The Japanese government aims to enhance the international competitiveness of its higher education system. Universities, junior colleges, and other professional schools are expected to be able to accept more international students starting next fiscal year. However, the topic of international students is becoming an increasingly contentious issue in Japan. Some of Japan’s non-competitive, for-profit universities […]
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Amid growing global skepticism toward “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), Japanese universities are rapidly embracing surprisingly radical DEI measures. In Japan’s university admissions, admission quotas for females (Joshi-waku, literally “Girls’ Quotas”) grant eligibility exclusively to women and are being introduced successively in highly competitive STEM programs. Both national and private institutions employ this scheme. Typically, […]
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The year is 1901, and the British Empire rules the waves. The small island nation’s maritime empire crisscrosses the globe, governing over twenty-five percent of the world’s population. As a blue power, Britain’s national strategy is to protect its trade networks, ensure freedom of navigation for its merchants, maintain the balance of power in Europe, […]
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