South Korea's leading universities will invite 81 distinguished foreign scholars, including nine Nobel Prize laureates, to teach at their domestic campuses next year as part of a state-initiated campaign to upgrade the quality of the nation's higher education, Yonhap News reported Sunday quoting government officials.
The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said it will financially support the planned invitations of world-class scholars by 30 local universities, including Seoul National University, to participate in about 80 state-funded research projects in 2009.
The project, formally named the "World Class University" program, was launched in June under a government-led drive to improve educational quality at local colleges by allowing their students access to lectures from internationally eminent scholars and professors.
As the Korea Times article points out, South Korea's universities don't rank very well in international rankings, for whatever those rankings matter, with only two in the top 200. South Korea has been on a little bit of a kick to hire foreign professors lately. Seoul National University hired a bunch at the start of this semester, but the one who made the biggest news was the one who abruptly left her job.
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