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

In light of the Council's recommendations and 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. For example, with regard to recommendations whose implementation requires the establishment of new laws or amendments to existing laws, the Ministry has brought 16 bills to the Diet, of which 14 were enacted. In the123rd session of the National Diet, relevant laws were amended for the purpose of: creating a Center for National University Finance, establishing a special fund for facilities and improvements within the National Educational Institutions Special Account, etc.

The Ministry has also been making efforts to improve educational administration by issuing circulars to local boards of education, universities and other relevant institutions when necessary and requesting them to become actively involved in reform and by publishing various public relations materials.

As for the proposals by the council which need further consideration in terms of concrete policy or from a medium- and long-term point of view, the Ministry has requested its relevant councils to examine such matters systematically and has been implementing these proposals, one by one on the basis of deliberations by these councils.