Japan's education ministry is considering standardizing how colleges give course credits to adult students and certify them to help the growing number of young job-hoppers, women and retired seniors get a second employment chance, ministry officials said Tuesday.
The plan is part of the "second chance" initiative promoted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as one of the key policy initiatives of his administration.
Currently, some colleges provide original credit certificates to students who finish adult education courses, but the way they do so varies from certifying a credit for each course to doing so after a required number of courses are taken, the officials said.
The level of the courses is also diverse, with the target ranging from the general population to experts, making it difficult for outsiders to assess the degree of given credits, they said.
Against this backdrop, the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry plans to craft criteria for awarding such credits as part of the planned revision to the school education law or in its decree, the officials said.
But the envisaged regulation would not be too specific on details such as the number of required credits so as not to interfere with colleges' own initiatives, they said.
For example, the University of the Air, which delivers broadcast lectures via television and radio, requires that students get at least 20 credits after finishing compulsory subjects in giving its certificate.
Under the conventional school education law, colleges and universities, except for special cases such as medical schools, can only confer a bachelor's degree when students graduate after enrolling for four years and taking 124 credits.
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