Doing a detailed study on school life in Japan. I was just wondering what students do after they graduate from school? Do most students go straight into work or university? Thanks Jack
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Most parents won't allow their children to do anything BUT enter university right after high school. I usually don't hear of students working right after graduating high school, as most often the last couple years in high school is dedicated to the students choosing to apply for the right university for them - the teachers will personally speak to students about their choices and possibilities. Many students will often attend cram school after they finish class during the school week to prepare for the university entrance exams. High school in Japan is really all about preparing to get into university.
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In Japan senior high school is not required however 99% of Japanese students go onto senior high school anyway and over 90% graduate. After senior high school it depends. Some might enter directly into the workforce, others might go onto specialty/technical schools (senmon gakko), these are like technical training colleges where someone learns and studies a particular skill, and others might go into Junior colleges or enter University. In fact only about 29% of Japanese high school graduates actually go into a University. Another 10-15% enter two-year Junior colleges and over 25% enter technical/specialty training schools.
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You'll probably want to get some verifiable statistics instead of opinions. There are a lot of people that don't go to university in Japan, so I'm not sure where the first answerer got his or her "facts" from. Like a lot of foreigners in Japan, that person is probably a young university grad without much experience in the world, now teaching English in Japan, completely in a world of "education", and therefore not seeing much beyond it. It's much like Western countries in that some people go directly to working, some go directly to college or university. Some take a year or two off before heading to post-secondary education. It can be quite difficult to get into some universities, so some serious students will spend a year after highschool studying for the entrance exams to the universities they'd like to go to. Japanese love their statistics, so I'm sure there's a ton of info. out there on the web.
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