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Nine Nobel laureates invited to teach in Korea next year
By Yoo Cheong-mo
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's leading universities will invite 81 distinguished foreign scholars, including nine Nobel Prize laureates, to teach at their domestic campuses next year as part of a state-initiated campaign to upgrade the quality of the nation's higher education, government officials said Sunday.
The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said it will financially
support the planned invitations of world-class scholars by 30 local universities
-- including Seoul National University, Yonsei University and Korea University --
to participate in about 80 state-funded research projects in 2009.
The project, formally named the "World Class University" program, was launched in
June under a government-led drive to improve educational quality at local
colleges by allowing their students access to lectures from internationally
eminent scholars and professors.
"The government will next year spend a total of 20 billion won (US$15.3 million)
on the World Class University program, awarding about 200 million won to each
research project involving at least one chair or guest professor from abroad,"
said a ministry spokesman.
"The 81 foreign scholars invited to temporarily teach in South Korea include nine
winners of the Nobel Prize, 12 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
and 18 members of the U.S. National Academy Engineering," said the spokesman.
The Nobel Prize scientists invited to various Korean universities include Paul
Crutzen, Kurt Wuethrich and Roger D. Kornberg, who won the prize in chemistry in
1995, 2002 and 2006, respectively. Louis Ignarro and Andrew Z. Fire, winners of
the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology in 1998 and 2006, respectively, will
also come to Korea next year.
South Korea had only two universities ranked in Time's 2007 list of 200 top
universities worldwide -- KAIST and Seoul National University. At Seoul National
University in 2006, foreign scholars accounted for 0.4 percent of its 1,773
person staff, compared to 12.8 percent in China's Tsinghua University and 5
percent in Japan's Tokyo University, according to ministry data.
ycm@yna.co.kr
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SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's leading universities will invite 81 distinguished foreign scholars, including nine Nobel Prize laureates, to teach at their domestic campuses next year as part of a state-initiated campaign to upgrade the quality of the nation's higher education, government officials said Sunday.
The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said it will financially
support the planned invitations of world-class scholars by 30 local universities
-- including Seoul National University, Yonsei University and Korea University --
to participate in about 80 state-funded research projects in 2009.
The project, formally named the "World Class University" program, was launched in
June under a government-led drive to improve educational quality at local
colleges by allowing their students access to lectures from internationally
eminent scholars and professors.
"The government will next year spend a total of 20 billion won (US$15.3 million)
on the World Class University program, awarding about 200 million won to each
research project involving at least one chair or guest professor from abroad,"
said a ministry spokesman.
"The 81 foreign scholars invited to temporarily teach in South Korea include nine
winners of the Nobel Prize, 12 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
and 18 members of the U.S. National Academy Engineering," said the spokesman.
The Nobel Prize scientists invited to various Korean universities include Paul
Crutzen, Kurt Wuethrich and Roger D. Kornberg, who won the prize in chemistry in
1995, 2002 and 2006, respectively. Louis Ignarro and Andrew Z. Fire, winners of
the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology in 1998 and 2006, respectively, will
also come to Korea next year.
South Korea had only two universities ranked in Time's 2007 list of 200 top
universities worldwide -- KAIST and Seoul National University. At Seoul National
University in 2006, foreign scholars accounted for 0.4 percent of its 1,773
person staff, compared to 12.8 percent in China's Tsinghua University and 5
percent in Japan's Tokyo University, according to ministry data.
ycm@yna.co.kr
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