Next, we simulated the impact of the decline in the domestic 2018-year-old population after 18 on universities.The expected decrease in the 18-year-old population will decrease to the extent that 2025 universities with a small enrollment capacity disappear in 287, 2031 in 378, and 2045 in 500. do.He mentioned that in 2100, more than 556 universities would disappear, and the number of private universities in Japan would drop to less than 20.

　The decline in the 18-year-old population suggested that the capacity was likely to be weeded out from smaller universities.

　"Current Status of University Reform and Its Whereabouts Part 2"Now, I have considered the impact of the evolution of INTERNET EDUCATION, the evolution of automatic translators, and the evolution of virtual reality on domestic universities.The development of science and technology shows that even large-scale top-class Japanese universities can be an external pressure.

　In other words, Japanese universities are deprived of the existence value of Japanese universities by not only the rapid contraction of the market due to the decrease in the domestic 18-year-old population, but also the development of science and technology, which has brought a wave of advanced education overseas to Japan. It ends up.This is considered to be a scenario of Japanese university selection that will occur in the near future.

　"Current Status of University Reform and Its Whereabouts Part 3"Now, I touched on the world-class Minerva University, which is innovating human resources development methods from a completely new perspective.

　The characteristic of Minerva University is that it completely overturns the preconceived ideas and stereotypes of Japanese universities.

XNUMX: There is no lecture on basic knowledge, and each student learns in advance at INTERNET EDUCATION.
XNUMX: Real-time online active learning for all university lectures
XNUMX: Students from all over the world learn from each other in a boarding system
7: Visit XNUMX cities around the world to study and do internships in various places in a year
1: Tuition fees are 4/XNUMX of top-class universities (there is also a needs-based full tuition exemption system)

Minerva University, which is a typical example of the evolution of overseas education rushing to Japan, can be said to be the completed form of a state-of-the-art human resources development institution that perfectly combines the merits of both real and virtual.

　So far, it has been shown that various external pressures surrounding Japan are heading toward the selection of universities.

　In Part 4 of "Current Situation and Whereabouts of University Reform," I would like to consider the issues of the university by organizing the external pressure in the long-term range into three, based on such an external environment.

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