September 17, 2004
Japan Hopes Program Will Foster Creativity Among Graduate Students
The Japanese education ministry plans to spend $110-million next year in hopes of turning out more-creative graduate students.
Over the past 10 years, the number of graduate students in Japan has doubled to about 230,000, a reflection of a tightening job market, the demise of lifetime employment, and corporate demands for a better-trained work force.
Many universities, however, still cling to an outdated system in which graduate students work as assistants to professors rather
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