10 Billion Won in Support for Junior College Students through Work-Study Program
By offering work places for the students and providing government scholarships in return, the Work-Study Program seeks to help students acquire on-site work experience and raise their employability while enrolled in school. The Program, first introduced in 2005, is also intended as a means of contributing to higher education equality.
A total of 10 billion Korean won has been allocated for the Program in 2008, which comprises 8 billion won from government budgets and 2 billion won from junior colleges’ matching funds. The budget will go into providing approximately 5,000 students at 148 junior colleges nationwide. This breaks down into a scholarship of 2 million won per student per year in average.
In selecting scholarship students, priority will be given to students from basic livelihood recipient households and also households whose medical insurance payment is lower than the national average. In cases where there are too many applicants, junior colleges are allowed to set further criteria on their own such as academic grades and professor recommendations.
Selected scholarship students are to work for maximum 20 hours per week(maximum 40 hours per week during vacation periods and for those attending night-classes) at work places designated by the junior college. This includes industries, business incubator centers, school companies, public organizations, research institutes, laboratories, libraries, social welfare facilities and others.
Students will be paid 5,000~7,000 Korean won per hour(5,000 for on-campus work; 7,000 for work outside campus), a wage rate much higher than the minimum 3,770 won per hour regulation set by the Ministry of Labor.
The ministry’s decision to expand the Work-Study Program this year to all junior colleges across the nation comes from its findings in satisfaction surveys, which indicate that in 2007, 60.9 percent of scholarship recipients regarded the work experience helpful in locating employment after graduation, up 12.5 percent from 2005.
A 2006 survey also showed that 81.7 percent of the year’s scholarship recipients found employment related to their own majors, higher than the 72.6 percent average of all junior college students.
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