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Pyongyang University of Education No. 2, whose mission is to train reserve teachers for the secondary education sector in the capital city, was modernly built and inaugurated on October 2.

Covering an area of over 86 000 square metres, the university has main buildings, including a school building, a practical education hall, an e-library and a gymnasium, several auxiliary buildings and a large playground.

The 12-storeyed school building has more than 40 special classrooms, practical training rooms, teaching method rooms, circular e-lecture rooms, lecture rooms in tiers and a teaching control room and every classroom is equipped with a full set of advanced educational facilities and school fixtures.

The school building has a globular astronomical observatory on the roof.

The interior of the three-storeyed practical education hall looks larger and wider than the actual size as it has open-type labs around a pierced hall.

Pu Myong Jin, head of the hall, said that the hall is a comprehensive practical education base with labs and research and study rooms for 16 subjects, which are conducive to improving the practical application abilities and pedagogical qualifications of students, including the physical, chemical and electrical engineering labs, vehicle driving practice room and robot education research room.

The hall is equipped with more than 3 800 modern facilities of nearly 300 kinds for experiments, practical training and analysis. 

It also has an exhibition room where teaching aids made by students themselves are on display.

The teaching aids give a glimpse into students’ deep understanding of their majors and the education programme for the field of general education and their practical application abilities and pedagogical qualifications.

On the opposite side of the practical education hall there is the e-library of a unique style. 

With an e-reading room, a book-lending room, a national network browsing room and an academic exchange room, the library houses over 130 000 books necessary for teachers, researchers and students.

And it has 50 million pieces of domestic and foreign latest sci-tech e-data including videos.

All the interior spaces of the e-library, where TVs connected with wireless network adapters, various visual aids and models are set up, and the outdoor study site on its roof provide students with convenient environments for study.

Behind the school building there is the gymnasium.

The gymnasium is designed to host a variety of meetings and art performances as well as different sports games including those of basketball, volleyball and table tennis, and different rooms for teaching and training according to sports events such as Taekwon-Do and artistic gymnastics are fully equipped with various sports apparatuses.

On the basement of the gymnasium there is a swimming pool.

The playground covered with artificial turf has basketball and volleyball courts and a track and field course, and the terraces.

Attractive is the dormitory of the university.

The ground floor of the dormitory has a clinic and such welfare facilities as a bath, barber’s, beauty parlour, clothes repair shop and shop and every other floor has rooms with adequate conditions for study and rest around a hall where boarding students can enjoy a cultural and emotional life like watching TV.