A panel to discuss the establishment of universities and school corporations recommended Tuesday that Education, Science and Technology Minister Kisaburo Tokai accept 19 universities' requests to establish teacher-training graduate schools in April next year.
The panel's recommendation is considered to be certain to be accepted.
Twenty-one institutions initially requested permission to establish a graduate school, but two of them withdrew their requests due to "changes in the plan."
Although 19 graduate schools are to be launched, the panel urged all of them to improve their curriculums and operational plans.
Against the backdrop of eroding public trust in teachers due to an increasing number who lack appropriate skills, the teacher-training graduate schools are being introduced with great expectations, in the hopes of developing competent teachers for primary, middle and high schools. However, the start may not be so promising.
The graduate schools will provide two-year curriculums, under which students are to master practical areas of expertise, such as teaching methods and school management.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20071128TDY02301.htm
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