Big Efforts Paid to Tele-education in DPRK
In the DPRK, big efforts have been paid to tele-education which is playing a big role in making all the people well versed in science and technology and preparing all the working people to be intelligent workers.
According to Kim Jong Hak, department director of the Education Commission, thousands of industrial establishments joined in the tele-education system run by scores of universities like
Kim Chaek University of Technology which contributed to putting the country's tele-education on an IT basis by developing Korean-style tele-intellectual education management system, Pyongyang University of Mechanical Engineering, Pyongyang University of Medicine, and Wonsan University of Agriculture are now normalising the operation of tele-academic unification system in liaison with relevant universities.
Many people, who got tele-education, have contributed to the activation of production and the modernisation of equipment. Among them are a technician of the Rangnang Disabled Soldiers' Essential Plastic Goods Factory who invented more than 50 technical innovation plans and a work-team leader of the Pyongyang General Printing Plant who presented several inventions and technical findings conducive to improving the quality of prints.
In the DPRK, everyone can get tele-education according to their wishes, irrespective of age, length of service and type of occupation.
The units and students involved in the tele-education system are steadily growing in number.