[2021 National Audit] "University Competency Evaluation Reflects Issues Pointed Out by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission as Achievements"

10 Institutions Criticized by the Anti-Corruption Commission Classified as Selected Universities Based on Competency Evaluation
Assemblyman Park Chandae: "Selection Results May Change if Scores Vary According to Some Indicator Grades"

Submission materials of university performance related to special audit and points raised by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (Data provided by Assemblyman Park Chandae's office)

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] It has been revealed that false or exaggerated reports by universities were reflected as achievements in the Ministry of Education's University Basic Competency Diagnosis Evaluation. Following the audit results of tuition embezzlement reports, there are calls to reconsider the evaluation results as the issues pointed out by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission were not reflected.

On the 1st, Park Chandae, a member of the National Assembly's Education Committee from the Democratic Party of Korea, stated, "Despite conducting a special audit due to tuition embezzlement reports at some universities, the related audit results were not reflected in the diagnosis evaluation," and pointed out, "The audit contents overlap with evaluation indicators, and the universities reported related matters as achievements, but most of these were false or exaggerated."

Ten universities flagged by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission were also classified as selected universities in the competency evaluation results. In the case of University A, it submitted mentoring-based human network building and career psychological counseling as achievements and best practices of learning competency enhancement programs, but according to the Commission's investigation, these were false achievements, proxy-written, or exaggerated. A significant number of mentoring or counseling sessions at the university were found to have never actually occurred between staff and students or were brief meetings during lunch breaks.

Submission materials of university performance related to special audit and points raised by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (Data provided by Assemblyman Park Chandae's office)

University B reported checking students' health status via KakaoTalk and expanded the student counseling professor system as achievements, as well as student career psychological counseling achievements. University C submitted content related to strengthening management of student guidance expenses as part of curriculum operation and improvement, but the student guidance achievements themselves were found to be false, or staff were reported to have guidance achievements while on leave or business trips.

The perfect score for the related indicators was 32 points, and the gap between schools based on total scores was only 0.133 points. Assemblyman Park Chandae pointed out, "In some indicators, the grade can change by 1 point, so depending on whether these are reflected, the results of selected and non-selected universities could also change."

Furthermore, there are concerns about discrepancies between the results of the actual condition survey conducted by the Board of Audit and Inspection in April and the University Basic Competency Diagnosis results. The Board of Audit and Inspection evaluated two out of eight universities as having poor curricula in an investigation conducted earlier this year, but seven universities, excluding those that underwent integration, were classified as selected in this diagnosis evaluation.

Assemblyman Park said, "It is very regrettable that suspicions of negligence arose in the evaluation process conducted without legal grounds for the University Basic Competency Diagnosis project, and it is impossible to streamline universities with such flawed evaluations that lack discriminatory power," and urged, "A prompt actual condition investigation into the raised issues must be conducted."

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