In October, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology will change the Lifelong Learning Policy Bureau to the Comprehensive Education Policy Bureau, and will carry out structural reforms to transfer some operations such as overseas child education and teacher training from the Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau and the Higher Education Bureau.In order to make it easier to tackle the "human resource development revolution" that the government advocates, we will review the system in light of the changing times.
According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the current Lifelong Learning Policy Bureau has a system of 6 sections and 1 counselor, including the Policy Division and Lifelong Learning Promotion Division, but the Comprehensive Education Policy Bureau has the Planning and Coordination Division, Education Reform Promotion Division, Policy Research Division, and Education Human Resources Policy Division. , Lifelong Learning Promotion Section, Community Learning Promotion Section, Gender Equality / Symbiotic Society Learning Promotion Section.
While information education at schools will be transferred from the current Lifelong Learning Policy Bureau to the Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau, higher education such as overseas child education, foreign child student measures, school safety measures, national academic ability and learning situation surveys will be transferred from the Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau. From the bureau to teacher training, etc. will be in charge of the General Education Policy Bureau.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has positioned the Comprehensive Education Policy Bureau as the leading bureau in the field of education, saying that it will be possible to promote comprehensive and consistent education policies through school education and social education by establishing the Comprehensive Education Policy Bureau.In the era of 100 years of life, a super-smart society, globalization, and the rapid changes in society such as population decline, we have a system that can respond to the development of people who can play an active role in the new era.
Initially, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology had a policy of making the Gender Equality Learning Division a symbiotic social learning division and removing the name of "gender equality" from the section name, but criticism was raised from women's groups and the section name. Was decided to be the Gender Equality and Symbiotic Society Learning Promotion Division.
