Keidanren has put together a proposal for drastic university reform, such as building a mechanism for private universities whose management is deteriorating to withdraw at an early stage and optimizing the number and scale of national universities.The idea is to submit it to the Central Council for Education and reflect it in the government's university reform.
The proposal is a escort fleet-type university, considering that while the 18-year-old population is in danger of university management, the quality of education and research has been pointed out, such as the top universities in Japan dropping their international rankings. I realized that it was time to review the administration.
On top of that, for private universities, where 4% of the students have already fallen short of capacity, we will build a system that allows schools that are deteriorating management to withdraw at an early stage, and also allow school management such as allowing business transfer by faculty or department. He argues that it is necessary to increase the degree of freedom and make it easier to take measures for management rationalization.
For national universities where the decline in education and research capabilities is regarded as a problem, it is essential to optimize the number and scale, and legislation that allows one national university corporation to have multiple national universities under its umbrella Emphasized the need for.
Furthermore, at the same time as establishing an operating corporation that goes beyond the boundaries of national, public and private institutions and reviewing the one-school full-time system of faculty members, the government has drawn a grand design for the reorganization and integration of universities, and local industry, government and academia have a government policy. We are requesting that you consider concrete measures in line with.
Due to the decrease in the 18-year-old population, local universities and junior colleges have been dissolved and recruitment has been suspended one after another, and there have been cases in various places where local private universities have been made public to support management. As the 18-year-old population begins to decline sharply again from 2018, a sense of crisis is spreading to local national and public universities and private universities in metropolitan areas.
reference:[Japan Business Federation] Proposals for future university reform in Japan
