Japanese university system faces ‘implosion’


	Japanese university system faces ‘implosion’

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/60d820cf-76f8-4cad-9904-7654796bd769/32C4CD5A-2892-4BDE-8C9A-2F50FBFA4BA7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/national/20080226page_id=3986" href="http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/national/20080226page_id=3986" style="font-size: 11px;">www.japannewsreview.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/national/20080226page_id=3986"><H1>Japanese university system faces ‘implotion’, says British researcher</H1></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/national/20080126page_id=3832" href="http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/national/20080126page_id=3832" style="font-size: 11px;">www.japannewsreview.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/national/20080126page_id=3832"><P>Between 15-40% of Japanese universities will go bankrupt or merge within the next ten years, according to a British scholar.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/national/20080126page_id=3832"><P>Roger Goodman, Japan expert at Oxford University and co-author of “Can the Japanese Change Their Education System?” claims Japanese universities will be facing an implosion “of a type not preveiously ever seen before,” in a book to be published in March, according to a Kyodo News report.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/national/20080126page_id=3832"><P>The solution for struggling universities, Goodman argues, is to look to alternative sources of income by undertaking more research projects and attracting more foreign students, for example by conducing more lectures in English and employing more foreign staff. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/national/20080126page_id=3832"><P>Goodman’s work will be published in March in “The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan.“</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/32C4CD5A-2892-4BDE-8C9A-2F50FBFA4BA7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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