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PROPHE Summary (by Hirosuke Honda): Two Japanese private higher education institutions (both with missionary roots reaching back prior to the twentieth century), plan to merge in spring 2008 partially due to the shrinking 18 year-old population in Japan that will result in a declining number of university applicants by 2009. Therefore, the mergers aim to build financial stability by expanding their student body and improving the quality of education to make the new institution more attractive. However, leaders are aware that talented students might shift to national universities as well as universities abroad. Meanwhile, Japanese authorities are preparing measures on the looming merger and closure of private universities. For the full story see Daily Yomiuri, January 19, 2006. "Merger
looms for private universities" Osaka. PROPHE Observation (by Daniel C. Levy): Merger is a common survival strategy implemented in the business
sector yet rather new in higher education outside the United States. For
the Japanese case, it may not be that surprising if private higher education,
the mass sector, would apply such a strategy for its own survival sake,
given that the sector is overwhelmingly led by business industry. Mergers
could help reduce unnecessary costs of individual institutions and strengthen
their financial foundation. Nonetheless, education is not the same as
business, and thus there may remain questions of how much effect students
would get and how much merger would really work for education.
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