Education System In Japan

Japan's Education System

Japan's Education system is divided into Kindergarten school, Elementary school, Junior High school, Major High School, Specialized training school, College and University. The elementary school is up to 6th grade then the high-school ends after 12th year. After High school, students can choose from Training School (specialized courses), College-Junior College or University. Higher educational institutions in Japan and the academic year runs from April to March. The semesters are divided into summer, winter and spring. The summer semester starts from late July to September and winter semester begins in late December and ends in January. The spring semester is from March to February (Lewis, pp. 77).

The cause of distortion of competition on the examination results in Japan's educationn, these eventually will not open the door to mass adoption for adoption the only time when new graduates, to change the social groups to which it belongs, the closed nature of the social groups with large companies such as Japan's central government and believed in the pure directional. Students are effectively only once in a lifetime. There is no chance to have a significant influence on the organization of this society to be able to enter the desired tissue so well, education and the acquisition of academic background, such as connector and is eager to become.

Japanese higher education system is characterized by a large private sector and a high-participation rate, where expansion has been achieved through diversification of institutional missions. From the governance perspective, Japanese higher education system has been described as a hybrid system. There are various reforms that have taken place in Japan and are characterised both by New Public Management (NPM), and post NPM trends. These trends are characterised by focus on efficiency and effectiveness, institutional leadership, competition and management (Beauchamp, pp. 13-14).

Comparison with American Education System & Challenges

The American education system and the education system in Japan are very different from each other. The first fundamental difference is that they are not common in the U.S. education system nationwide. Japan's compulsory education system which would from Hokkaido to Okinawa prefecture for six years elementary, junior high school for three years, three years are common with high school. By contrast the United States by state institutions also varies by district. For example, in Delmar, Delaware school districts eastern United States, kindergarten, senior year, five-year elementary school, middle school for three years, four years of high ...