The Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo
Abstract
Today, Scholarship is thought effective as a method to realize the equality of opportunity for university education. Scholarship from the Japan Scholarship Foundation (Nihon Ikuei-Kai) is the largest one among Japanese scholarships. In this paper, I examined the effectiveness of that, considering the amount lent to each student. I set three points of examination, (1) How large is the gap of the life conditions between scholarship students and others? (2) To what extent is the gap corrected between "National and Public university scholarship students" and "Private university ones", and between students come to university from their parents\u27homes and those from dormitory and others? (3) Taking into account the fact that difference of the localities is not considered by the present scholarship system, what problems are predicted to appear from the present distributions? From the examination of those, two points are made clear; (1) the present scholarship is to enlarge in sum, though it has some effects to the equal educational opportunity, (2) the difference of the sum lent to students of each category, as "National and Public" or "Private, "Parents\u27Home" or "Dormitory", is not so large to ensure the equal opportunity. Adding to these, the present system cannot adapt itself to the variety of students\u27study conditions. The reasons of that are; it is difficult to enlarge the sum because the scholarship is lent to each student (not given), and the differences of sum are determined on the limited categories referred above. All these problems are emerged from the defects of the present scholarship system represented by the Japan Scholarship Foundation (Nihon Ikuei-Kai). Thus, it is required to reconsider the very nature of the present scholarship system
