Japanese educative system, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, obligatory schooling, Jukus (night schools), school environment, grade repetition, high school admissions, private schools, entrance examination, universities, job prospects, financial support, inequalities, hierarchy of high schools, scholarships, part-time jobs, baccalaureate, university degrees, firms, school mapping, financial burdens, elite high schools, education system, opportunities
I would like to present you the Japanese educative system, which is a bit different from ours. Nevertheless, the base is quite the same. As you can see, children can go to kindergarten until the age of six. Then, they enter in elementary schools for six years before going to middle school until the age of 15 which represents obligatory schooling end.
[...] So, there are two types of private schools. There are private schools which admit students who are excluded of the school system because of their results or their behaviors, and there are private schools which prepared for entrance examination in one of the 25 best universities public and private of Japan. These private schools have to follow the same program of the Education Minister but they usually botch it during high school to prepare entrance examinations during the third year. [...]
[...] Indeed, for private high school, the tuitions are about 3300 euros per year and the scholarship isn't enough to cover it while students in these schools are often from modest background, except in elite high schools. Conclusion Hopefully, on 47 prefectures give a financial help to modest families and permit to theirs children to go freely in theses private high schools. However, in Japan, tuitions are not the only financial weight. In fact, families have, for example, also to pay uniforms, scholar books and other materials. All these expenses cost about 3700 euros per year and just the uniform costs 550 euros. [...]
[...] But if you succeed, you can be pretty sure to have a great job and a life relatively easy. Indeed, third year students are often contacted by firms with a job offer at the end. In less prestigious universities, students have to apply for a job in firms and are usually going to work, in the best case, in a little or medium firm. So we can say that all the Japanese educative system is built around universities which are ranked and firms which maintains this system. [...]
[...] The elite high schools have a tiny part of the students. The best is Kaisei High school because it has the best admission rate to the prestigious university of Tokyo but the tuitions are about 4300 euros per year. There is a huge gap between these high schools and the others. Just under these elite high schools in the hierarchy, public high schools have 46% of the students. They had an excellent reputation before but some town have created a school map to reduce inequalities, and families have sent their children to the private which it quite than same than in France . [...]
[...] Presentation of Japanese educative system Introduction I would like to present you the Japanese educative system which is a bit different from ours. Nevertheless, the base is quite the same. As you can see, children can go to kindergarten until the age of six. Then, they enter in elementary schools for six years before going to middle school until the age of 15 which represents obligatory schooling end. Early education and elementary school TV often shows us children who are working very hard in Jukus (night schools) but actually there is no more than 1 children out of 10 who do this. [...]
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