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Nursing School Training in Crisis? Declining Enrollment From High Schools—Total Capacity Falls Below 70%… Schools in Kagoshima Prefecture Are Scrambling to Recruit.
The number of students enrolling in nursing programs at six high schools in Kagoshima Prefecture that train nurses continues to decline. Data from 2016 onwards shows that the enrollment rate, which represents the percentage of students who have enrolled out of the total capacity (560), exceeded 100% four times, but has fallen below that since 2021. In 2025, it was the lowest in the last 10 years at 69.1% (387 students), causing growing concern a…
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The number of students enrolling in nursing programs at six high schools in Kagoshima Prefecture that train nurses continues to decline. Data from 2016 onwards shows that the enrollment rate, which represents the percentage of students who have enrolled out of the total capacity (560), exceeded 100% four times, but has fallen below that since 2021. In 2025, it was the lowest in the last 10 years at 69.1% (387 students), causing growing concern a…