A brisk work is going on to improve educational contents and methods in the field of general education.

New textbooks have been prepared at the final stage for the universal compulsory 12-year education system, which will be enforced in the country from Juche 103 (2014).

Various forms of teaching courses were organized on a nationwide scale to create new teaching methods and generalize them.

Secondary schools were divided into junior and senior secondary schools and, accordingly, more schools have been built under the support of the government.

Giving deep attention to the construction of news schools, people's committees in provinces and counties have taken steps to provide all schools with enough experimental apparatuses and athletic equipment and goods.

Efforts have been made to reinforce educational facilities and improve the quality of education in the field of higher education, too.

A new modern library has taken its shape at Pyongyang Medical College under Kim Il Sung University. Meanwhile, the construction of such libraries is going at the final stage at Hamhung University of Chemical Engineering, Hamhung University of Medicine and Chongjin University of Mining and Metallurgy.

Some universities opened new faculties and courses to intensify the education in ultra-modern technology in keeping with the demand of the present times, thus raising the level of the higher education system.

The Central Information Agency for Science and Technology and the Grand People's Study House established a system of providing people with new technologies in real time.

Kim Chaek University of Technology and other universities have introduced the tele-education system to 130 odd industrial establishments, including the Chollima Steel Complex and the Pyongyang Essential Foodstuff Factory.

Meanwhile, programs of Ryongnamsan, a TV channel dealing with information on nature and society for students and other people, are being steadily improved.

A great effort has also been directed to the work for putting education on an IT basis.