PART Issues and Developments of Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 1. Promoting Educational Reform
3. The 14th Central Council for Education
In promoting educational reform based on the recommendations
of the National Council on Educational Reform, the Ministry of Education, Science
and Culture considers it important to examine the ways and means of education
in long range perspectives. The Central Council for Education is now deliberating
on "thereform of the educational system in response to the new age" with a broad
perspective.
The two main issues being deliberated by the Council concern
the reform of upper secondary education and its relationship to higher education,
and the building of infrastructures for a lifelong learning society. Reforms
of upper secondary education being discussed include a more flexible application
of the required length of upper secondary school studies, a reorganization of
the course systems, the use of a credit system and the encouragement of the establishment
of new type upper secondary schools. With respect to the building of infrastructures
for a lifelong learning society, a system to promote lifelong learning, provision
of information for learning, qualifications of specialists in lifelong learning,
private educational enterprises, and the establishment of "lifelong learning
centers" are being discussed.
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