MEST and the Korea Council of University Education (KCUE) announced the result of the review on the admissions official system on the 11th.

The review was aimed at the faithful implementation of the admissions officer system by assessing whether colleges have put into practice their plan for the admissions officer system.  MEST and the KCUE scrutinized 60 universities admission procedures that are part of the 2010 College Admissions System Support Project, checking whether the schools complied with the common criteria in running the college admissions officer system and whether they followed the project plans they submitted.  The review process included ① evaluation on universities’ early/regular admissions→② review of KCUE’s project management and assessment team→③ listening to the colleges’ opinion→④ field inspection on each college→⑤ complaints reception→⑥ evaluation of the College Admissions System Policy Council.

After the review, Korea University and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, which received recommendation to revise and complement their admissions system according to the original goal of the university admissions officer system when they were selected as one of the first schools to adopt the system, were pointed out for not fully complying with the recommendation.  Also, the Catholic University of Korea, Korea University, Seoul National University, and KAIST were found out to have violated the “Common Criteria for Administering the College Admissions System.”

Regarding such violations, MEST and the KCUE plans to recoup some of the government funding to those institutions. The government will recover 30% of the funding it provided to Korea University and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in 2010, and 3% of its 2010 funding from the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul National University, and KAIST.

Officials of MEST and KCUE said, “We will continue to evaluate the operation of college admissions officer systems, and reflect the result into government funding schemes in order to make sure that the system is run faithfully.” 

* Government press release (March 11)