An Idea Whose Time Has Come

This is a policy that Japan should adopt:

"The university entry exam will be scrapped and that the thousands of private teaching centers that prepare students for the exam would be closed, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.

“Those centers will either turn themselves into high schools or will be shut down. We do not want people to spend their scarce [financial] resources on that,” Erdoğan told reporters accompanying him on a flight to Seoul on the weekend."

(the above is from the Hurriyet online edition)


Prep schools in Japan cost as much/more than universities. Universities are turning themselves inside out hoping to attract foreign students. Why? There are plenty of high school kids in Japan who would like to do their studying in the university, not in the prep school.