More effort needed to lure foreign students

[mark_15]

yomiuri To entice more top-notch students from abroad, we need to make learning in Japan more attractive to foreign students. The government's Asian Gateway plan includes a goal of tripling the number of foreign students enrolled at universities and other educational institutions in Japan--currently standing at 120,000--by the end of 2025.

The Education Rebuilding Council, for its part, proposed in its second report that Japan reshape a policy on foreign students from the viewpoint of national strategies, including industrial and diplomatic policies. In the course of the council's discussions, some called for setting a target of accepting 1 million foreign students. Read more... (http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/editorial/20070604TDY04008.htm )

[yuki101]

i have read the article and it seems optimistic for those foreign students who want to study in japan. i recently took the scholarship examination and i found it difficult for me given that i am a college graduate. i badly want to study in japan but the problem is i might not reach a certain score to be able to be as competitive as other applicants from other countries. as we all know, scholarship grantees are selected through nternational pooling in which top students from all over the world are chosen. based from accounts of an applicant last year, no filipino was able to get an undergraduate scholarship for the field of science because of extreme competition from other countries. i felt sad because i believe filipinos are bright people. our only problem is our education system... i believe we are left behind... sad!