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In South Korean colleges, homeroom lecturers are answerable for overseeing varied elements of their college students’ lives together with their tutorial progress and school functions, preserving common contact with mother and father if vital.
In line with Schooling Ministry knowledge made public Monday by Rep. Jin Seon-mi of the Democratic Occasion of Korea, the proportion of part-time lecturers serving as homeroom lecturers has been on the rise. Previously, homeroom instructor roles had been reserved for full-time lecturers.
Final yr, 15.6 % of all homeroom lecturers within the nation’s elementary, center and excessive colleges had been part-time, up from 14.8 % in 2022 and 11.1 % the yr earlier than.
Among the many nation’s main provinces, Busan had the best proportion of part-time homeroom lecturers at 21.3 %, adopted by North and South Gyeongsang Provinces at 18.5 % every.
In South Korea, each full-time and part-time lecturers maintain instructing certificates however differ in whether or not they have handed the nationwide instructor’s license examination. Half-time lecturers signal yearly contracts and are sometimes excluded from incentives and pay raises given to full-time lecturers.
Regardless of this disparity, part-time lecturers are sometimes requested to tackle further duties, comparable to homeroom or different administrative positions, which considerably improve the day by day workload, insiders say.
The South Korean Instructional Officers Act states that part-time lecturers mustn’t tackle “any supervisory place with vital accountability.”