Japanese higher education

Japan’s “Full-Time Part-Time” Instructors

by Alice Grodenker Hinako Matsumura teaches constitutional law in Japan. Or at least she tries. Her employment conditions as a part-time university lecturer are so poor that it’s virtually impossible to do a proper job of it. Unable to secure a full-time position, Matsumura has...

Kagawa University Investigated for Employing 400 Part-time Lecturers on Service Contracts

by Sahomi Nishimoto The education ministry has begun investigating Kagawa University in western Japan following the finding that it has left classes in the hands of about 400 part-time lecturers.

Japan’s Part-Time Lecturers Getting a Raw Deal

One-third of all part-time lecturers in Japan’s universities and junior colleges earn under two million yen a year ($17,963)—five times less than professors and full-time lecturers, a survey has found. And almost.