The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has decided to add a notification different from the existing notification by curbing the expansion of new universities in the 23 wards of Tokyo, and reported it to the Future Planning Subcommittee of the Central Council for Education University Subcommittee. Public comments will be accepted until February 2019 and a notification will be promulgated in late February with the content of curbing the establishment of faculties and the increase in capacity in 2.
According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, it has already been announced in the notification that the increase in capacity in 23 and the establishment of universities in 2018 will not be permitted in principle due to the restraint of new university expansion in the 2019 wards of Tokyo.This time, we will add new faculties and departments in 2019 and curb the increase in capacity.
The exception is
■ By the end of September 2017, we have published documents certifying that we will apply for the establishment of faculties and departments in 9 and the increase in capacity.
■ At night, establishment of faculties and departments for correspondence education, increase in capacity
■ Establishment of faculties and departments where more than half of the classes are held outside the Tokyo metropolitan area (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba), and increase in capacity
■ Increased temporary capacity to secure local doctors
■ Increased capacity to increase foreign students and working students
-Such.
The government plans to curb the two years of 2018 and 2019 with a notification from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.After that, it will be regulated by a bill decided by the Cabinet in early February and now submitted to the ordinary Diet session.However, the permanent regulations are strongly opposed by Governor Yuriko Koike of Tokyo and private universities with campuses in the 2rd ward.For this reason, the government is adjusting the period for prohibiting new expansion of the bill to be about 2 years in principle.
