(a) Graduate schools To ensure that students learn to think and perform logically within the context of a systematic edu cation, and that their course-work strengthens their ability to research independently, graduate scho ols must elevate and diversify their education and research. At the same time, in order to produce th e human resources needed in academic and industrial S&T in Japan, universities must enrich their education and research to foster students with a wide vision and a good balance of core skills and ap plication abilities. To this end, universities should plan special lectures featuring experts in the private sector, and should sponsor courses for emerging S&T fields, etc. To promote rapid S&T progress through world-class education and research, the government should equitably evaluate graduate schools and establish centers-of-excellence and prioritized resource all ocation for those schools showing exceptional innovative promise. At the same time, the government sh ould allow a wider range of graduate courses that produce experts in particular S&T fields. And scholarships or other financial support should be provided to help excellent students advance t o doctoral work without financial stress. Those forms of support that prove especially successful in producing excellent researchers should be highly evaluated.
(b) Faculties in universities and junior colleges Faculties in universities and junior colleges should enrich their general education curriculum in o rder to rapidly advance S&T through total management of the school. In technical training curric ula in specialized courses, schools should attach importance to principles and theories, thereby fost ering the ability of students to investigate and resolve their own subjects independently.
(c) Technical colleges and vocational schools Technical colleges should enrich their educational contents, improve job-training courses, and revi ew classes to meet social needs in consideration of S&T progress and industrial structural reform . Vocational schools should elevate their educational contents to promote more practical and vocation al training.
(d) High schools High schools should fulfill the goals of a scientific education through observation and experimenta tion, and should promote an industrial education correspondent with changes in society.