EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM & PRACTICE IN JAPAN

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	Qualifications for conventional principal ● Advanced class certificate of a teacher or first class certificate (upper secondary school and lower secondary school principals need advanced class certificates) ● More than 5 years of “education-related job” experience. It is necessary to fulfil both requirements above. These regulations were revised in 2000, eliminating the necessity of a teaching certificate from the qualification. The two types of cases that a citizen will be accepted as a principal without a teaching certificate are as follow: ● More than 10 years of “education-related job” experience (Article 20, Clause 2) ● “If there is a particular need for improved school management,” in addition to the above requirements, “a person that is viewed as having equivalent qualities to persons who fulfil qualifications mentioned in Article 20 can be appointed or employed as principals” (Article 22) “Appointment of a citizen as the Principal” is the latter case. Appointments are made by appropriate authorities who have appointment rights.