In order to resolve the serious shortage of teachers, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has been considering exempting those who have entered the teaching profession from returning their scholarships. We have decided to implement this policy starting from those who pass the recruitment exam.
Concerning the exemption of teachers from returning scholarships, the expected effects and targets have been under discussion at a subcommittee of the Central Council for Education since December last year, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has recently compiled a concrete policy proposal. Ta.
In order to deal with the teacher shortage, it is important to improve both the quality and quantity of the teaching profession and increase the number of applicants. Although the focus is on those who have completed teaching graduate schools with high academic standards, it also includes those who have completed practical training in schools at graduate schools other than teaching graduate schools.
The system states that the system should be applied from the recruitment exam in the new academic year, and if you pass the exam and are hired as a regular teacher at either a public or private school, you will be exempt from having to repay the scholarship you borrowed for graduate school. .
On the other hand, it is necessary to continue considering the exemption of refunds for those who graduate from universities and become teachers, which requires system reform, taking into account the results of the exemption of refunds for those who have completed graduate school. That's what I mean.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology will present this proposal at a subcommittee of the Chuo Educational Council to be held on the 19th, and then make a formal decision.