The Pasona Research Institute (Director: Heizo Takenaka) of Pasona Group Co., Ltd., which holds forums and makes recommendations for solving various social issues together with experts inside and outside the company, made the 5th proposal by the Steering Committee. What is the education required in the age of 100 years of life? -University will be reborn as a platform to support people who want to continue working!- "

 In a company facing changes in the business environment, such as the conventional batch recruitment of new graduates and the revision of the personnel system on the premise of lifetime employment, each worker responds to the 100-year life era and develops each skill according to the environmental change. It is required to continue rebuilding.However, in companies, there is little incentive to spend money on recurrent education (education system that recommends alternating education and employment for a lifetime) for skill reconstruction of middle-aged and elderly people, and universities (institutes) have such functions and capacities. There is a current situation where companies are not aware of having a city.

 Therefore, at the Pasona Research Institute, discussions were held so that the university (graduate school) could be reborn as a platform to support people who want to continue working. Ha ”was summarized.

 The recommendations are as follows: 1. "A drastic review of the personnel system from membership type to job type in a company" for the personnel department of a large company that does not move, and 2. "University" for universities that cannot meet expectations. The above three points were shown: "Reform of management and review of the supervision system for higher education by the government", 3. "Drastic review and expansion of recurrent education for middle-aged and older people" for unexpected recurrent education for middle-aged and older people.

 2. In "Reform of university management and review of government supervision system for higher education", the university (institute) operates a more flexible curriculum operation and provides a program with practical contents in order to develop human resources required by companies. Should be done.For such management, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has set up an advisory body including the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in the Cabinet Secretariat, supervising and subsidizing universities (graduate schools) according to the policy there, and further drastically if necessary. It was recommended that a general organizational restructuring should be considered.

 In addition, in 3. "Drastic review and expansion of recurrent education for middle-aged and elderly people", the government will hire and utilize a large amount of subsidies because the original recurrent education aimed at revitalizing middle-aged and elderly human resources will be broadly implemented with an eye on the 100-year life era. Recommendations should be made to companies that are in a position to do so.While competing with private specialized companies and vocational schools, the university (graduate school) will review the content of the educational programs it provides to win the competition, and will be reborn as a platform that supports people who want to continue to be active through their work. I expected it.

Reference: [Pasona Research Institute] What is the education required in the age of 100 years of life? -University is reborn as a platform that supports people who want to continue working! ― (PDF)

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