Japanese Embassy, Higher Education Institute hold meeting on scholarships

The Higher Education Institute (HEI) of the Supreme Education Council (SEC) in close cooperation and coordination with the Japanese Embassy in Doha organized an instructive meeting aimed of at briefing counselors from the Advising and Career Development Office and staff from the Scholarship Office on the opportunities and the many options offered by the Republic of Japan in undergraduate and postgraduate studies and explained the application process.

Addressing the meeting in the presence of Hiroma Amano, PR and Cultural Affairs attaché at the Japanese Embassy, Mr. Mr. Ryuji Ioana Counselor and Deputy Head of Japanese Diplomatic Mission explained the requirements, conditions and admissions procedures to the HEI staff to enable them to provide satisfactory counseling and advice to prospective students and their parents.

The Deputy head of the Japanese mission also reviewed the opportunities and the many options provided by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan to Qatari students. He explained the components of Japan's education system, the number of schooling years at each stage level; the beginning and the end of the terms; vacation period; the types of higher education institutions that offer scholarships to foreign students, including public and private universities, which amounted to more than 758 universities in Japan in addition to language institutes. He continued to explain the number of scientific disciplines and the admission requirements and the conditions and procedures in each field of study and stressed on the start and end date of submission of the scholarships programs in Japan.

He also highlighted the Qatari-Japanese cooperation in the field of education where he referred to the initiatives of HH the Emir of Qatar and Japanese leaders have led including the Languages Institute at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education that offers Japanese language, the opening of the Japanese School of Doha in April 2006, the establishment of the National Committee in 2008 for selection of candidates wishing to study in Japan comprising experts from Qatar University, the SEC and the Japanese Embassy. The committee’s role screening of documents, conducting interviews and reviewing written tests in order to facilitate the process of obtaining scholarships in higher education institutions in Japan.

Ilham Al Ahmadani, the Senior Officer at the Advising and Career Development Office said that the meeting comes within the context of HEI’s efforts to promote opportunities for excellence and to inform the academic advisers on the on-going developments in the Japanese education system and how to apply for Japanese Universities. Eleven of the 675 universities in the new list are located in Japan.

Al Ahmadani also called on students wishing to study in Japan to communicate with the Advising and Career Development Office to identify more opportunities and academic options regarding the study in Japan.