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One of the major issues among colleges and universities in Korea is the government’s ‘Higher Education Restructuring Project’ designed to cope with a decreasing school-age population. National total fertility rates are now lower than at any other past period (estimated at below 1.0 as of 2018), which means that many colleges and universities that were established during periods of population growth will find themselves contributing to an oversupply of higher education services. Thus in 2015, Korean government implemented a project to reduce the number of colleges and universities because of the decreasing population and to set up a higher education restructuring project. This presentation will address the following questions: How does the population decrease affect the government’s higher-education policy?; What are the concept, model, and implementation procedure for the higher education restructuring?, and How can a strategic approach be applied to the existing process and what can we expect?
Video of Sung Jae Park's presentation on 02/22/19 at East-West Center:
One of the major issues among colleges and universities in Korea is the government’s ‘Higher Education Restructuring Project’ designed to cope with a decreasing school-age population. National total fertility rates are now lower than at any other past period (estimated at below 1.0 as of 2018), which means that many colleges and universities that were established during periods of population growth will find themselves contributing to an oversupply of higher education services. Thus in 2015, Korean government implemented a project to reduce the number of colleges and universities because of the decreasing population and to set up a higher education restructuring project. This presentation will address the following questions: How does the population decrease affect the government’s higher-education policy?; What are the concept, model, and implementation procedure for the higher education restructuring?, and How can a strategic approach be applied to the existing process and what can we expect?
Video of Sung Jae Park's presentation on 02/22/19 at East-West Center: