KAIST Violates 'Public Education Normalization Act' for 2nd Year, Partial Admission Suspension for 2022 Academic Year Students

Ministry of Education Conducts Third Curriculum Normalization Deliberation Committee Meeting via Written Procedure
Analyzes Violation of High School Curriculum in 2,460 Questions from 63 Universities

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[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunju Lee] The Ministry of Education has finalized corrective orders for universities that violated the high school curriculum in subject-specific questions among universities that conducted their own entrance exams. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), which failed to comply for two consecutive years, is expected to face a partial suspension of admissions for the 2022 academic year.

On the 13th, the Ministry of Education announced that through the 3rd Curriculum Normalization Deliberation Committee's written meeting, it finalized the universities that violated the "Act on the Promotion of Public Education Normalization" and notified each university of the results.

The Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation's Center for Prevention of Early Education analyzed 2,460 questions from 63 universities that conducted their own entrance exams from the 2017 to 2020 academic years to determine whether they violated the high school curriculum. This investigation is based on the Special Act on the Promotion of Public Education Normalization and Regulation of Early Education. It examines whether individual exam questions, prompts, and scoring criteria included content outside the high school curriculum.

As a result, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) was found to have violated the high school curriculum in 2 math questions, Seoul National University of Science and Technology in 1 math question, and KAIST in 1 math question. Jungwon University was found to have insufficient implementation of corrective orders from the 2019 academic year.

The Ministry of Education ordered the violating universities to correct their violations this year to prevent recurrence next year and notified them to submit a report on the results of the implementation plan for recurrence prevention measures by the end of March next year. In KAIST's case, having violated the Public Education Normalization Act for two consecutive years, the Ministry of Education has issued a preliminary notice of partial suspension of admissions. It also plans to request supervisory measures from the Ministry of Science and ICT, the relevant authority. The level of suspension will be finalized through a deliberation committee review after the university's objection process following the preliminary notice.

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