A joint meeting of the Central Council for Education's university subcommittee and future vision subcommittee was held at the TKP Akasaka Station Conference Center in Minato-ku, Tokyo, and the results of simulations using AI (artificial intelligence) were reported on the future image of Japanese society. ..As Japan shifts from a growing and expanding society to a mature society due to the declining birthrate and aging population and changes in the industrial structure, Japan in 2050 has the potential to be both a good direction with high sustainability and a bad direction with low sustainability. There is.
The simulation was carried out by the Higher Education Bureau of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology with the cooperation of Hitachi Kyoto University Lab and Kyoto University Kokoro Research Center.This is the first time that a ministry has conducted a simulation using Hitachi's AI technology.
We set 17 social factors, including 166 related to higher education, which are considered necessary in Japanese society, and conducted 2050 simulations toward 2 using AI.The results were evaluated in four sustainability areas: population, finances, cities / regions, environment / resources, and five social performances: employment, disparity, health, well-being, and education.
According to it, the 2 simulations were roughly divided into eight scenarios.It can be further broadly divided into three scenarios with high sustainability, high social performance and high higher education, one scenario with medium level, and four scenarios with low level. ..
It was also found that the turning point between the good direction and the bad direction was around 2027 to 2028, and that it did not intersect after that.In addition, good to medium scenarios diverge around 2034-2035.
Looking to the future of Japanese society, the Ministry of Education said that improving the quality of higher education will contribute to sustainability and social performance, and it is necessary to steadily implement university reform by the turning point around 2027-2028. Emphasized that there is.Particularly important items are improving the quality of education, increasing the university entrance rate, and promoting local universities.
