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Due to the decline of 18-years-old population, 90.5 % of applicants were entered to universities and junior colleges in 2007. Less prestigious universities and colleges have faced the difficulties in recruiting qualified applicants, and were forced to admit those unprepared applicants for college education. Japanese academics accepted reluctantly the deterioration of quality in which the required levels for quality of college entrance proved to be failed. However, they stressed research function more than education and social service function. Japanese academics tended to view themselves to be researchers, acknowledged the poor “scholarship of integration”. The academics of national universities had evaluated any changes to the corporation as negatively, and were afraid of the future prospects.
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Yamasaki, H. (2015). Higher Education and Society. In: Arimoto, A., Cummings, W., Huang, F., Shin, J. (eds) The Changing Academic Profession in Japan. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09468-7_14
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