Representatives from Japan's Meiji University visited the College Entrance Examination Center last month to ask about the feasibility of using local proficiency test scores as the basis for admitting Taiwanese students, a spokesman for the center said Friday.
Taiwan was the third stop of the Japanese delegation's trip, which also took them to South Korea and China, aimed at recruiting senior high school students with outstanding academic performances, according to the spokesman.
The university representatives tried to gain a better understanding of whether the proficiency test scores can adequately reflect students' true proficiency and can be used to simplify the Japanese university's admissions process for Taiwanese students, the spokesman said.
The scholastic aptitude test only covers the first two years of Taiwan's high school curriculum and courses. They had hoped that there was a test in Taiwan covering all the courses offered at senior high schools, the spokesman noted.
Japan, Hong Kong and China are all planning to open their universities to recruit top Taiwanese high school graduates.
Approximately 1,000 Taiwanese obtain visas to study in Japan every year, with 60 percent of them studying for a bachelor's degree there, according to statistics compiled by the Ministry of Education.
Japan presently hosts about 120,000 foreign students and launched a program last year that hopes to increase the number of foreign students in Japan to 300,000 by 2020.
Meiji University ranks among the top six universities in Tokyo, trailing only behind Tokyo University, Waseda University and Keio University.
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