Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- Ordinance of
the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly on enforcing universal 12-year compulsory
education was promulgated at the sixth session of the 12th SPA held in
Pyongyang Tuesday.
According to the ordinance, the DPRK government
enforced the compulsory primary education in 1956, compulsory secondary
education in 1958 and Korean-style unique universal 9-year compulsory technical
education which closely combined secondary general education with basic
technical education and education with production in 1967.
In 1972 the DPRK government introduced the
universal 11-year compulsory education, the first of its kind in the world.
The enforcement of the universal 11-year
education was a just measure for raising the level of free compulsory
education, improving the contents of education and bringing up the new
generations to be able revolutionaries and competent socialist builders
intensely loyal to the party, the leader, the country and its people as
required by the era and the developing revolution.
The DPRK is now demonstrating its might as a
dignified military power possessed of nuclear deterrent, a country that
manufactures and launches satellites. Korean-style CNC technology and flexible
production system have been introduced to the different domains of the national
economy and a great number of Juche-based and modern heavy and light industrial
bases and grand monuments have been built. This is associated with the feats
and merits of young scientists and youth who have grown up, receiving the
universal 11-year compulsory education.
The Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government
are set to enforce the universal 12-year compulsory education reflecting the
present requirements for building a prosperous socialist country in all fields
now that the requirements for education have risen higher than ever before.
The enforcement of the universal 12-year
compulsory education is a step reflecting the dear respected Kim Jong Un's
noble outlooks on the country, the younger generation and future and it is a
great event that demonstrates before the whole world that the DPRK is dynamically
advancing toward an educational power and a highly civilized socialist country.
The universal 12-year compulsory education is
the most just and advantageous education for drastically raising the quality of
education to meet the requirements for the development of education in the age
of knowledge-based economy and the trend of the world and bringing up the
younger generation to be Juche-type able revolutionaries possessed of ample
secondary general knowledge, modern basic technology and creative ability.
The SPA of the DPRK discussed the issue of
enforcing the universal 12-year compulsory education and made a decision.
According to the decision, the universal
12-year compulsory education shall be enforced in all areas of the DPRK.
The universal 12-year compulsory education
shall be enforced free of charge and all children from 5 to 17 years are
obliged to receive this education.
This education consists of one-year pre-school
education and five-year primary schooling, three-year junior middle schooling
and three-year senior middle schooling.
The six-year middle schooling shall be enforced
from the 2013-2014 school year, divided into three-year junior middle schooling
and three-year senior middle schooling.
The work for converting the four-year primary
schooling to five-year primary schooling shall go through the preparatory phase
to be started in the 2014-2015 school year and this shall be finished in 2-3
years.
Educational system and education of special
courses of study shall be decided as separate issues.
Measures shall be taken to solve the shortage
of teachers resulting from the enforcement of the universal 12-year compulsory
education, raise their qualifications and improve educational methods.
State investment in education shall be
increased and conditions and environment necessary for the enforcement of the
universal 12-year compulsory education be created.
Administrative guidance and legal control shall
be strengthened for the successful enforcement of the universal 12-year
compulsory education.-0-
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