Many nations within the Global South are more and more keen about Japan-style “colleges of technology,” five-year establishments that provide a sensible curriculum to foster technical professionals.

Educators in these rising and growing nations see the system as a super solution to develop human assets and break free from an industrial construction closely centered on easy labor. The Japanese authorities can also be prepared to assist them by dispatching lecturers and offering information.

Colleges of expertise have been established as establishments of upper training in 1962 throughout Japan’s excessive financial progress interval, with the purpose of coaching mid-level engineers. Students enroll after graduating from junior highschool and examine for 5 years to amass specialised abilities and information.

Currently, there are 58 such schools nationwide, of which 51 are nationwide faculties.

Since 2014, the system has been launched in Mongolia, Thailand and Vietnam as “kosen” (an abbreviation of the Japanese time period for schools of expertise), in line with the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry. Japan has supported these nations by dispatching lecturers and serving to create curriculums.

Government officers in Egypt and Uzbekistan have additionally visited Japan to look at such schools and requested Japan’s assist for adopting the kosen system of their nations.

In an effort to shift from labor-intensive to superior technological industries, these nations are striving to ascertain instructional methods that may play a task in growing human assets. As a part of such efforts, they’ve seemed to the kosen system, which contributed to producing the human assets who supported Japan’s speedy financial progress.

In mild of this growth, the Japanese authorities included a coverage to globally promote schools of expertise and Japanese-style training in its Basic Policy on Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform, which was accredited by the Cabinet in June.

On Wednesday, the Liberal Democratic Party’s Policy Research Council Chairperson Koichi Hagiuda visited the faculty of expertise connected to King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in Bangkok, the place a analysis presentation was held.

“The camera of an AGV [automated guided vehicle] recognizes an arrow and changes the direction of travel,” stated a fifth-year male pupil who operated a robotic by way of laptop in entrance of Hagiuda. The robotic quickly proceeded alongside a delegated route and stopped in entrance of an impediment.

“The kosen system is highly acclaimed in many countries as an institution for fostering human resources who will lead the next generation,” stated Hagiuda, who promoted assist for the faculty when he served as training minister.

He additionally expressed his intention to strengthen cooperation between abroad schools of expertise and Japanese firms, amongst different entities.

Colleges of expertise in different nations can present human assets for Japanese firms which have established operations there. About 400 college students have to this point graduated from three such schools that opened in Mongolia in 2014, and greater than 70 of them have obtained jobs in Japan.

The schools that opened in Thailand and Vietnam in 2019 and 2020 additionally see profession alternatives at Japanese firms as future choices for his or her college students.