PART Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 2 Promotion of Lifelong Learning
4 Lifelong Learning and Institutions of Formal Education
(4) Strengthening Mutual Cooperation among Different Educational Institutions
In order to appropriately evaluate the academic achievements
acquired by students outside their own institution, various systems have been
introduced and put into effect. These include; a system of university credit
transfers (undergraduate and graduate level) under which a university may recognize
credits awarded by other institutions as equivalent to its own, and a system
of upper secondary (high school) credit transfers under which some upper secondary
credits are awarded to day/evening course or correspondence course students for
completing technical education or training courses given in special training
schools, miscellaneous schools or vocational training centers.