Teaching Soroban Loan Scheme - Terms and Conditions
Before submitting a loan request, please read the following carefully.
Eligibility
The long-term loan scheme is intended for teachers and educators to introduce soroban to their students. All UK-based teachers or educators working in a school and involved in teaching numeracy or mathematics are eligible to are apply for a free teaching soroban loan.
Other education institutions or organisations may be eligible for a loan and can contact the education team for further information or submit an application form. It is recommended that non-school applicants provide sufficient detail to demonstrate how the teaching soroban will be used.
Please note that we are unable to lend teaching soroban to parents or for-profit organisations. If you are not eligible for a long-term teaching soroban loan, you may like to use our other soroban resources or request to borrow teaching soroban and individual soroban under our short-term loan. Visit here for details.
Terms and Conditions
Those participating in the loan scheme must agree to the following terms and conditions:
- To return a signed copy of the loan's Terms and Conditions to the Education Team. This form must be co-signed by a member of the senior leadership team of the school/organisation; in the event that the borrower leaves the school/organisation during the loan period, the co-signer will take over responsibility for the loan.
- A feedback form must be completed once per term. This will contribute to research evaluating how teaching soroban are being used within the UK education context.
- The soroban is loaned to the school/organisation stated on the loan form rather than the individual applicant; therefore it may not be transferred to another school/organisation.
- The borrower should inform the Japan Society before the end of the loan period (one academic year) if they would like to renew the loan for the following year.
- The borrower will make arrangements with the Japan Society to return the soroban at the end of the loan and ensure it is suitably packaged.
- Borrowers will take reasonable care in using the loaned item and return it in a similar condition to which it was borrowed. The school/organisation understands that they will be invoiced for lost teaching soroban.