Wednesday 26 November 2003
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Inside the Higher Education Institution in Japan: Responding to Change and Reforms
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
The final seminar in the series looked at the significant changes that are taking place in higher education inJapan. This included discussions on the ongoing changes of higher education in relation to internal and external change factors/pressure (including matters relating to examinations and entrance to higher education institutions); the globalisation, regionalisation and internationalisation of higher education with special reference to Japan; and the role of the professoriate within the organizational culture of a Japanese college.
About the contributors
Yoko Tsuruta
Yoko Tsuruta is a Dphil candidate in the Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford. Previously, Ms Tsuruta was a chief administrator for international exchange at Waseda University, Tokyo. She studied intercultural communication at International Christian University, educational psychology at Yokohama National University Graduate School and then comparative and international education at Oxford. Ms Tsuruta is particularly interested in the globalisation, regionalisation and internationalisation of higher education.
Greg Poole
Greg Poole is working on the ethnography of higher education in Japan while pursuing a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford. Mr Poole graduated from Brown University in anthropology subsequently studied linguistics at the University of Surrey and Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield. He first went to Japan in 1986 as part of the Monbusho English Fellow (MEF) Programme and has since held numerous positions as instructor, tutor, and lecturer at both Japanese and British universities.
Dr Christopher Hood
Dr Christopher Hood (chair) is Director of the Cardiff Japanese Studies Centre, Cardiff University and an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Dr Hood graduated from Sheffield University in Business Studies and Japanese and taught for one year in Japan on the JET Programme. He returned to Sheffield for his PhD on Nakasone Yasuhiro and Japanese education reform, which was published in 2001 by Routledge (‘Japanese Education Reform: Nakasone’s Legacy’). He is co-editor of ‘Doing Business with the Japanese’, published in 2003 and is currently conducting research on the shinkansen (‘bullet train’) for his forthcoming book, ‘Shinkansen – From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan’, to be published by RoutledgeCurzon in 2005.