Do You Have Ideas to Reduce Private Education Costs?... North Gyeongsang Office of Education Launches Best Practices Contest

The North Gyeongsang Provincial Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Jong-sik) will hold the '2025 Private Education Cost Reduction Best Practices Contest' for elementary, middle, and high schools in the province until October 30, 2025, aiming to effectively reduce private education expenses at schools and restore trust in public education.

This contest is designed to identify a 'unique project for each school,' encouraging schools to independently develop models for reducing private education costs and to spread these models throughout the field.

After-school activities at Mungyeong Hoseonam Elementary School

Each school is required to operate a distinctive program that reflects local conditions and student needs, then submit a report detailing the results. After recommendations from the local education support offices, the North Gyeongsang Provincial Office of Education's review committee will evaluate the submissions and select a total of nine schools: one top prize and two excellence prizes for each school level (elementary, middle, and high school).

The evaluation criteria include: △ excellence of programs reflecting local and school characteristics, △ linkage with the school curriculum, △ strengthening of students' self-directed learning capabilities, △ efforts to reduce private education expenses, and △ efforts to improve parental awareness.

The selected best practices will be shared via the North Gyeongsang Provincial Office of Education website and a casebook, and will be disseminated to all schools in the North Gyeongsang region.

The North Gyeongsang Provincial Office of Education plans to use this contest to discover models for reducing private education costs based on each school's autonomy and regional characteristics, and to lay the groundwork for public education innovation that can be felt directly in schools.

Lim Jong-sik, Superintendent of the North Gyeongsang Provincial Office of Education, stated, "The most reliable way to reduce private education is for public education to earn trust," and added, "We will actively support schools as they take the lead in creating a virtuous cycle model for reducing private education costs in collaboration with their local communities."

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