In line with its no-tolerance policy for lousy schools, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology ordered two universities in South Jeolla to shut down if they don’t make immediate changes the ministry has demanded.Myungshin University has until September 27th to repay the embezzled funds, while Sunghwa College's deadline is October 1st.
The two schools, Myungshin University and Sunghwa College, are expected to close as both of the schools have been accused of corrupt practices such as giving grades and attendance records to thousands of students who never bothered going to classes, trying to boost their reputations.
“We expect the schools’ closings to be finished by early next year,” said Kim Dae-sung, an official at the Education Ministry.
The Korea Times writes that government subsidies to these 43 "lousy" schools will end "as part of a set of measures to weed out poorly-managed higher education establishments."
The government will also restrict loans for students attending 17 of the 43 schools. Loans to students at the worst four schools — Kundong University in Andong, North Gyeongsang Province; Myungshin University in Suncheon, South Jeolla Province; Holy People University in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province; and Sunghwa College in Gangjin, South Jeolla Province — will be limited to only 30 percent of tuition fees next year.
At least Sunghwa College has a neat campus.
The Korea JoongAng Daily embedded a list of the 43 "lousy" schools, typed after the jump:
The four-year colleges:
Chodang University
Chugye University for the Arts
Daebul University
Daejeon University
Far East University
Gyeongju University
Holy People University
Hyupsung University
Incheon Catholic University
International University
Joongbu University
Korea Christian University
Koshin University
Kundong University
Kwangdong University
Kyungdong University
Kyungnam University
Kyungsung University
Luther University
Mokwon University
Myungshin University
Pyeongtaek University
Sangmyung University
Seonam University
Seoul Christian University
Seowon University
Wonkwang University
Youngdong University
And the junior colleges:
Busan Arts CollegeNaver gives us the list in Korean:
Busan College of Information Technology
Byuksung College
Dongju College
Dong-U College
Jeonbuk Science College
Juseong University
Kimpo College
Kookje College
Saekyung University
Sohae College
Sorabol College
Sunghwa College
Woongji Accounting and Tax College
Yeongnam Foreign Language College
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경동대학교, 대불대학교, 루터대학교, 목원대학교, 원광대학교,
추계예술대학교, 건동대학교, 명신대학교, 선교청대학교, 경남대학교,
경성대학교, 경주대학교, 고신대학교, 그리스도대학교, 극동대학교,
관동대학교, 대전대학교, 상명대학교, 서남대학교, 서울기독대학교,
서원대학교, 영동대학교, 인천가톨릭대학교, 중부대학교, 초당대학교,
평택대학교, 한국국제대학교, 협성대학교
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동우대학, 벽성대학, 부산예술대학, 서해대학, 김포대학, 영남외국어대학,
전북과학대학, 성화대학, 국제대학, 동주대학, 부산정보대학, 서라벌대학,
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5 comments:
Some of those sound a bit fly-by-night, but a couple of those are in a position to, well, not be screwed up. I'm surprised they made it on the list.
If they can restructure their way out of the mess, great, but I hope they don't plug the gaping the hole left by this lack of funding with Chinese students.
(Not a knock against Chinese students, the nationalistic herd mentality of some of them aside, but a dig at the facile solution of expanding student rolls from abroad instead of aiming at genuine solutions.)
A good handful of religious schools in the mix. Jesus represent!
Kyungsung University should be OK. It's 5 seconds from the subway station named after it, the subway line runs past most of the desirable real estate in terms of university aged kidz, and it's in the middle of the party district of Gwanganli.
Transport access and fun times will trump government approval 10 times out of ten.
It would be nice to see the US government take a similarly hard line on the scandals over for-profit colleges with abysmal graduation rates soaking up student loan dollars.
Yep.
EDMC is down the street in Pittsburgh, and they're one sleazy operation. Too bad they're also one of the biggest employers here.
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