  {"id":73088,"date":"2018-01-12T14:35:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T00:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=73088"},"modified":"2020-03-05T15:13:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:13:57","slug":"eiken-language-assessment-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/12\/eiken-language-assessment-test\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West O\u02bbahu to accept EIKEN language assessment test"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_73098\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73098\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/westoahu-campus.jpg\" alt=\"糖心Vlog官方 West Oahu\" width=\"676\" height=\"451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/westoahu-campus.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/westoahu-campus-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8212;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8211;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a> has partnered with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eiken.or.jp\/eiken\/en\/\">EIKEN Foundation of Japan<\/a> and will now accept EIKEN results as evidence of English proficiency. This partnership will allow all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/a> campuses to now accept the EIKEN test for admission purposes, making it the first statewide system of higher education in the nation to use the EIKEN test systemwide.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our use of the EIKEN test and present and future cooperative partnerships with the EIKEN Foundation of Japan will benefit <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>&#8217;s efforts at internationalizing the campus and connecting our <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> students to the world,&rdquo; <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Chancellor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/leadership\/maenette-benham\/\">Maenette Benham<\/a><\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This important step will strengthen what are already extraordinary ties between the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> System and the country and people of Japan,&rdquo; <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> President <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/leadership\/david-lassner\/\">David Lassner<\/a><\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> has long been a major destination for Japanese students: <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa has more graduate students from Japan than any other university in the U.S., and <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College has more undergraduate students from Japan than any institution in the nation.<\/p>\n<h2>More about the EIKEN tests<\/h2>\n<p>EIKEN tests are administered at more than 17,000 sites across Japan and are also administered in London, New York, Los Angeles and Honolulu. These tests are recognized by more than 400 institutions of higher education in the United States, Australia and Canada.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Leila Wai Shimokawa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This partnership allows 糖心Vlog官方 to accept the EIKEN test for admission purposes, making it the first statewide system of higher education in the nation to use the EIKEN test systemwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[134,953,935,9,59],"class_list":["post-73088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-international","tag-international-education","tag-international-student","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73088"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112531,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73088\/revisions\/112531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}