I’m writing a CV for work here in Japan and apparently I need to list the schools I went to since year 1. But there’s a problem. In the UK sometimes we have different school systems. My town now follows the norm (primary school (4-11), secondary school (11-16), college/sixth form (16-18), university (18+)).
But when I was at school, it was different (lower school (4-9), middle school (9-13), upper school (13-16), college/sixth form (16-18), university (18+)).
If my town went with the more widely used system I could easily just write 小学校、中学校、高等学校 but because we had one added school, I have no idea what to write. I was considering just using katakana ローアースクール、ミドルスクール、アッパースクール or whatever but I honestly don’t know. Any help would be appreciated.
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Just write them down in order with start and end dates. If someone transfers often it’s the same problem. No one cares about your primary and secondary schools anyway. They don’t assign the same value as they would if you went to a Waseda prep school or something.
Do they really care for records that far back? I don’t think I’ve ever listed anything other than the highest and most recent graduation/school. I have yet to encounter anyone caring for anything at all before that.
https://www.studyabroad.co.jp/uk/education/
https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/chousa/shougai/015/siryo/attach/1374963.htm
I apologize for being clueless about the UK system, but from these websites it looks like you can just use katakana. I doubt no one’s going to care about anything below the equivalent of high school, but if they do ask, you can show them a website run by the Japanese government to explain and no one’s going to question it. Maybe put parentheses like -School Name- ロアースクール(初等教育) to clarify. Tbh if I were you I’d just write everything in English like how you’d normally write a cv, but I can’t guarantee there won’t be any problems if you did so. Btw is Sixth form the equivalent of high school in America? I assume the first 1 or 2 years in lower school is the equivalent of preschool/kindergarten?