World Bank scales back Xinjiang school project in China over human rights concerns
The World Bank announced Monday it was cutting back a vocational education project in China's Xinjiang province, even though an internal investigation did not back up claims the program was linked to the mistreatment of minority Muslim Uighurs. The Washington-based development lender launched a review ...
Japan to go ahead with using descriptive questions in university entrance exams from 2020
Japan will carry out plans to introduce descriptive questions for Japanese and mathematics subjects under a new unified university entrance examination system starting in fiscal 2020, education minister Koichi Hagiuda said. "We will work to create a good exam that is easy to score," Hagiuda ...
Japan school boards start to rethink 'black rules' on everything from underwear to protesting
Japan’s teaching culture prizes conformity and docility, but the public is apparently getting fed up with the suffocating rules imposed to achieve that.
On World Tsunami Day, Japanese high school students at U.N. share lessons learned from disasters
Two Japanese high school students stressed on Tuesday the importance of sharing lessons learned from past disasters at a panel discussion to mark World Tsunami Awareness Day, held at the U.N. headquarters in New York. The two students from Sapporo, who experienced a powerful earthquake ...
Japanese early education staff feel least valued among eight OECD nations, survey finds
Early childhood education staff in Japan feel the least valued in society by children and parents among eight member countries of the OECD, according to a 2018 survey by the organization. The report, "Providing Quality Early Childhood Education and Care," released Friday by the Paris-based ...
More effective ways must be found to hold bullies accountable and protect victims.
Children in Miyagi and Fukushima were happy to see each other and have a degree of normalcy restored to their lives.
Bullying in Japan's schools surged nearly a third to record high in 2018
The record high number of cases was credited to a greater effort by teachers to report bullies nationwide, the education ministry survey said.
Kobe teacher accused of bullying colleagues also incited students to create chaos, principal says
One of four teachers accused of bullying their colleagues at an elementary school in Kobe also encouraged pupils to defy authority and create chaos in class, the principal of the school said Wednesday, citing one of the bullying victims. Miki Nio said at a news ...
Free preschool education raises concerns over run on nurseries
The Oct. 1 start of a government program making preschool education free of charge has raised concerns about a possible increase in children waiting to be accepted into nurseries. The program covers children age 3 to 5 as well as those up to 2 years ...
Too many foreign children are missing out on school in Japan, and the problem is only going to get worse as more immigrants enter the country.
Kobe elementary school embroiled in bullying scandal as teachers turn on one of their own
Four teachers at an elementary school in Kobe have been removed from their positions and are facing further disciplinary action for allegedly rubbing hot soup into the eyes of a colleague and forcing him to drink alcohol, among other acts. A teacher in his 20s ...
