The fact that many private companies are reluctant to relearn at the lowest level of adult admission to higher education institutions in Japan is revealed in the materials submitted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to the Central Council for Education University Subcommittee. rice field.Almost half of the people are willing to relearn, but the education and training costs of companies are declining and leveling off, which is partly due to the fact that they are not actively adopting education and training that is temporarily conducted away from their daily work.

 This document is a compilation of various surveys conducted by public institutions by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.According to the report, the percentage of working adults in Japanese higher education institutions is 25% for bachelor's programs over 1.8 years old and 30% for master's programs over 14 years old. It is well below the average of 17.6% for bachelor's degree and 30% for master's degree in OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) member countries, and remains at the lowest level in developed countries.

 According to the public awareness survey, 19.1% of the respondents relearned and 30.3% wanted to learn, and almost half of them are positive. The main reasons are "I want to improve my education" and "I want to spend my future life meaningfully".

 On the other hand, education and training expenses of private companies peaked in the 1990s and then fell sharply, and then leveled off.OJT is the mainstream in which education and training that emphasizes is carried out while following daily work, reaching 74% for regular employees and 77.2% for non-regular employees, and the fact that they are not willing to temporarily leave their regular work and receive education and training emerges. It went up.

As for the method of conducting education and training, 61% of regular employees and 74.4% of non-regular employees are in-house, and they have not yet turned their attention to outsourcing and outsourcing.

reference:[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology] Reference Material 2 Current status of re-learning for working adults (PDF)

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