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Japan to reduce class size by 2025

By on February 2, 2021

 

Japan has adopted a bill today reducing the maximum number of elementary grade students per class (at public schools) from the current 40 to 35. This will be implemented fully by 2025.

The bill calls  for the reduction in grade 2 class size starting from school year April 2021, and in higher grade levels for the coming years.

 It will be the first time in around 40 years for Japan to downsize public elementary school classes on all grade levels. The first grade class size has already been reduced to 35 in 2011.

 “We’ll look after each student carefully to bring out their potentials, as the downsized classes will function collaboratively using information and communications technology,” education minister Koichi Hagiuda said at a press conference.

The education ministry had called for public elementary and junior high schools to bring the number down to 30 in order to strengthen countermeasures against the novel coronavirus and promote education using personal computers.

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