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Kochi city creates lucky charms with fragments of bridge that survived near collapse
Kochi Prefecture's western city of Shimanto has created a good luck charm containing a fragment of a low-water crossing that has withstood the risk of collapse, intended for students wishing for success in upcoming entrance exams. The aging condition of the Iwama low-water crossing, a ...
A prominent medical university in Tokyo, which recently admitted setting a higher bar for female applicants to pass entrance exams, is now being criticized for the reasons it has given for its gender discrimination. Juntendo University, which received the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's top award this ...
Nihon University admits nepotism in entrance exams
Nihon University revealed that in the past two years it gave preference to 10 applicants whose parents had graduated from its medical school, at the expense of other students.
Juntendo University treated applicants, mostly women, unfairly during its medical school's entrance examinations during the 2017 and 2018 academic years, a report by a third-party committee confirmed Monday. The committee, headed by lawyer Keisuke Yoshioka, said in its primary report that the university has "improperly ...
Juntendo University and Showa University are suspected of rigging the results of entrance examinations for their respective medical faculties in the same way Tokyo Medical University did, informed sources said Saturday. Juntendo and Showa, both in Tokyo, are believed to have applied different test judgment ...
More medical schools were found to have disadvantaged female applicants in their entrance exams, in a survey taken after the discovery that a Tokyo medical university had manipulated test scores to curb female enrollment, education minister Masahiko Shibayama said Friday. Shibayama told a news conference ...
A support group for those subject to discrimination through Tokyo Medical University's admissions policies, which favored male students, said Monday it had requested that the university's third-party investigation release the scores of students who took the exams and want to know their scores. "The first ...
More men pass entrance exams than women at 80% of Japan's medical schools: survey
The government released preliminary results of a survey on medical school entrance exams in the wake of a prestigious university admitting it lowered the scores of women to curb their enrollment.
Trial run of English pretests for new university entrance exams begins
A trial run began Tuesday for English pretests for the new unified examination system for university entrance, set to be introduced in fiscal 2020. About 6,700 second-year students at 158 high schools across the country are expected to take the pretests, which will be conducted ...
More of Japan's junior high schools include English in entrance exams
More and more private junior high schools in the Tokyo metropolitan area and the Kansai region are introducing English into their general entrance examinations. Parents are also showing great interest in the subject, reflecting progress in globalization and anticipated changes in the question format on ...
The education ministry's effort to reform the university entrance exam system has serious flaws.
College entrance exams fail to make the grade
Before Japan's Central Council for Education undertakes the formidable task of revising Japan's university entrance exam, it needs to understand why such exams, both here and in the U.S., fail to make the grade.
