The purpose of this study is to explain the process by which Japanese high school students who had already experienced an overseas exchange program chose a university in an Englsh-speaking-country. 10 university students who had already participated in an exchange program and then had considered spending their whole university life abroad were interviewed. The data were then analyzed with the Modified Grounded Theory Approach. The process was explained as follows: they had developed an image of their future selves through their exchange experiences, especially through the interactive classes they had experienced during the exchange program, and feeling that they would be limited by the learning culture in Japan, had determined that studying abroad for university would help them attain that image.

Abstract: Leading business schools in Europe and the United States have been greatly successful in terms of producing global human resources. From my current research, I have concluded that characteristics such as internationalism, faculty recruitment and evaluation criteria, and independence from the university administration are the main success factors for influential Western business schools. Therefore, in the cases of Cornell’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, a typical business school at a U.S. research university, and IESE, which opened in 1958 and immediately started to obtain extremely high social evaluations, I will focus on analyzing their internationalism, faculty recruitment and evaluation criteria, and independence from their university administrations.

This paper analyzes the young-scientists-fostering conferences, which are prepared for outstanding doctoral course students all over the world and Nobel Laureates. This paper reveals the aspects of the brain circulation at the relatively early stage of scientists’ career. The original conference was mainly planned to cultivate young scientists’ sound mind and making a peace. In the age of the brain circulation,it is spreading to other countries, and changing aims. Conferences have become governments’ strategy of attracting and nurturing higher-level global human resources in science fields. Firstly, the paper compares “Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting” in German, “Hope meeting with Nobel Laureate” in Japan and “Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS)” in Singapore. It explains they are different from former international education policies and they have new aspects in the strategy of brain circulation. Secondly, by doing fieldwork in the GYSS, the paper reveals the scheme of the conference. The GYSS has many characteristics to works as making countries in the central position in science networks. The paper also discussed the famous characteristic of Singapore in a science strategy by analyzing the attitude towards the conference.

This study introduces teaching materials for fostering university students’academic genre knowledge. The materials feature simultaneous use of English in the process of enhancing the knowledge students have gained, mostly from their junior high school curriculum. It seems that what they learned at high school is not systematically established. As a result, university students are likely to have some difficulty in accumulating what they are expected to possess as academic knowledge. The teaching materials, whose medium for education is English, can provide them with a chance to reconstruct their academic knowledge. Not treated as a learning target, English plays a crucial role in helping them deepen their comprehension. Moreover, the use of English will contribute to the further understanding of three main branches of science: natural science, human science, and social science.