School, government encouraging teens to study abroad

By Mayumi Ujioka. One of Tokyo’s top high schools will offer extracurricular classes in English from next year for students who want to study abroad, part of the rekindled interest in Japan for higher education in foreign countries.
Nezu Educational Foundation in Nerima Ward, which runs Musashi Senior and Junior High School, will offer the night classes for 120 students--twice a week for junior high school students and three times a week for senior high school students from September to next June.
The school dubbed the course the “RED Program,” with R standing for voluntary research, E for writing essays and D for debate.
“Amid the age of globalization, we want students to have options overseas. We want to nurture human resources who can play an active role as international citizens in the future,” a school official said.
According to Musashi, the classes will focus on science, including Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, the strategy of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs and the experiments of Galileo Galilei. Read more...