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The number of worker students is increasing in the DPRK, where everybody can study to their heart’s content.

Pyongyang College of Technology is an institution for training the working people of various industrial establishments in Pyongyang including the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill as practical technical personnel. The college has a long history and is provided with excellent educational conditions and environment including multi-functional classrooms and laboratories and practice rooms equipped with modern experimental facilities and instruments. And all teachers are academic degree or title holders.

Many working people are now acquiring wide knowledge in the study-while-you-work system.

According to a college official, many working people in factories and enterprises in the municipality have entered the college and started learning this year, too, with the number of students increasing year after year. He said that the students were very enthusiastic about their studies.

Officials of the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill widely encourage the employees to enter the college. A worker student said that there were many inventors who worked with him, and among them were machine operators and factory technicians. He added that everyone in the factory wants to study at the universities or colleges as they know that only when they have profound knowledge, can they become innovators.

Kim Chol Man, a worker of the silk-spinning general workshop of the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill, was awarded a certificate of invention during his college days. After working in daytime to be well versed in the machines at the workplace, he acquired scientific and technological knowledge at the college. In the course of this, he raised the level of knowledge and made a valuable invention for the production of school uniforms.

"It is really good to study at the factory college, where education and production, theory and practice are closely linked with each other. In the educational system, under which everyone can learn to my heart’s content while working, they can become a master of invention if they are determined to do so," he said.

There are many housewives among the students of Pyongyang College of Technology.

It is their unanimous desire to make contributions to the prosperity and development of the country by studying hard like Ri Myong Sun, labour innovator well- known to the whole country. The discharged soldier students are more ambitious, as they want to enroll in the online education course of other universities after finishing the college course.

Seeing the freshmen enter the college campus full of hope and excitement, irrespective of age, occupation and career, the lecturers of the college visualize their future as talented technical personnel, labour innovators and knowledge-based working people.