Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

The Outcomes of College Admission Policies under Lee, Myung-bak Administration

In 2008, the Myung-bak Lee administration announced its plan to enhance autonomous college admission process in three steps as one of its major education objectives to achieve autonomous and diversified education system. The plan was to gradually hand over the tasks of establishing the standards for student selection to universities and to achieve complete college autonomy by the year 2012. Therefore, the evaluation of current college admissions policies has been mainly focused on the admissions officer system that had been implemented in the former administration and related issues. However, on the downside, there has been little specific analysis on the outcomes that influenced the operation of college admissions policies such as the issues of college autonomy, improvements and changes in the National College Scholastic Ability Test. Therefore, it is time that comprehensive policy evaluation of college admissions process is needed.