In this regard, KCNA had an interview with Kim Il Nam, rector of the Tele-education College under Kim Chaek University of Technology.

Q: Would you like to tell me about the operation of the college?

A: The first students of the college were workers of the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex.

Now the college gives lectures to 150 odd industrial establishments, including the Pyongyang Thermal Power Complex and the Pyongyang Essential Foodstuff Factory.

Q: Please tell me about the school subjects and years. And who can study at the college?

A; The college has 20 subjects, including mechanical and metal engineering.

The five-year college accepts hands-on workers, engineers, management officials and disabled persons.

Q: I want to know how the teaching is going on at the college. Can you tell me about it?

A: All of its teaching is heuristic.

Students understand over 80 percent of what they are taught. They can get repeated lectures from the college's teachers on video.

In a word, the tele-education system meets the demand of people for getting more knowledge with the changes of the times.