Japan's Education Panel recommends students to stay away from the phone-loving English
A Japanese official education advisory panel to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda 26 report recommends that the Government take measures to restrict the use of mobile phones in Japan in primary and secondary school students, encourage them to enhance the learning of English. An Xiyou president of Keio University, Japan Ichiro led the 10 the Advisory Group to complete the report. The report said that the sites involved in making friends of the increasing number of children in criminal cases, such as an Internet-enabled mobile phones can not escape blame.

In this connection the report urged "parents and the school co-operation, unless it is necessary to avoid the use of mobile phones in primary and secondary school students"; require primary and secondary school students banned cell phones to send and receive e-mail; if the students be allowed to have cell phones, cell phones should open the GPS function, to enable students to facilitate the location of Identified.

Use software web shielding harmful legislation, the report said, "requires further study."

The Japanese government survey released in December last year, the report shows that Japan 7-year-old to 12-year-old student in about one-third of the use of mobile phones, 96% of high school students using mobile phones.

In addition to the topic of cell phones, the report also concerned about the Japanese English education in primary and secondary schools.

The report calls for students to learn English in advance. Today, English is from the first-year junior high school students from Japan for a compulsory course. The report recommends first in the country about 5,000 pilot schools, students from primary school English a compulsory subject from grade 3.

On the junior high school English teaching, and reporting requirements to improve the quality of textbooks, and the number of vocabulary. The report pointed out that China and South Korea teaching English in junior high school vocabulary for Japan's more than double.

Japan's Kyodo News quoted Japanese officials as saying that the Government is going to study the report to develop a detailed plan accordingly.