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Former university admissions officers are being faulted for leaving their positions and taking lucrative jobs at private education facilities, enticing students and parents by being experts in the college admission process.
As a blatant example of this, a former admissions officer at Korea University surnamed Park obtained a job at a college admission consulting institution identified as “T” in southern Seoul in June right after leaving his job at the university. The institution received about 3 million won ($2,840) for four consulting sessions run by Park.
A director of a hagwon near T said, “As [Park] has been working in the field, selecting students for the university until recently, he knows extremely well how to prepare and write up documents for university admissions.”
In 2009, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, in an effort to cool the country’s overheated private education system, known as hagwon, had established a new admission officer system that was to diversify standards for evaluating students and decrease reliance on the private education system.
Although Park’s actions - and the similar actions of other admissions officers - are being criticized as unethical, there are no legal measures to prohibit such phenomenon.
The public is criticizing the government for having no measures to regulate such unethical acts that foster private education when the object of the system was to curb private education in Korea.
Moreover, as 78 percent of admission officers in 60 universities throughout the country that have adopted the system are contract workers, there’s a high turnover rate of employees and most are now looking for posts in the private education industry.
The Education Ministry said that it will come up with a code of ethics and a system of incentives for universities that employ admission officers as permanent workers.
“We have decided to cooperate with the Korean Council for University Education to investigate the current status of former admission officers from all 60 universities throughout the country that adopt the system,” Jeong Jong-cheol, director of the college admissions system at the Education Ministry, said yesterday.
“In the meantime,” Jeong said, “we will also make efforts to pass the revised bill that would prohibit former admission officers to work in private education facilities at the provisional session of the National Assembly in August.”
By Yim Seung-hye, Park Su-ryon [sharon@joongang.co.kr]
As a blatant example of this, a former admissions officer at Korea University surnamed Park obtained a job at a college admission consulting institution identified as “T” in southern Seoul in June right after leaving his job at the university. The institution received about 3 million won ($2,840) for four consulting sessions run by Park.
A director of a hagwon near T said, “As [Park] has been working in the field, selecting students for the university until recently, he knows extremely well how to prepare and write up documents for university admissions.”
In 2009, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, in an effort to cool the country’s overheated private education system, known as hagwon, had established a new admission officer system that was to diversify standards for evaluating students and decrease reliance on the private education system.
Although Park’s actions - and the similar actions of other admissions officers - are being criticized as unethical, there are no legal measures to prohibit such phenomenon.
The public is criticizing the government for having no measures to regulate such unethical acts that foster private education when the object of the system was to curb private education in Korea.
Moreover, as 78 percent of admission officers in 60 universities throughout the country that have adopted the system are contract workers, there’s a high turnover rate of employees and most are now looking for posts in the private education industry.
The Education Ministry said that it will come up with a code of ethics and a system of incentives for universities that employ admission officers as permanent workers.
“We have decided to cooperate with the Korean Council for University Education to investigate the current status of former admission officers from all 60 universities throughout the country that adopt the system,” Jeong Jong-cheol, director of the college admissions system at the Education Ministry, said yesterday.
“In the meantime,” Jeong said, “we will also make efforts to pass the revised bill that would prohibit former admission officers to work in private education facilities at the provisional session of the National Assembly in August.”
By Yim Seung-hye, Park Su-ryon [sharon@joongang.co.kr]
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