An off-campus member of the Kagawa University Management Committee has issued a statement calling for enhanced national support to strengthen the functions of national university corporations.He is appealing to increase the amount of operating expenses subsidy, saying that it is causing a decline in research ability.
According to Kagawa University, the off-campus committee members who issued the statement were Yujiro Ayata, President of the 7th Bank, Motohisa Kaneko, Specially Appointed Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Takahiro Kamyo, Director of the United Nations and Foreign Affairs Center at Kwansei Gakuin University, Soichiro Tanaka, Visiting Professor at Teikoku University, and Shoshikoku Chiba. Seven members: Electricity Advisor, Yoshikazu Nishihara, Deputy Governor of Kagawa Prefecture, and Misako Fujioka, President of Teikoku Seiyaku.
In the statement, the national university is an important public good that creates new knowledge and fosters human resources who will lead the future, and it is positioned as the core of the development of human society and regional revitalization. He pointed out that the management of national university corporations is being forced into a difficult situation due to the reduction of operating expenses subsidies.
The current method of allocating operating expenses subsidies with a certain degree of sharpness does not deny itself, but it does not fully consider the demands of the local community, and education・ It was said that it did not lead to improvement of research ability.
As a result, the gap with the world has widened in basic research and academic research, and it is in a difficult situation to be behind other countries, and each national university requests more financial support so that it can fully enhance its functions. ing.
