The government's "City, People, and Work Creation Conference" was held at the Prime Minister's Office, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe summarized the basic policy for the promotion of local universities by the summer of 2017, and restrained the expansion of new universities in Tokyo and moved to local areas. He expressed his intention to consider measures to promote the relocation of the university.In November, the National Governors' Association passed an urgent resolution calling for the university's centralized correction in Tokyo, and the government started to make corrections in earnest.
At the meeting of the Soseikai, Prime Minister Abe said, "To emphasize the importance of local universities as a base for developing human resources who will lead the region, and to create a flow for younger generations who tend to concentrate on Tokyo to move to the regions, universities in Tokyo. Suppress new expansion. "
According to the National Governors' Association, the urgent resolution aims to develop and secure human resources that will contribute to regional revitalization, and while the government is working on regional revitalization with measures to reduce the population, only the metropolitan area is over-migrated mainly to young people. He pointed out that the concentration in Tokyo is accelerating on the contrary.
On top of that, assuming that the reason for young people to concentrate on Tokyo is to go on to university, take special financial measures to curb the expansion of new universities in the 23 wards of Tokyo and promote the relocation from the 23 wards of Tokyo to rural areas. I'm looking for it.
Furthermore, while taking financial measures for local universities to promote local universities, we requested special measures to allow the flexible operation of university establishment standards for new expansion of local universities.It is appealing to increase the operating expenses subsidy for local national universities and to take promotion measures such as increasing the number of faculty and staff.We also called for specific legislative measures to implement these.
reference:[Prime Minister's Office] Town / People / Work Creation Conference
[National Governors'Association] November 28, 11 Regarding the holding of the "National Governors' Association" (Urgent resolution (draft) on human resource development and securing that contributes to regional revitalization)
