Abenomics and world-class higher education ambition

By Jeremy Rappleye. Last May, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe boldly declared that “within the next three years, eight national universities will hire 1,500 leading researchers from around the world”. Recruiting foreign faculty would be the first step in a prodigious push to place 10 Japanese universities among the world’s top 100 over the next decade. Read more...