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“#I Want to Learn, But...” — Educational Inequality Due to Financial Circumstances Animation available here↓ https://www.nhk.or.jp/campaign/mirai17/mov_manabitai_sota.html “I can’t be selfish.” Many children worry about their families and parents. In a survey of people who got jobs after graduating from high school, about half of those from households with an annual income of 3.88 million yen or less said that “financial reasons made it difficult to go on to higher education.” Since 2020, a support system for higher education enrollment has also been in place for low-income households. “I want to learn, but I can’t. Isn’t that kind of wrong?”

Commentary: “#I Want to Learn, But Can’t—Gender Disparities in Education” Go to the animation here ↓ https://www.nhk.or.jp/campaign/mirai17/mov_manabitai_sakura.html “Because you’re a girl.” With words like that, you may be restricted. Although 15-year-old girls in Japan rank among the top in academic performance in math and science among OECD countries, the proportion of girls who go on to university or enter math- and science-related fields is low compared with other OECD countries. Among the things said with “because you’re a girl,” there are also forms of “benevolent discrimination.” “I want to learn, but I can’t. Doesn’t that seem kind of wrong?”