The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology will start a junior doctor training school for elementary and junior high school students as a new business from 2017.The Japan Science and Technology Agency has begun recruiting implementing agencies for a project to discover elementary and junior high school students with high motivation and outstanding abilities, to educate them as talented people at universities, etc., and to develop them into human resources who will lead Japan in the future.

 According to the Japan Science and Technology Agency, recruitment targets are national, public and private universities, colleges of technology, public research institutes, museums, science museums, NPO corporations, public interest corporations, and private companies.About 10 institutions are scheduled to be adopted, and each institution will support up to 1 million yen per year for up to 1,000 years.

 The junior doctor training school is held on weekends and summer vacations over a period of one to two years.We will set up bases at universities, research institutes, companies, etc. all over the country, select elementary and junior high school students who have outstanding talents in specific fields such as science and mathematics, information, etc., and provide opportunities for individual guidance and experiment participation by researchers and experts.
At the final stage, we will gather top-class students from each base, hold a training camp for several days, listen to lectures by Nobel Prize-winning scholars, and consider sending excellent students overseas.

 At universities and high schools, efforts to develop future leaders have become active, but at the compulsory education stage, there were few such efforts.Especially excellent elementary and junior high school students will lose their motivation to learn if they do not learn at a high level, and research results have shown that their abilities are buried, so it seems that attention will be focused on the effects of the new project to raise children with high abilities.

reference:[Japan Science and Technology Agency] Recruitment of new business "Junior Doctor Training School" in XNUMX

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