A private school promotion council consisting of private university-related organizations and parliamentarians was held at a hotel in Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and requested cooperation from the liberal arts parliamentarians of the LDP to correct the burden gap between national universities and private universities. ..
According to the Japan Association of Private Universities, Kaoru Kamata, the former president of Waseda University, and Takeo Kawamura, the former Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, are the co-representatives of the Japan Association of Private Universities. The side explained and entered into a discussion.
Among them, the private university side has fixed the disparity between national university students and private university students, while the free university introduction introduced from 2020 is an extremely important measure in Japan where the birthrate is declining and the disparity is widening. He pointed out that inequality could be further increased.It is necessary to maintain and expand the current tuition exemption for private university students and strive to support the middle class.
The government's subsidy for education and research equipment at private universities was secured at 2019 billion yen in the 59 budget, but universities with 100% earthquake resistance are required.There are many buildings that are cultural properties in private universities, and it is difficult to achieve 100% earthquake resistance by the efforts of individual universities, so he appealed to remove 100% earthquake resistance from the subsidy requirements.
He added that the national budget for private university facilities and research equipment has been reduced by almost half in the last eight years, and emphasized the need for a significant increase in the national budget for further facility development.
