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CHAPTER 5 EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN THEl970's
3 Educational Reform in Japan
(2) The Basic Guidelines for the Reform of Elementary and Secondary Education
5. Maintaining and Improving the Standard of Public Education and Equality of Educational Opportunity


The government should reform the administrative and financial arrangements, which regulate education in order to ensure equality of educational opportunity with attention, in particular, to the following:

(1) Maintaining curriculum criteria and other educational standards at an adequate level, and improving them by continuous re-examination in response to social development.

(2) Preserving the public nature of private schools since they play an important role in public education, and improving their educational conditions to relieve students from the financial burdens of studying there.

(3) Making the conditions of study for young people already at work more flexible, to keep up with the diversification of employment opportunities.


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