{"id":23217,"date":"2019-10-02T10:33:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T10:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=23217"},"modified":"2019-10-02T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T10:33:14","slug":"japanese-universities-fall-the-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/japanese-universities-fall-the-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese universities' dismal rankings: English language could be key"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japanese universities have depicted a worrying trend as they are lagging behind their global counterparts. Jeff Kingston, D<\/b>irector of Asian studies at Temple University Japan opined that Japanese scholars have not been motivated to lay substantial emphasis on using the English language in research.\u00a0 <\/b><\/strong>
\nCould the use of the English language by Japanese scholars be the key to restore the lost glory of Japanese universities?<\/b><\/strong>
\nAccording to a recent report released by the Times Higher Education (THE) World International University Rankings, only two Japanese universities made it to the world\u2019s top two hundred (200).
\nThis was a significant drop from the 2013 rankings where five (5) of them were included in the list.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Japanese universities hindered by low internationalization<\/b><\/h2>\n

Various education experts have aired their concerns about the way Japanese universities have shown laxity on the issue of globalization.\u00a0<\/span>
\nFor instance, most of them are not innovative in the English language, and this significantly deters their international penetration.<\/b>
\nAdditionally, low university funding has been a significant challenge, and this has hindered various prospects.\u00a0<\/span>
\nTHE\u2019s international rankings are founded on five factors, namely learning environment or teaching, international outlook, research, citations, and industry income. Here is an affirmation to what we premised at the start – Japanese universities have isolated themselves by their disuse of the English language, the primary language of global business.<\/span>
\nThe citation component entails the calculation of the average number of times a specific university published work cited by global academics. Notably, it contributes to a reasonable 30% of the overall ranking.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThe citation factor has considerably thrashed Japanese universities, as many research papers are published in Japanese. The notion depicted is that the lack of English-language innovation in these institutions of higher education has been detrimental in their low international ranking.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scholars at Japanese universities not motivated<\/b><\/h2>\n

According to the director of Asian studies at Temple University Japan, Jeff Kingston, Japanese scholars have not been motivated to lay substantial emphasis on using the English language in research.\u00a0<\/b>
\nAdditionally, research was an issue that was not highly prioritized in Japanese universities because it started being regarded in the late 1990s.\u00a0<\/span>
\nNevertheless, the Japanese administration, through its Prime Minister <\/span>Shinzo Abe<\/span><\/a>, has been making various education reforms. For instance, a 7.7 billion yen or US$982 million fund was created for local universities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nMoreover, <\/span>on September 20, <\/span>ninety-seven 97 % of Japan\u2019s junior colleges and universities<\/span><\/a> were permitted by the nation\u2019s education ministry to avail free education programs for students from low-income households.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japanese universities have depicted a worrying trend as they are lagging behind their global counterparts. Jeff Kingston, Director of Asian studies at Temple University Japan opined that Japanese scholars have not been motivated to lay substantial emphasis on using the English language in research.\u00a0 Could the use of the English language by Japanese scholars be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":23218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}