Juichi Yamagiwa, President of the Japan Association of National Universities (President of Kyoto University) and others visited the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Masahiko Shibayama, and requested a stable payment of operating expenses grants.He called for a cautious response, saying that increasing the reallocation ratio based on the evaluation of each year may not produce results in a short period of time depending on the academic field.
According to the Kokudaikyo, in addition to Chairman Yamagoku, Vice President Seiichi Matsuo, President of Nagoya University, Kyosuke Nagata, President of University of Tsukuba, Masao Oka, President of Yamaguchi University, and Kimiko Murofushi, President of Ochanomizu University, were present at the meeting with Minister of Education Shibayama.Based on the president's statement released by the Japan Association of National Universities in November, we exchanged opinions on stable benefits of operating expenses grants.
Among them, Chairman Yamagiwa and other members of the Japan Association of National Universities mentioned that the operating expenses subsidy has been reduced almost every year since the incorporation of the national university in 2004, and the national university has a future-oriented management strategy. He appealed for the need for stable benefits of operating expenses subsidies in order to realize autonomous management.
Of the operating cost grants, a mechanism has been introduced to reduce core costs at a fixed rate each year and redistribute them as expenses related to specific strategies, objectives, etc. based on annual evaluations, and the reallocation ratio tends to increase. However, he argues that such short-term evaluation financial measures make it difficult for the autonomous management of national universities, which is the original purpose of incorporation.He called for corrections, saying that it could hinder medium- to long-term reforms and make autonomous management difficult.
