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...dearth of courses taught in English, the lingua franca of international education and commerce. "Japan's schools are third-rate by international standards," says Robert Dujarric, director of Temple University's Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies. In the 2007 Times Higher Education Supplement, an influential U.K.-based annual survey of universities all over the world, only four Japanese universities ranked in the top 100, compared with 37 from the U.S. and 19 from the U.K. "If your aim is a Nobel Prize in chemistry," Dujarric says, "you don't come to Japan...
...Most departments have no idea what student parents are doing,” said presenter Karen M. Ruff, referencing the motivations for the study. “The students don’t tell them; the departments don’t survey them...
...survey found that many students remain unaware of this ‘G-clock’ rule and most departments don’t apply it automatically...
...survey of 101 student parents—approximately 40 percent of graduate student parents—said 40 percent of student mothers lacked health insurance and 50 percent saw their stipends lapse while on leave...
...report said the survey remained valid, despite the low response rate, because respondent data matched data for the overall student parent population provided by GSAS administrators...