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JAPAN: Japan's Top Industrial and Academic Leaders Join in Effort to Stop Global Slide
04.02.2011
Japan's top university and business leaders have announced they will come together for the first time to reverse a steady slide in the country's global standing.The government-sponsored plan will focus on what corporate executives warn is a growing mismatch between the needs of industry and academe, which is damaging Japan's ability to compete abroad.
Executives from Toyota, Itochu, and 14 other leading companies will meet with the presidents of Japan's 13 best research universities, including Tokyo, Waseda, and Keio, to kick-start the as-yet-unnamed project at a conference next month.
Sponsored by the ministries of education and industry, the project will draw on a government budget of 11.2-billion yen (about $135-million) set aside this year to "globalize" the nation's universities.
In a news release, the education ministry said it was prompted into action by "fierce global competition" and the need to "foster a pool of workers with specialized skills and the ability to think creatively." Japan's largest newspaper, The Yomiuri, said the government hopes its latest strategy will snap the country out of a deep economic malaise.
The conference will meet amid growing corporate concerns in Japan about the quality of university graduates, who are shunning foreign languages and study abroad. About 67,000 Japanese students went abroad last year, a drop of 11 percent from 2009.
Universities, meanwhile, are alarmed by the rising number of graduates failing to find work: A third of all graduating students have still not been promised job offers this spring, according to the education ministry—a record high.
Some of Japan's biggest corporations, including the trading giants Mitsubishi Corporation and Marubeni, have recently mandated that new employees study abroad, particularly in the United States and China, which overtook Japan as the world's second-largest economy last year. Corporate bosses are increasingly critical of universities for not providing specialized skills.
Details of the new project have yet to be worked out, but sources say corporations will likely dispatch their own lecturers to universities, finance business and language courses, and pay students to study in other countries.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
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