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TRENDSINEDUCATIONAL REFORM
Fundamental Conceptstoward Educational Reform
2. Unified Effort in Accordance with Administrative Reform,Fiscal Structural Reform,Economic Structural Reform
(3) Cooperation with Economic Structural Reform


As criteria for governmental policy operation concerning economic structural reform,the Program for Economic Structural Reform was decided by the Cabinet in December1996.Moreover in order to advance drastic economic structural reform both rigorously and swiftly,scheduled for2001and with more concrete measures,the Action Plan for Economic Structural Reform,in which a schedule for the advancement of future economic structural reform has been determined,was decided by the Cabinet in May1997.The Action Plan includes comprehensive measures for the creation of15new fields of indushy and the horizontal development of an environment to nurture human resources and technology.Among the measures related to educational reform,in particular reforms in university education and the advancement of scientific research conhibute greatly to the creation of new industry and reforms to the economic structure,through the nurturing of human resources and the improvement of the research and development environment;these have been incorporated into tbe Program and the Action Plan.In December1997,in order to make the contents of the economic structural reforms more thorough and to speed up the process,the Action Plan was steadily advanced and the implementation of as many programs as possible were accelerated,a follow-up was made to the Action Plan which included the addition of new measures,and a Cabinet decision was made.New measures incorporated in this followup include the recognition of transfer admissions of specialized training college graduates to universities,and the activation of research in national and other universities through the streamlined introduction of private capital.MESSC has been steadily fomulating related statutes,such as the bill to amend a part of the School Education Law and other related laws(June1998)and the bill related to the promotion of transfers of universities'technological research results to private enterprises(passed in April1998),and in the future will continue to positively address such issues as the advancement of joint research and deregulation.


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