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The first step of introducing the principle of competition among the universities is the appropriate evaluation of their educational and research activities. Currently, each university conducts self-monitoring and self-evaluation in various ways. For the improvement of educational and research activities, the proper functioning of a 'plan-do-see' cycle is essential.

  Each university is required to publish the results of its self-monitoring and self-evaluation. It is also a duty of each university to make efforts to ask audit by a third-party concerning the results of the evaluation.

  Examples of self-monitoring and self-evaluation in universities are as follows:

  As to the publication of the results of evaluation to society, some universities make effective use of websites, and visual presentation through graphs and figures.