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
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Published: National Higher Education Research Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2009
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spelling usm-346482017-05-26T07:41:17Z http://eprints.usm.my/34648/ Thoughts on student mobility: Why Japanese students are more “immobile”. Shuib, Munir LB2300 Higher Education 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). National Higher Education Research Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2009-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/34648/1/BULLETIN_13_PART_8.pdf Shuib, Munir (2009) Thoughts on student mobility: Why Japanese students are more “immobile”. Bulletin of Higher Education Research. pp. 22-28. ISSN 1675-6428
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Shuib, Munir
Thoughts on student mobility: Why Japanese students are more “immobile”.
title Thoughts on student mobility: Why Japanese students are more “immobile”.
title_full Thoughts on student mobility: Why Japanese students are more “immobile”.
title_fullStr Thoughts on student mobility: Why Japanese students are more “immobile”.
title_full_unstemmed Thoughts on student mobility: Why Japanese students are more “immobile”.
title_short Thoughts on student mobility: Why Japanese students are more “immobile”.
title_sort thoughts on student mobility: why japanese students are more “immobile”.
topic LB2300 Higher Education
url http://eprints.usm.my/34648/
http://eprints.usm.my/34648/1/BULLETIN_13_PART_8.pdf