The Advisory Council of the National Strategic Special Zones, which aims to promote the region through deregulation, has decided to start amending the relevant system in order to establish a new veterinary training department. Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, which was designated as a special zone together with Hiroshima Prefecture in 2015, is promoting the attraction of veterinary universities, but the opening of the school in April 2018, which is the target of this decision, has become a reality.
The National Strategic Special Zones Advisory Council established in the Cabinet Office has stated that as an additional deregulation matter, it will promote the revision of related systems that will allow the establishment of a new veterinary school only in areas where there are no veterinarian training universities in a wide area. ..
The outbreak of zoonotic diseases and infectious diseases through livestock and food has spread internationally, and the work that veterinarians should do is increasing rapidly. Drugs are listed as immediate issues.The establishment of a new veterinary school has not been approved for about 50 years under the approval standards of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.Following this decision, the related systems are expected to be revised as early as this year.
Imabari City has been selected as a National Strategic Special Zone and is in the area for developing an international education center for veterinarians.The city has long sought to attract veterinary colleges to stop the outflow of young people.The candidate site is 2 hectares of Ikoinooka, a city-owned land located in the second district of Imabari New City on the outskirts of the city.The government will promote open recruitment of businesses such as school corporations in the future, but the city is also considering the free transfer of university land.
