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Parental Perceptions of University Cost, Fear of Debt, and Choice of High School in Japan
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Furuta, Kazuhisa – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
A growing number of families around the world are relying on student loans to pay for university under recent cost-sharing policies. However, it remains unclear to what extent university costs and the likelihood of needing student loans affect decisions in the early stages of education. This article examines the influence of parents' attitudes…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Mothers, Paying for College, Student Costs
Proposed Considerations to Improve Funding and Its Management in Universities of the Arabic Countries
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Yayeb, Aziza A. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Universities receive a great deal of attention by governments due to its vast importance in development and economy. Productive type of universities are the most affective in this regard as they are producers of income, research, patents, intellectual activities, and good graduates. No wonder, they are always ranked highly among international…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Finance, Income, Reputation
Review Essay: Moving beyond Global Encounters toward Global Reciprocity: Christian Education in East Asian Perspectives
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Kim, Hyun-Sook – Religious Education, 2015
Christianity as a world religion was propagated from Europe and North America to Africa and Asia. Global Christianity spread to East Asia when Robert Morrison (1782-1843) arrived in Canton, China in 1807, and later in the late 19th-century Protestant missionaries from North America arrived in Japan and Korea. This Christianity experienced a modern…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Privatization, Global Approach
A Study of Equity in Mathematics Education: Lessons from Japan for U.S. Teacher Preparation
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Furuto, Linda H. L. – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2015
This study comes at an opportune moment for Japanese and U.S. educators, policymakers, and researchers given the trends of global policy and equity-based reform. Discussions of academic achievement in both societies allow us to examine accessibility in mathematics education in order to best prepare teachers to serve the needs of students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Equal Education, Educational Change
Japanese Solutions to the Equity and Efficiency Dilemma? Secondary Schools, Inequity and the Arrival of "Universal" Higher Education
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Kariya, Takehiko – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
Any moves towards substantive equality in education must negotiate the contradictions between equality and efficiency. Equality of education comes about through both the widening of opportunity and the maintenance of educational quality, but in the context of limited resources, educational policy rarely serves both ends simultaneously. Regardless…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Education, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
Teachers' Salaries in Public Education: Between Myth and Fact
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Nir, Adam E.; Naphcha, Melly – International Journal of Educational Management, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of research is to attempt to determine to what extent the salary level of teachers working in public educational systems is connected with the trend towards privatization considering that privatization has become nowadays a prominent phenomenon in educational systems around the world. Design/methodology/approach: A secondary…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Public School Teachers, Correlation, Income