Initiatives to export Japanese-style education system to overseas

Background and thoughts on the creation of this project

The Company and Kawaijuku Group possess an abundance of educational content, expertise, and methods, and many of these educational assets have been developed and widely implemented in Japan. For instance, Kawaijuku Group's national standardized mock test has become widely disseminated across Japan as the de facto standard for test-taking content and know-how.

We would like to utilize these educational assets even more widely, both within Japan and abroad, and are promoting a project to expand Kawaijuku Group's educational services to developing countries.

By localizing Kawaijuku Group's educational resources and distributing them around the world, we can create a virtuous cycle of not only resolving educational issues and raising educational standards in all countries involved, but also contributing to their development, thereby generating even more added value.

With these lofty goals in mind, we hope to spread the effectiveness of Japan-style education throughout the world, beginning with our test development project in Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan Educational Support Project (JICA Project)

• Project name adopted by JICA：

•  Project to Disseminate, Demonstrate, and Commercialize the Introduction of Japanese-Style Student Aptitude Test Methods in Uzbekistan (SME Support Program)

• Implementation period：

•  August 2021 to November 2023 (2 years and 4months)

• Purpose of project (and aimed outcome)：

 The following are the three goals of this project.

1. Establish a standard method of assessing student aptitude in Uzbekistan
2. Investigate the applicability of Japan-style aptitude tests in Uzbekistan and establish a standard method of assessing student aptitude.
3. Propose measures for improving education
4. Propose educational improvement measures for Uzbekistan based on test analysis results, and aim to contribute to raising educational standards.
5. Create a preliminary plan for expanding the business
6. Create a preliminary plan for disseminating Japan-style student aptitude test methods in Uzbekistan.

• Activities：

•  Administer a Japan-style mathematics aptitude test four times, mainly with local 8th to 10th graders, and analyze the results to determine the test’s applicability in Uzbekistan and the prospects for expanding the educational improvement business.

• Main local counterparts：

1. ・Counterparty government agency : Ministry of Public Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Ministry of Public Education)
2. ・Counterparty government project implementation and contact organization：The Scientific Research Institute for Studying the Problems and Determining the Prospects of Public Education named after A. Avloni
3. ・Cooperating organizations for testing : 40 school demonstration sites to administer the test (from 14 states across the country)

• Main domestic counterparts：

1. ・Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
2. ・Hapiral Test Solutions Co., Ltd.
3. ・Digital Knowledge Co., Ltd.
4. ・Katahira & Engineers International