A meeting of experts was set up to examine the ideal way of granting operating expenses to national universities, and the first meeting was held at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Tokyo. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) presented a distribution method based on evaluation as an issue to be examined, with the aim of examining the grant payment policy for the 2020th medium-term target period starting in 4.
According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Council of Experts will consist of 16 academic experts, including Takero Doi, Professor of Economics, Keio University, Shuichi Abe, Governor of Nagano Prefecture, and Hiroshi Matsumoto, President of RIKEN.The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has shown the role that operating cost grants should play, how to allocate them to each university, and how to allocate evaluations based on objective and common indicators.The Council of Experts will continue discussions and reach conclusions by the end of 2021.
The national university operating expenses grant is about 86 trillion yen every year as research expenses and personnel expenses of 1 national universities.However, due to the financial difficulties of the government, some have pointed out that the total amount has been declining since the incorporation of national universities in 2004, which has led to a decline in the research capabilities of national universities.
The national university is demanding an increase in the operating cost subsidy, but the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is strengthening its stance of allocating a part of the operating cost subsidy according to the progress of university reform.
