(3) The Basic Guidelines for the Reform of Higher Education
4. The Necessity of Making Higher Education Open to the General
Public and of Establishing a System of Certification
To allow all people in our future rapidly changing society to
receive education at any time and whenever necessary, higher education should
be made available not only to students in specific age groups or with particular
educational qualifications but also to the public at large. This means that it
should be made easy for all institutions of higher education to accept those
requiring re-education and also that educational opportunity should be expanded
by using methods other than those of the traditional credit system of school
education. It should also be made possible for these acquiring a certain number
of approved credits from various categories of institutions to be granted higher
education certificates.
As regards existing bachelor, master's and doctor's degrees,
it is necessary to consider the elimination or the simplification of the existing
classifications within each degree.
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