It has been revealed that the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's budget request for 2021 has reached a record high of 5 trillion yen.It demands about 9,000 billion yen for measures against the new coronavirus, aims to establish a detailed guidance system with a small number of people, and is also focusing on work style reforms at school sites and innovation creation at universities.

 According to the Ministry of Education, the requested amount of the education-related budget is 4 trillion yen.3,000 billion yen for introducing external human resources such as school support staff including infectious disease control, 349 billion yen for nationwide expansion of online learning system, 36 billion yen for sanitary environment improvement support project for infectious disease control, 78 for promoting reform of national universities It demanded trillions of yen and 1 billion yen for drastic reform of moral education.

 The policy is to include the placement of teachers in the small class of mathematics as a matter request that does not specify the budget amount, and to coordinate with the Ministry of Finance while considering the revision of the number of teachers.

 The required amount for sports is 444 billion yen.They asked for 106 billion yen to improve the competitiveness of the Tokyo Olympics and 48 billion yen to prevent infectious diseases in the sports league.The required amount for culture and art is 1,588 billion yen.It demands 444 billion yen for repairing and inheriting cultural properties, and 388 billion yen for strengthening the functions of national cultural facilities.

 The amount required for science and technology is 1 billion yen.2,400 billion yen for the world's top-level research center program, 66 billion yen for the university-initiated new industry creation program that creates innovation after the corona shock, 46 billion yen for the maintenance of the supercomputer "Futake", infections such as the new corona It demanded 327 billion yen for the research infrastructure creation project for disease control and 50 billion yen for the decommissioning of the fast breeder reactor "Monju".

reference:[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology] List of presentation materials such as the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's budget request for the 3rd year of Reiwa (September)

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