With a school building in Uruma City, Okinawa Prefecture, the correspondence high school / N High School (N High School), which is a hot topic for unique education utilizing the Internet, and Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture have formed a partnership for remote island education for junior high and high school students to university students. Started developing a new program.
According to Kadokawa Dwango Gakuen, which operates N High School, both sides will refer to the opinions of outside experts on a new educational program based on issues such as population decline, decrease in exchange population, and difficulty in business succession, which are problems in remote islands nationwide. To develop.The target is assumed to be junior high and high school students to university students, with a view to regional issues, tourism resources, and utilization of special products.
An internship that aims to solve local issues as well as work experience while staying for a long time, a tour to visit Goto City and experience industry and tourism, with contents that allow you to acquire skills that can collaborate with others and creative and logical thinking. , Looking for methods such as workshops that can be held anywhere in the country.
Goto City is composed of 11 manned islands and 52 uninhabited islands in the East China Sea in western Nagasaki Prefecture, and has a population of about 3.Although there are tourism resources such as churches made by hidden Christians, camellia oil, which boasts the largest production in Japan, and Goto udon, which is a specialty, the population has almost halved since 8,000.
N High School will invite current students to participate in the program, while also accepting participation from junior high and high school students and university students other than current students.We would like to make it a model program that can be introduced in other areas, and promote the settlement of remote islands and expand exchanges.
