Due to the continued concentration of universities in the 23 wards of Tokyo, the National Governors' Association requested the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to correct the concentration in Tokyo, which was a special resolution at the National Governors' Association at the end of July.At the same time, we are actively promoting support for local universities and requesting that they support the realization of regional revitalization.
According to the National Governors'Association, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology was visited by Chairman Norihisa Satake (Governor of Akita Prefecture) of the National Governors' Association's Standing Committee for Education and Environment, and handed a special resolution to Deputy Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Shinjiro Komatsu.
The special resolution calls for the government to take legislative measures necessary to curb the increase in the number of universities in the 23 wards of Tokyo, and to take special financial measures to promote the relocation of universities to rural areas, including the establishment of satellite campuses in rural areas.
In addition, about the promotion of local universities
■ Establish a new financial support system for the reform of distinctive local universities
■ Flexible operation of installation standards for new expansion of local universities and reorganization of faculties and departments
■ Be careful not to concentrate on the 23 wards of Tokyo even if you set up a professional university.
-I'm looking for something like that.
Regarding the concentration of universities in the 23 wards of Tokyo, the government decided on the direction of curbing the expansion of new universities, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology requested each school planning to increase the number of students in the 23 wards to review it, but no university responded to this. rice field.At the National Governors' Association, Yuriko Koike, the governor of Tokyo, and others have expressed opposition, and if the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology takes steps to regulate it, it is expected that the university will oppose it.
