Becoming a teacher needed having a good powerful friend?

Plenty of examinations anywhere around in Japan. I found an interesting one that would indicate how better you can check train's connections by official time table. People seem to love being certificated even by a joke-like exam.

Becoming a school teacher in Japan first requires receiving lessons of teaching subject(s) and of education theory and practice, mostly offered by universities. The graduates generally need to take at least one examination at the prefectural level. The examination results are judged by the prefectural education board to check the candidates pass the necessary level of knowledge. Some cities give more importance to their personality than their scores.

Here is bad news: some teachers did not pass the required score at the examination but were able to make it, according to media, because their "friend(s)" were influential to the personnel affairs of these boards. Money must have talked, and threat within the boards was pointed out. 

cannot conclude this post with no idea.

40% of family can not pay tuition

Osaka faces a severe budget problem, and its governor completely downsizes the waste of public service.

A school teacher in Osaka told that four out of ten families request for the subsidy for schooling their children at upper secondary level. (Japan's compulsory public schooling, ISCED 1&2, are free)

Osaka is now the center of financial difficulty both at the public and private levels.

Ageing Japan

75 year-old or above share 10.04% of the Japanese population as of March 2008.

The Japanese average life expectancy hits the highest, opened on July 31, 2008: 85.99 years old for women and 79.19 for men. The Japanese women live longest on the globe.

Women: Japan 85.99; Hong Kong 85.4; France 84.1

Men: Iceland 79.4; Hong Kong 79.3; Japan 79.19

More doc!

MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) of Japan announced on August 5 that the total enrollment number of medical department of all the Japanese universities will be increased up to 8,280 in 2009, which is 500 more than 7,793 in 2008. 

The Japanese youth tend to avoid being a doctor because the job is tough and takes risk of human lives. When a medical mistake happens, media and the public become absolutely critical. 

Olympic Game in Tokyo

Beijing Olympic is coming up. I hope the participating athletes will have no problems during their play and stay.

Tokyo has presented bids for the 2016 game.

Well, I hope the infrastructure will work out in 2016. Some of Tokyo subway and railway for commuters suddenly stops when abnormal weather conditions influence. Heavy rain stops some local train. Summer heat stops the subway and Yamanote line (see Ref.). Nobody can move an inch in the train even in normal rush hour...

Ref.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamanote_Line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IcV3wnxc3g

Why not use bus or car?

Nah, Tokyo is the biggest train-based metropolitan in the world. Dont expect bus or vehicle bring you home.

Still wanna try here for the game? Yes, it would be the real life game.

Education for Muslims in Japan

The Japanese society is one of the most homogeneous at the national level. Minorities living here encounter daily problems and have educational needs for their own identity.

Maruyama (2007) writes the common problems in schooling among Muslims in Japan and points out the importance of key persons such as the Japanese who experienced out of Japan because they could share the student's views.

http://www.shingetsuinstitute.com/Maruyama1F.pdf

Maruyama, H. (2007). Diversity as Advantage in "Homogeneous" Society: Educational Environment for Muslim in Japan, Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations, 1, 57-78.

Half of Japanese Univ to Bankrupt

Hot news on tertiary school today here is future pandemic bankruptcy of higher education.

According to survey conducted by the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan (http://www.shigaku.go.jp/) about the fullfilmwent of school capacity, 47.1% (7.4 higher than last year) of private universities fall below the quota of new students. The survey covered 565 universities out of total 573 in Japan. Those below the quota were 266 and 29 fulfilled below 50% of the capacity. Many unpopular universities seem to be located not in urban areas but local cities.

The biggest cause is the population decline. It is evident that school education shift its quality from quantity as the expantion of standard curricular across country.

Their survival race has really started .

Foreign Language Educaiton at Elementary School in Japan

Foreign Language Education at Elementary School will officially start in 2011.
The government has announced the course of study on it.
But it is not easy to understand it for me.
I cannot imagine how the lesson should go at the moment.
It is very challenging to create new things.