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

Educational and cultural facilities are expected to serve as infrastructures in a lifelong learning society. There is a need to explore a new image of these facilities so as to enable them to serve as such infrastructures. To this effect, in 1988 the Ministry started a study project on making educational and cultural facilities more "intelligent" and published a report on this study in March 1990. The report defined "intelligent" educational and cultural facilities and their environments as: 1) facilities and environments which provide diverse Beaming activities; 2) comprehensive facilities and environments in which different units closely cooperate with each other; 3) facilities and environments which are furnished with information and communications equipment, as well as information processing functions; and 4) facilities and environments which are rich and comfortable. On the basis of this report, in 1990 the Ministry began to commission some local boards of education to carry out pilot studies on "intelligent" educational and cultural facilities.