Thoughts on student mobility: Why Japanese students are more “immobile”.

Once a Western researcher called Japan’s education system as “immobilist” (Shoppa, 1991) describing conspicuously incremental education reform processes. Now the number of Japanese university students studying abroad has been on the gradual decline since 2004, showing another kind of immobility (OEC...

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Main Author: Shuib, Munir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Higher Education Research Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2009
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/34648/
http://eprints.usm.my/34648/1/BULLETIN_13_PART_8.pdf
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Summary:Once a Western researcher called Japan’s education system as “immobilist” (Shoppa, 1991) describing conspicuously incremental education reform processes. Now the number of Japanese university students studying abroad has been on the gradual decline since 2004, showing another kind of immobility (OECD, 2008).