La “privatisation” des universités nationales japonaises

At the same time that most European Universities are re-organising their systems so as to create a common – if not standardised – system of higher education (ECTMS, LMD/3-5-8, centres of Excellence, etc.), Japan has finalised a reform of its national universities, whose nature and scale is nothing s...

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Main Author: Christian Galan
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Les éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’Homme 2005-09-01
Series:Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cres/1294
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Summary:At the same time that most European Universities are re-organising their systems so as to create a common – if not standardised – system of higher education (ECTMS, LMD/3-5-8, centres of Excellence, etc.), Japan has finalised a reform of its national universities, whose nature and scale is nothing short of bringing to an end the higher educational system set up after the second world war. This reform, which can, in no way, be compared with that which European countries are putting into place, surprises by its radical nature and the effects it will have on education and research in the country. Having presented the origins and the broad outlines of this reform, it is our goal, in this paper, to look at the consequences and the arguments put forward to justify its implementation, as well as those put forward by its critics; points of view which throw into light, in the most striking manner, the upheavals within the higher educational systems of the industrialised world which are taking place at a world level
ISSN:1635-3544
2265-7762