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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Educators have a phrase for this phenomenon: daigaku zennyu jidai, which literally means "an age when all are accepted to college." Big schools such as Tokyo University, which receives 40% of its funding from the government, are trying to goose head count by establishing more graduate schools and by adding postgraduate courses for working professionals and retirees. Smaller, underfunded colleges must take more drastic action. For example, Osaka University and Osaka University of Foreign Studies merged in October; two other Osaka schools - Kwansei Gakuin University and Seiwa College, both of which have been around for more than a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Class Dismissed | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

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