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The British School in Tokyo, commonly known as BST, is an international private school in central Tokyo with over 1,300 students from over 65 nationalities,. BST takes students aged 3–18 that have been rated in all eight areas examined by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI). [ 1 ]
British School of Tokyo (Secondary school/sixth form divisions) The Junior High and Senior High School [ ja ] affiliated to the Bunkyo University Canadian International School (Senior high school division)
Passing the entrance exam to a university is a major life step for a young Japanese person. Higher education in Japan is provided at universities (大学 daigaku), junior colleges (短期大学 tanki daigaku), colleges of technology (高等専門学校 kōtō senmon gakkō) and special training schools and community colleges (専修学校 senshū gakkō).
The British School of Boston opened in September 2000 in Dedham, Massachusetts. In 2004, the school relocated to the Moss Hill section of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. It shares a 40 acres (160,000 m 2) campus with a satellite campus of Showa Women's University whose main campus is in Tokyo, Japan.
The prefectures with the highest concentration of British nationals were Tokyo (7,266), Kanagawa (1,791), Osaka (1,227), and Hokkaido (1,113). Permanent residents comprised 6,880 of the population, followed by those on professional visas (3,350) and those staying as spouses of Japanese nationals (3,037).
In 1947, Tsukukoma was established as a new junior high school affiliated with the former Tokyo Agricultural School. It was later renamed Komaba Junior and Senior High School, affiliated with Tokyo University of Education in 1952, and then, in 1978, it came under the purview of the University of Tsukuba, which replaced Tokyo University of Education that year.
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The first school to make the high school diploma a necessary and sufficient condition of admission was the University of Michigan in 1870; as high school education was standardized through accreditation bodies beginning in the 1880s, more colleges and universities followed Michigan's lead. [3] [4]