• Are we spoiling our kids with too many college options?
• Are your kids Oxbridge material?
  • Cambridge University raises bars for entry to A*AA scores in A levels
  • Handful of independent schools seize a third of Oxbridge places
• Can the virtual classroom replace college?
• Continuing education to help extend your resume during economic crisis
• Daily Telegraph on how to fund your child’s university education
• English language skills an asset for women in Japan
• Entrance exam burden growing
• Eyeing Ivy League? Straight As no guarantee
• Global recession & graduate job prospects (1)
• Harvard tries to “makeover” economically unviable image of its classics courses
• High expectations & Dragonzakura
• High school tests show rise in ability
• High stakes: The school admissions race
• Ichi-ryu daigaku: Top Ranking Universities in Japan
  • On the changing role and diversifying goals of Todai (Tokyo U.)
  • Why Japanese universities have been left behind in global rankings
  • Why University of Tokyo (Todai) is entrenched at the top of the educational hierarchy
• In the news: Tokyo U takes steps to improve administrative efficiency through its 3S project
• Interest free loans for nursing care & social welfare students
• Is College still your kid’s best option?
  • “Ivory Tower blues” and “What’s wrong with university” — books about the university institution
• Japan’s colleges facing ‘meltdown’
• Japanese universities accept the IB diploma
• Kyoto University’s COE program and Japan-Russian School of Young Mathematicians Program
• Looking for recession-proof jobs?
• Meiji University – Profile & College Scene
• More junjapa heading out for world’s top colleges these days
  • Fewer Japanese studying abroad
  • Top 20 UK universities
• News about Southern Illinois University Carbondale(SIUC)’s pullout from Japan and related links
• Nihon University
• OECD calls for reforms of J universities – but are they the right reforms?
• Osaka U. ranked no. 1 (2004) in field of robotics
• Preparing your kids
• Q & A on college entry and how the entrance exams work
  • Cram schools said the 2006 new National-Center-Tests-course of study were easier
• Quality research led teaching helps keep Russell-group of universities at the top of 2010 rankings
• Resources on university and college rankings around the world
• Role of Technical Colleges in Nurturing Students to be Engineers
• Spotlight on local Us that do early admissions
  • Meijo University’s early admissions program in the news
• Technology-based and US universities move up the global rankings
  • THE PRINCETON REVIEW’S 100 “BEST VALUE COLLEGES” FOR 2009
  • Varsity Rankings –They Don’t Tell All
• The Gaijin’s Guide to Surviving High School Entrance Exams
• The new president of Tokyo U. wants to toughen up students, says students lack overseas and volunteering experience
• The Oxbridge dilemma
• The quality of law schools in Japan under scrutiny
• The stress of entrance exams
• The trials and triumphs of educating via the local public school
• The truth about college admissions
• The University Entrance Exam Dilemma
  • 17 universities allow each other access to past entrance exam questions
• Tokyo University to increase female student ratios
• Universities add TOEIC to curriculum
• When students are no longer a uni’s top priority
• Why can’t Japanese kids get into Harvard?
• Why college?