NO!!

There Are More Imoportant Things Than Grades

By O Hyeon-jin
Senior,
Department of
Mechanical &
Metallurgical
Engineering Education
   Recently I registered in some program and learned analysis method in scientific way with statistic manner. The thing that impressed me a lot was that there is a relationship with cause and result, and that correlation could be described as the function of X.
   In this case, I think the problem is that ‘what would be the end-result from successful university life.’ If we define good record in designated semester as a goal for university student, definitely the record certification covered with A+ should be a factor that distinguish student who perform university life successfully. However, I want to ask you who stand against that what is the good university life, what can be attained from new environment where vigor, energy creativity brim over? Is this just knowledge written on the book? As all of you think, something that cannot be measured by the tool that human has developed is university life and student. Sometime they make a mistake or just hang around with drunken state. Nevertheless that time is only allowed to be just free from the pressure from depress student. I am also a person who considers good record as proof of good performance on university life, but there is something more than that, I believe. Thus I am against the rule that grant scholarship according to the score grade.


National Scholarship Should Focus on Fundamental Goal

By Seo Min-won
Senior,
Department of
English Literature
   According to National Assembly Budget Office, 74.7% of low-income group students could not get the national scholarship, because their GPA was not good enough. It means that the person who should have gotten the scholarship did not get it. In the current national scholarship system, your GPA should be above 3.0 to be eligible for the national scholarship. The problem is that most of university students whose families are belong to low-income group cannot easily get 3.0, because they have to earn their living by themselves. As we all know, our country’s minimum wage is a pittance, so they have to work more than 20 hours per week to earn a living. It means there will be lesser time for those students to study alone. For that reason it is much harder for them to get a good grade than ordinary students. It is quite ironic, because the main reason we adopted the national scholarship system was to give those students equal opportunity. With current system, we are not giving them equal opportunity.
   I am not saying that every student should get a scholarship. I know that we have limited resources, so it would be wise to allocate the money to the person who needs it sincerely. There might be people who insist that it is reverse discrimination on the students who get better grade, but the grade-based scholarship already exist for those students in every single university. The purpose of the national scholarship is not to reward the person who get good grade, but to help the students who need it. We should never forget that.

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