Five national universities in Shikoku, Tokushima University, Naruto University of Education, Kagawa University, Kochi University, and Ehime University, have established the "Shikoku Regional University Network Organization".Aim to be certified as a corporation that promotes cooperation with universities, etc., where joint establishment of lessons is permitted.
According to Ehime University, five schools became employees at the time of establishment, and Kazuo Yamashita, President of Naruto University of Education, was appointed as the representative director.
If certified by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as a corporation that promotes collaboration with universities, the teaching profession courses of each university will be standardized as early as 2023, and the first collaborative teaching profession course will be established nationwide.As a starting point, the policy is to make part of the teacher training for 5 practical subjects such as junior high school and high school skills, home, and health and physical education online, and jointly manage 8 credit classes.Compared to other subjects, practical subjects require more university teachers, but as the number of full-time teachers at each university decreases, it has become difficult to maintain a training course alone.
In addition, the Network Organization will mobilize the human resources of the five schools to develop human resources who will lead the regional revitalization of Shikoku and revitalize research.
The Ministry of Education has urged universities to integrate due to the decline in the 18-year-old population, and Nagoya University and Gifu University have merged, and Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Kitami Institute of Technology, and Otarushoka University in Hokkaido are aiming for integration in 3. ..However, corporate integration is difficult to reach consensus and has high hurdles.For this reason, there are movements at Yamanashi University and Yamanashi Prefectural University in addition to the five schools in Shikoku to aim for a corporation that promotes cooperation with universities that facilitates consensus building.
