The establishment of an outstanding graduate school with the world's highest level of educational and research capabilities was included in the draft deliberation summary prepared by the Central Council for Education Graduate School Subcommittee of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, which discusses the future of graduate school education.It was shown as part of university reform in the revised version of the "Japan Revitalization Strategy" compiled by the government in June, and is expected to become a base for researching artificial intelligence and creating new industries.
According to the draft, the Graduate School of Excellence is a five-year program with a consistent master's and doctoral program.We will design the system based on the existing doctoral course reading system aimed at developing human resources who can play an active role throughout the world.The research content assumes areas where Japan has an international advantage, areas that lead to the creation of new industries, and areas where literary fusion is possible.In cooperation with foreign universities, research institutes and private companies, we aim to be an organization where various human resources can participate in joint research, and we are developing "intellectual professionals".We will also consider introducing a research assistant that pays graduate students hired as research assistants.The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has a policy to set up a study group by industry, government, and academia within this year to show the study targets and mechanisms. From 2016, each university will collaborate with private companies to put the concept into practice.
In recent years, excellent students in Japanese graduate schools have not advanced to doctoral programs, and there are concerns that their international competitiveness will decline.The development of human resources who have high expertise and ethics, can create new value, and can play an active role internationally has emerged as an urgent issue.Therefore, regarding graduate school reform, the Central Council for Education promotes systematic and systematic education and improves the quality of students, improves the quality of professional graduate schools such as law schools, strengthens industry-government-academia-private partnerships, and promotes re-learning of working adults. In addition to clarifying the direction of seven items such as these, we have positioned the Graduate School of Excellence as an important issue in such reforms.
In addition, the draft considers recent research misconduct as a problem and mentions research ethics education and improvement of the guidance system at graduate schools.It is said that multiple faculty members should be assigned to thesis guidance, plagiarism search software should be used for examination, and faculty members should take research ethics programs.
