Officials of schools for foreign residents urged the education ministry Friday to allow their students to take university entrance exams without having to pass a separate qualifying test.
Lin Tong Chun, chairman of the Association of Foreign Schools in Hyogo Prefecture, and Che Sung Tea, head of a pro-Pyongyang school for ethnic Koreans in Osaka, held a meeting at the ministry with Yasuko Ikenobo, the parliamentary secretary for education.
They questioned her about a newspaper report that said students of Korean, Chinese and other ethnic institutions -- but not international schools -- will continue to be barred from taking entrance examinations to national universities under a ministry plan.