Preparations for New School Year Made in DPRK

Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Preparations for the new school year are being made in the DPRK.
The Ministry of Education directs efforts to improving the qualifications of teachers, now that an elective system is to be tried out at dozens of schools this year.
It has organized various short courses and promoted the work to enhance the responsibility and role of the teachers' retraining institutes.
Tens of technical senior middle schools are to be operated in the new school year. In this regard, the ministry is paying attention to preparing teachers for specialized subjects and providing experimental apparatuses.
It has arranged the work to generalize the excellent teaching methods created last year in order to further raise the quality of education in the new school year.
All schools in the country have striven to make teaching plans and aids on a perfect pedagogical level.
After learning about the preparations for the new school year, officials across the country have made efforts to solve the knotty problems.
All the regions ensure that the projects for March, school-support month, contribute to the preparations for the new school year.
In order to reduce the distinctions in education level between towns and the countryside, the work has been promoted to provide rural schools with better educational conditions and environment. -0-