History and Aims of The Programme
The English Teaching Recruitment Programme was started in 1978 and initially was exclusively for British university graduates. This programme became known as the "British English Teachers Scheme." American teaching assistants were later added under the "Mombusho English Fellows Program." As more countries were included, the programmes were folded into a single entity, the JET Programme, in 1987. Its aims were revised to "increase mutual understanding between the people of Japan and the people of other nations, to promote internationalisation in Japan's local communities by helping to improve foreign language education, and to develop international exchange at the community level." In 2004, the JET programme welcomed 6,103 participants from 41 countries. As of November 3, 2009, there are 4,436 participants (366 CIRs, 4,063 ALTs, and 7 SEAs). The total number of JET participants has decreased by an average of 333 people per year since 2004.
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