence by Concurrent Cyber Audits Including NEIS

Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education is reducing the comprehensive audit period for schools from the existing 3 days to 2 days to ease the workload on schools in consideration of the COVID-19 situation.

The Office of Education announced on the 17th that it decided to resume comprehensive audits for kindergartens, elementary, middle, and high schools, which had been suspended since May to prevent COVID-19 and support in-person classes, starting in September.

Although the school field is facing difficulties due to COVID-19, considering that under the current system comprehensive audits can be postponed but not completely exempted, the audits will be resumed with a shortened period.

It also took into account that many schools wish to undergo audits within this year as postponing the audits has become a burden.

With the comprehensive audits postponed to after September this year, some schools will receive audits next year. A total of 22 institutions had their audits postponed this year: 7 public and private kindergartens, 10 elementary schools, and 5 private high schools.

Comprehensive audits are conducted on overall matters related to educational and academic affairs. The audit cycle for kindergartens and schools is 3 years.

The Office of Education plans to actively utilize cyber audits using NEIS (National Education Information System) and K-EduFine (National Management Accounting System) to prevent any deficiencies caused by the shortened audit period when resuming comprehensive audits from September.

An official from the Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education said, “Recently, the city council has also expressed concerns that postponing comprehensive audits might weaken the monitoring function over school administration,” adding, “We have prepared measures to ensure that while reducing the workload on schools, comprehensive audits can be conducted thoroughly.”

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