Professional secondary schools can help to industrialize the economy.
Japanese schools Kosen are designed to provide teenagers with professional skills during five years of intensive training.
Founded after World War II in order to help industrialize the economy of Japan, professional secondary schools now attract the attention of other Asian countries with the emerging market.
In Japan, the main role of such schools - the education of young engineers - is reduced, but the unique system of schooling is preserved. Therefore, technical schools can easily be added to the list of Japanese exports.
Among importers are Mongolia and Thailand. The Nikkei visited both countries to see how things are. "Nikkei" - (Kabushiki gaysya nihon keizai shimbunsya, joint stock company "Japanese economic news") - one of the largest media corporations in Japan. "Nikkei" specializes in the publication of financial, business and industrial news.
Thailand The Nikkei described as a country that worries about the so-called "middle income trap". Now there is a hope that the shack can help the country avoid this fate. After all, in the post-war years of the heyday of Japan, they were an integral part of the country's economic locomotive.
As for Mongolia, here students in the professional school Kosen, associated with the Mongolian University of Science and Technology, are studying, for example, electrical circuits.
Thai students study mainly in welding, while Mongolian students study computer programs and computer electrical circuits.
