'Aiming to Train Core Talent in Secondary Batteries
School Name Also Changed to Hydrogen Energy School'
Jeonbuk High-Tech High School (Principal Song Hyun-jin), which has been promoting its transition to a Hydrogen Energy High School starting from the 2025 academic year, and the Korea Battery Industry Association (Chairman Kim Dong-myung) announced on the 24th that they have signed a business agreement to cultivate core talents who will lead the Saemangeum secondary battery specialized complex.
According to the Jeonbuk Office of Education, the signing ceremony was held at the headquarters of the Korea Battery Industry Association in Seoul, with key officials from both organizations, including Principal Song Hyun-jin of Jeonbuk High-Tech High School and Vice Chairman Park Tae-sung, in attendance.
On the 24th, a business cooperation agreement ceremony was held between Hydrogen Energy High School and the Korea Battery Industry Association. [Photo by Jeonbuk Office of Education]
Through this agreement, both parties agreed to mutually cooperate in fostering local talents in the secondary battery sector by ▲discovering and developing leading educational models for cultivating regionally settled talents in the battery field ▲cooperating on career special lectures and employment special lectures for career choices ▲establishing a cooperative system for professional manpower training ▲joint use of facilities and equipment support and mutual cooperation to improve local settlement conditions.
In particular, they will operate and develop an education curriculum based on smart factories. The plan is to run an optimized corporate education curriculum according to the manpower demand of companies residing in the Saemangeum secondary battery specialized complex, cultivating core talents in secondary batteries who will settle and continue working locally without leaving the region. This will help stabilize corporate operations and promote new win-win cooperation between the school and the association.
Meanwhile, Jeonbuk High-Tech High School, selected as a Jeonbuk Glocal Specialized High School policy project in 2023, will close its existing departments and reopen as the tentatively named Hydrogen Energy High School. Two new departments will be established: ▲Hydrogen Convergence Department (Hydrogen Industry) and ▲Energy Convergence Department (Secondary Battery, Energy), recruiting 72 new students starting from the 2025 academic year.
Additionally, to inform about the school's changes, an admission briefing session will be held on the 26th with Wanju-gun and companies with employment agreements, providing students and parents with the current vision of the school.
Principal Song Hyun-jin stated, "Although the school name is 'Hydrogen Energy High School,' the curriculum aims to cultivate core talents in the national strategic industries of the hydrogen industry and secondary batteries," adding, "We have secured numerous employment opportunities in the hydrogen and battery sectors comparable to Meister High Schools and have introduced university admission solutions."
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