“More than 100 students out of 850 students in SNU drop out of school in the first grade every year…

“More than 100 students out of 850 students in SNU drop out of school in the first grade every year. Most of them are to take the CSAT again and go to medical school.” (Kim Young-oh, dean of Seoul National University College of Engineering)

The present standing of Seoul National University’s College of Engineering, the cradle of fostering science and expertise abilities in Korea, has been revealed. The analysis is that the “medical focus” phenomenon exceeds the threshold and threatens the future of the nation’s core industries.

On the twenty fourth, the Gwanhun Club held a seminar at the KAL Hotel in Seogwipo, Jeju underneath the theme of “Science and Technology Human Resources Development Challenges and Prospects.” Kim Young-oh, president of Seoul National University’s engineering division, unveiled the leak of science and engineering expertise. According to Dean Kim, extra than 100 students out of 850 admissions at Seoul National University College of Engineering go away school in the first grade every yr. Since 2015, the quantity of defectors has lately exceeded 120 per yr.

Dean Kim stated, “In particular, the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering is perceived as favorable for medical school preparation because it deals with chemistry and biology, so 25% of new students drop out after a year.” “Despite the fact that manufacturing accounts for 28% of gross domestic product (GDP), it is a national crisis for talented people to avoid science and engineering,” he recognized.

Ahn Jun-mo, a professor of public administration at Korea University, stated, “There are cultural characteristics underlying this phenomenon.” “According to a study by Dutch social psychologist G. Hobstedder, Koreans are one of the most inclined countries to avoid uncertainty in the world,” Professor Ahn stated. “This cultural characteristic is why people prefer jobs such as doctors and lawyers, which guarantee stable high incomes, rather than science and technology fields that are at risk of failure.”

Professor Ahn stated, “In this culture, it is difficult for innovators like Steve Jobs to come out.” “Americans see wild challenges such as the Guinness Book of World Records challenge as a ‘frontier spirit’, but we avoid uncertainty extremely,” he stated. “Just as Steve Jobs called HP’s Bill Hewlett at the age of 13 to request parts and get an internship, entrepreneurs do not come out of nowhere in a harsh environment, but are raised in this culture.”

Experts additionally concurred that inefficient and contradictory academic insurance policies are accelerating the collapse of the science and engineering sector.

Professor Ahn Jun-mo criticized, “While huge budgets are spent on primary and secondary education, the financial investment of universities (higher education) that needs to cultivate talents is far below the OECD average,” including, “It is the root cause of the aging of experimental equipment in university laboratories and science high schools.”

In explicit, he pointed out, “It is absurd to prevent prior learning (deep learning) of science high school students under the name of the ‘Public Education Normalization Act’ as it is not enough to cause confusion by separating science high schools and gifted high schools.” In different phrases, it’s to pick gifted folks and stop in-depth schooling.

Need a ‘lifelong schooling’ system in the 100-year-old eranWe must reform it by having a ‘senior presidential secretary for innovation’ in the president’s workplace

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