entitled.

He said that the government is prepared to
review applications by boards showing the
method by which lost instructional time will
be recovered. A decision will then be for-
warded to the board regarding restoration of
funds.

The recovered grant money will vary within
the 75 school districts, depending on the
numbers of teachers who did not report to
work and the length of time they remained
off the job.

Ministry of Education News Release
November 30, 1983

 

EDUCATIONAL LEAVE

I will be on educational leave from January
1 to April 30 next year. During this per-
iod, I plan to investigate adult education
programs and practices in the Osaka-Kobe
area of Japan.

I lived in this area for 3 years in the early
1970 and both the College and the ESL dis-
cipline currently have contacts and programs
with institutions in the area. My education-
al leave project involves observing the work-
ings of adult education programs in univer-
sities, industry and organizations like the
YMCA, in order to 'map' that part of Japan's
educational system.

I have been lucky to secure office space and
help in the education center of Kobe Steel,
one of Japan's larger corporations. From
this unique vantage point I will be able to
observe the role that in-house continuing
education in Japanese corporations plays in
Japan's economic success.

Important secondary goals include extending
my Japanese language fluency and identifying
potential partners and instructors for edu-
cational joint ventures similar to our lang-
uage study exchange programs currently under-
way.

Finally, I would like to thank the Education-
al Leave Committee and others who have ex-
tended, to me, the opportunity to do this

 

MAD HATTER PAGE 3

i - - Some
project. Thank you all. See you next

summer !
While I am away, I may be reached c/o:

Kobe YMCA College

School of Foreign Studies
7 - 15 Kano-cho, 2 chome
Chuo-ku, Kobe 650

Japan

Tom Whalley

 

 

FALL ENROLLMENT

The College has submitted the official 1983
fall term enrollment to the Ministry of Ed-
ucation.

The following table summarizes the enroll-
ment data. I have added the comparative
figures for 1982/83 (as reported in October
1982) and I have calculated the percentage
change.

Of particular note, but not shown on this
table, are the following:

Full-time enrollment increased from
1182 to 1994 (a 41% increase).

In 1982/83, Part-time enrollment con-
stituted 59% of total enrollment. In
1983/84, that percentage has decreased ;
to 54%. |

It should be noted that these data repres-
ent net headcount at the end of October of
each year.

Gerry DellaMattia
Dean, Educational & Student Services