An Education Rebuilding Council subcommittee agreed Wednesday on a plan to accept more foreign students into universities and graduate schools in Japan, and to set a target figure of 1 million such students by 2025.
The No. 3 subcommittee plans to include these proposals in its second report to be compiled in May.
Members of the subcommittee, which is tasked with internationalizing higher education, met in the morning at the Prime Minister's Office.
They reached a basic agreement to recommend:
-- Introduction of a unified Japanese-language examination for foreign students wishing to go on to higher education in Japan.
-- Expansion of the scholarship system to encourage foreign students to choose Japan as a place of study.
-- Letting foreign students start the academic year in September, the beginning of the academic year in most overseas countries.
-- Having more classes held in English.
-- Adopting a more flexible credit-transfer system.
(Apr. 19, 2007)
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070419TDY03011.htm
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