CHAPTER EDUCATIONAL REFORMS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND THE FUTURE EDUCATION IN JAPAN
1 Main Trends of Educational Reforms in Major Countries
(2) Content of Educational Reforms
d Expansion of Higher Education
The wide spread of secondary education and the improvement of
living standards, have resulted in a great expansion of higher education. Moreover,
vast changes resulting from recent scientific and technological developments
require vast increases in the number of highly trained personnel. All these factors
have combined to effect a revolutionary revision in traditional concepts of higher
education.
Great efforts are now being made for the development of higher
education in most European countries where higher education was traditionally
reserved for the elite. For the development of higher education, such measures
have been taken as establishment of new universities, additional graduate courses,
new colleges, faculties and departments. Besides, the organization of education
and researches in new academic fields and the revision of departments and courses
of study are being actively undertaken. In the United States a large number of
new junior colleges have been established, and in the United Kingdom the status
of some of technical colleges has been raised to university level, also scholarship
programs have been enlarged in order to invite more capable students to universities.
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