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www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15175962

South Korea to digitize all textbooks by 2015
BBC News - Business
By Gary Eason



South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum.
 
By 2015, it wants to be able to deliver all its curriculum materials in a digital form through computers. The information that would once have been in paper textbooks will be delivered on screen.
 
The BBC reports other news and innovations in the education of South Koreans.
  • South Korea is second in global rankings for reading, fourth for maths and fifth for science
  • Family spending on education is the highest in the world, as a proportion of household income
  • It has been among the most improved education systems in the world. In 1945, 78% of the population were illiterate. It now outperforms all European countries and the US at reading
  • In the 1980s, South Korea banned private tutoring
  • This year (2011?)  it introduced a ban on corporal punishment
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South Korea to digitize all textbooks by 2015

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Reading Skills, Business Opportunities, Managing Information, Social Responsibility, Other Government Resources, Communications & Media

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Informative, Educational, Text

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BBC News
Gary Eason

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Adult(19+)

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Postsecondary, Graduate, Adult General, Professional

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Korea, Republic of

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