Brief Japan the United States and the adjustment of norms of higher education compared hierarchy.doc

Brief Japan the United States and the adjustment of norms of higher education compared hierarchy First, the hierarchical structure of higher education and adjustment of the Japanese specification Hierarchical structure of higher education in Japan is divided into undergraduate, graduate, specialist three levels. At the undergraduate level, 1877 (Meiji 10) was formed in the undergraduate college - University of Tokyo, is Japan a sign of modern higher education started. Around this time, Japan also appeared in a number of lower level private college College to 1885, over 102 such schools, most of which later developed into a full university, but they are not the higher professional education was the predecessor of .1886, the Japanese government “Promulgated” Empire University of Ordergt;gt;, change the University of Tokyo as the “Tokyo Imperial University,” .1918, Japan developed a new University fork orders and higher orders, established a number equivalent to the National College and the official status of private schools. Japan previous higher education reform, particularly in teaching , are to focus on undergraduate education in Japan is an important social, not just the pursuit of highly educated young people, and more attention to the school’s reputation, professional counter in the second, who is as hard, nor is the key issue, Dr. .2 o the 90’s, As Japan entered the Popularization of Higher Education (University Human Study 1992 was 39%), while the University of school-age youth are declining number of university operations into the so-called “ice age”, all colleges and universities for the students fierce competition, but also for more young people to enter the stage of undergraduate education has created more favorable conditions. In addition, the Japanese public that, according to American-style two-year training in basic general education plus two years of undergraduate education model, we can not train expertise to work independently, be difficult to