Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- The educational level of all rural schools in the DPRK has risen into a higher stage.

The Ministry of Education set the standards to be reached by rural schools and dispatched officials to encourage them to conduct the work for improving the qualification of local officials and the educational level.

It also generalized the experience gained by the central teaching institute which set a model in raising the educational level of rural schools, and directed efforts to enhancing the role of the training institutes at all levels.

Teachers' retraining institutes in cities and counties made efforts to raise the qualifications of teachers at rural schools to the level of urban schools.

Tens of thousands of teachers at rural schools have improved their qualifications and abilities this year.

The ministry has pushed ahead with the work to generalize over 1 500 kinds of teaching videos produced by competent teachers so that the city's good teaching resources can be transferred to rural schools.

Meanwhile, the work is going on to provide practical educational conditions and environment for rural schools with the help of the whole society. -0-