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PART Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture

In the light of the Council's recommendations and of the Policy Guidelines for the Implementation of Educational Reform, the Ministry of Education. Science and Culture has been striving to implement relevant measures for educational reform.

In June 1990, the Ministry's Headquarters for the Implementation of Educational Reform reported on the "measures taken to meet the recommendations of the National Council on Educational Reform". The measures listed in this paper can be classified into: (1) amendments to laws, cabinet orders and Ministry regulations;(2) budgetary measures such as financial subsidies to prefectures and new budgets or increased budgets for specific programs; (3) innovations in the administration and management of various programs within the existing institutional framework or within the present budgets; and (4) consideration of specific ways and means by the Ministry's relevant committees to materialize rather general and abstract proposals by the Council.

For example, in the 118th session of the National Diet which was convened from 5 March 1990 until 26 June 1990, relevant laws were enacted or amended for the purposes of: the creation of a Japan Arts Fund; the creation of Hokuriku Graduate University of Advanced Science and Technology; and the development of relevant mechanisms for carrying out government policies for the promotion of lifelong learning.