PART Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 9 Information Oriented Society and the Education Sector
1 Overview of Government Policies
Now that various sectors of society have rapidly been becoming
information oriented, the education sector is no exception in the need to cope
adequately with this change. The Ministry has been taking a variety of measures,
focusing on: (l) the development of information literacy through both formal
and non-formal education; (2) the utilization of new information media for educational
purposes; (3) the training of experts who can lead people in an information oriented
society; and (4) the provision of more information equipment in educational and
cultural facilities, and the shaping of more information networks among these
facilities.