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In eight years’ time, robots will be running classrooms, a conference in South Korea has heard. Michael Fitzpatrick reports

In eight years’ time, robots will be running classrooms, a conference in South Korea has heard. Michael Fitzpatrick reports

Overcrowding has been a problem since the Fifties, but Michael Fitzpatrick asks whether Japan’s `classes packed like sushi rice’ syndrome is at an end

Michael Fitzpatrick asks whether Japan’s overcrowding problem is at an end

South Korean union members who opposed national tests got a visit from the law

Children as young as four are attending cram schools in South Korea. The reason? The university you attend will dictate your career, income and marriage. But has the point of learning been forgotten and is a 24-hour education worthwhile?