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Christian Galan, an expert on the Japanese education system, explains in an op-ed for Le Monde that less time in school does not necessarily mean more freedom or equality for children, when private, ...
News Japan » Education: Japan school achievement test flags gaps in proportional reasoning and reading
The annual national assessment of academic ability and learning was conducted in April and May, administered to sixth-grade elementary and third-year junior high school students.
News Japan » Education: Japan spends half the OECD average on higher education
Japanese government spending on tertiary education, such as universities, is only 54 percent of the average among member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, ...
News Japan » Education: Japan Education: Global Groundbreakers
A nation respectful of centuries-old traditions, Japan is also the well-spring of the world’s future. The high-speed train, the Walkman and humanoid robots are just a few Japanese inventions that have ...
News Japan » Education: Perspectives on Special Education in Japan
This past fall I was part of a group of educators who were awarded fellowships to travel to Japan and learn about the country’s education system. During my three-week stay in Tokyo and the southern ...
News Japan » Education: How Global Competence Has Boosted Japan's Education System
Shinichi Yamanaka was a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Education at Asia Society in summer 2017. Yamanaka is the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Bulgaria (2015–2016) ...
News Japan » Education: Japan’s “education reform” to indoctrinate nationalism
The Japanese government has pushed through controversial changes to the country’s education law, winding back the clock to the state indoctrination that characterised the militarist regimes of the ...
News Japan » Education: Using Education to Make Japan Great Again?
Professor Yuki Honda, a sociologist at University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Education, is concerned about the rise of state-sponsored authoritarianism within Japan’s compulsory education system.