[1] Looking back on the current situation of higher education institutions

　"Current Status of University Reform and Its Whereabouts Part 4"I would like to look back on the challenges of higher education institutions due to the three external pressures that accelerate the selection of universities as seen from the future forecast of 2100.

　We have organized the three external pressures into three categories: 3. Population trends and economic changes, 1. Science and technology evolution, 2. University changes and administrative measures. Chart 3 is a diagram of external pressure based on the positioning map of Japanese higher education institutions.

Chart 1 Direction of external pressure on Japanese higher education institutions

　The first external pressure (yellow), "population transition and economic changes," is likely to promote the decline of the Japanese economy and reduce tuition fees for higher education.Therefore, the needs toward the left side of Chart 3 will expand.In addition, the drastic decrease in the domestic 18-year-old population will be the external pressure of the selection of higher education institutions from the bottom to the top.Selection from private universities with low investment-to-outcomes (high tuition and low outcomes) will accelerate.

　Next, the second external pressure (pink), "evolution of science and technology," has high investment-to-outcomes represented by Minerva University from free online learning utilizing artificial intelligence (high outcomes but low tuition fees). Promote external pressure at the university.The aggression from the upper left to the lower right will spread.From the moment the "language barrier" of simultaneous interpreters is removed, this need is likely to be greatest, as high investment vs. outcome (high outcome / low tuition) universities expand and online is the mainstream. Oligopoly progresses.

　Also, there is a possibility that the university graduation qualification (diploma) will not make sense in the first place.If what can be done (outcome evaluation adoption) becomes mainstream instead of which university the recruitment criteria such as companies graduated from (diploma certification adoption), artificial intelligence online learning developed by companies with huge financial power will be It may become mainstream.

　Finally, the third external pressure (green), "University Change and Administrative Measures," is a world-class university (high outcome / high) that maximizes outcomes that are expensive but have a high diploma brand and can play an active role in the world. It is the pressure of school expenses).With the development of each country in Asia and Africa, it is predicted that the world's leading universities with abundant finances will be scattered all over the world.High school students who are financially strong and motivated are more likely to study abroad at top universities overseas instead of at domestic universities.In addition, by promoting the oligopoly of world-class universities (which can be taken in VR with the evolution of science and technology) by utilizing hybrid online, which is expensive but has high outcomes, highly motivated students in Japan will be able to study abroad. You can either go to a university in Japan in the form of studying abroad, or you can get a diploma from a leading overseas university while you are in Japan.