DPRK: Bringing Up Personnel Talented in Theory and Practice

The Phyongsong University of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry has produced many inventors and winners of the scientific research prize. It is attributable to the devoted efforts made by teachers of the university.

The university is putting emphasis on bringing all the students to be personnel talented both in theory and practice, in keeping with its mission as a hub of training talents in the field of veterinary science and animal husbandry. The main method of improving the cognitive faculty of students is to combine the contents of basic subjects with specialized training.

For example, in teaching mathematics a large proportion is occupied by teaching the amounts of daily feeding of animals, the ensuring of relevant mineral contents, and business management directed to maximizing the production of fodder grass. It encourages the students to learn developing programs for measuring the amount of assorted feed, supporting diagnosis and treatment of animal diseases and others. As a result, the students’ zeal for studying basic and specialized subjects leads to their improved scholastic attainments.

Observation of animals is also one of the major teaching processes. The animal shed with scores of animals like deer, musk deer and pheasant provides a good space for the students to constantly improve their application abilities. The university has a veterinary clinical demonstration laboratory, a laboratory for analyzing the general contents of assorted feed, hatching practice laboratory, several other laboratories and a general practice room where all elements are put on a scientific, practical and modern footing so that the students can learn the overall development of animal husbandry in the country. Here the students read scientific and technical data materials related with raising animals and conduct different experiments and practices, consolidating the knowledge they have learned.

Many teachers have become Model Teachers and won certificates of registration of new teaching methods by developing and introducing superior teaching methods with the students’ abilities improving. Thanks to the teachers’ devoted efforts, the university has achieved great successes. From 2012 the students from the university have ranked among the top three at the national university students’ programming contest each year, and won silver prize at the 41st ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest Pyongyang Site 2016 in November 2016. In recent years the university has been estimated highly at the national sci-tech festivals, and won a prize at the 2nd national university students’ online mathematics contest.

The students of the university are striving to contribute to the economic development of the country and the improvement of the people’s living standards.