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Chapter5   BUILDING A DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY IN THE TIMES OF INTELLECT
3   More Job Mobility among Teachers, etc.


In introducing management techniques based on private-sector concepts into national universities, an increase in the mobility of teachers is important. Each university has thus implemented a fixed term of office and open recruitment system. As of FY1998, more than 60% of full-time university teachers graduate from universities other than those they are working for.

  A fixed term of office is implemented at 118 national, public and private universities as of 2000. It must become widespread with the aim of accepting teachers with diverse characteristics from outside each university and thus helping activate the education and research of the university.

  An open recruitment system is useful in employing talented personnel with various backgrounds and experience as university teachers. The percentage of universities with this system was 50% (national 87%, public 66%, private 39%) in FY1991, and 62% (national 91%, public 86%, private 52%) in FY1999 ( Figure 1-5-3 : Universities with an Open Recruitment System in Teacher Employment). In addition, the National Institution of Informatics has been promoting the NACSIS Career Information Service, in which it gathers information regarding open recruitment for university teaching positions and puts the gathered information on the Internet.

Figure 1-5-3 Universities with an Open Recruitment System in Teacher Employment

Figure 1-5-4 Universities with a Fixed-term Teacher Employment System


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